I came across this forum while doing a google search, hoping someone can help me... sorry this might be a bit long.... 14 years ago as a teenager I had fallen while rollerblading and cracked two of my front teeth. They were root canaled and crowned. With tooth #9, the front tooth, I always had issues with how the crown came out and had it re-done a few times until 9 years ago a dentist was able to create the crown the way I wanted it, very natural looking. Then 4 years later I accidentally cracked the tooth while eating something and at the time did not have the money to re-do the entire crown again, so I had asked the dentist to just glue it back together, and it had been holding pretty strong. Well about 2 years ago I noticed a blister thing above that tooth, when I pressed on it, it popped... the xray at the dentist didn't show any thing, but she referred me to an oral surgeon. The oral surgeon said it was an infection that he would have to clean out via an apicoectomy. He said there was only about a 60% chance it would work and if it doesn't work we would have to pull the tooth and do an implant. My dentist wanted me to re-do the crown after the apico was done, but I was hesitant to pay for a crown if the apico failed and I would have to remove the tooth anyway. I got pregnant so I held off on any dental procedures for a while and now I am noticing a large hard lump above that tooth, its not like a puss filled blister like last time, its just really hard and appears to be larger in size. Now I am worried if this infection is spreading throughout my gums? I really hope its not cancer or anything like that... Do I go straight to the oral surgeon and ask about getting an implant done?