Hi Bryanna, hope you're doing well.

I've started my journey of restoring my teeth today and a journey it is! I've actually come to Bangkok for my treatment as I have become totally frustrated and disheartened with the dental services in Australia.

Today was day 1. Saw three doctors in different fields.

My front top tooth started playing up about three weeks ago and became infected. The nerve system is intact so no requirements for RC discussion. I've been on antibiotics for about 3 weeks and although improved, it doesn't seem to clear up.

Full dental scan done today and two dentists gently advised me that the prognosis was not good and extraction is the only solution.

Then I had my final appointment with a lovely Periodontics doctor for deep scale/root cleaning. She had equipment I haven't seen before and basically sand blasted those little suckers.

Her diagnosis was that there is a chance of retaining this tooth. My little heart took a skip! There was a 6ml pocket and some bone loss along one side where the infection is. She numbed up the tooth and scaled up to 8ml and cleared all the stuff stuck to that root side and then debribed (is that the word?) irrigated the infection out as best she could.

The other side of the tooth has good bone connection and the gums have not receded at all.

She advised me to never again eat hard or sticky food as it could easily slide up and the problem will reoccur. She also suggested I stop taking the antibiotics because after 3 weeks they really hadn't fixed the problem. She advised me to se a qualified periodontics every 3 months for similar deep cleaning treatment, for the rest of time if the tooth stabilises. She feels confident the infection has now been cleaned out.

I'd be very keen to see what your thoughts are.

Tomorrow I see the implantologist for another round of options. Lucky me lol

Thank you Bryanna, appreciate all you answers to all who right you

Sue