Hi Chris,

Thank you for your kind words. I try to help as much as I can.

I have a sense that you already know what I am going to say but......
The only way to remove the infection is to remove the source...... which is the tooth. As long as you have the tooth, irrelevant of what is done to it, you will have the infection.

There is access to the tiny canals inside of the tooth. Therefore there is no way to clean them out meaning they will always harbor necrotic nerve tissue. This bacteria eats through the tooth and the ligament and travels into the jawbone. Based on your description, the bacteria has already proliferated into the jawbone. To have an apicoectomy done... this is a barbaric surgical procedure in which a window is made in the jawbone above the tooth and the infected cyst is somewhat scraped out.... does nothing to cure the infection inside of the tooth. So the method of "cleaning it out" via an apicoectomy is useless, painful and very expensive. In fact the apico actually causes further trauma, injury and inflammation in the already diseased jaw bone.

I know this is not what you had hoped to hear...... however, it is the truth of the matter and your dentist may or may not inform you of this at this time. Usually a dentist will inform the patient about this after the procedure fails. I know that's not comforting to hear..... but again it's the truth.

You said you have done some research on root canals.... have you seen this article by Dr Mercola??

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...ot-canals.aspx

We're here if you have more questions....
Bryanna