Hi Bryanna,

After reading your forum with all the great information, I decided to have my infected root canal extracted. To give a little history, This tooth has been bothering me for years and felt weird around the gum (just slightly). My new Dentist at the time (Different dentist did the root canal back in 2007ish) said to just keep an eye on it... that it might just be scar tissue from the root canal procedure.?.?

This last month it started bothering me bad, she did a new X-Ray (I have pictures but can't post them yet until I post 10 messages??) you can clearly see the infection. She recommened an Endodontist to perform an Apicoectomy.

After reading about root canals, I decided to have it Extracted by a good Oral Surgeon and a Bone Graft done. They use the good Equimatrix materials. I was also on Amoxicillin for a good 7 days before the procedure and required them to keep me on it for another 5 days.

It has been day 2 and everything is going well with almost no pain. I'm glad I got the bone graft because today I noticed a little blood clots when blowing my nose and pretty sure the procedure perforated the sinus.

I will keep you all posted on how it turns out and may eventually get an implant. Thanks for all the good info.