Bryanna, thank you for your information thus far. I'm trying to understand this fully so I can make an informed decision...You are saying that I need to have the infected tooth removed in order to be free of infection...but that I did remove #14 and right after that extraction procedure, I get an infection in a tooth that has never had any issues whatsoever. I don't even have a filling in # 13 and now it is presenting as infected. If I remove #13, what's to stop the infection from spreading to #12 or #11?