Marshur,

I have no idea if you have periodontal problems or not as I can only go by what you have written here. Which is..... <<One dentist says you need a deep scaling but you refuse because "you" think it isn't necessary and you are afraid to have it done. The other dentist has not even mentioned your gum health.>> Perhaps he hasn't because he feels you don't want to address it?
None of this makes sense as to whether your gums are healthy or not. If they aren't healthy then your dental treatment will not have a long life span irrelevant of what you do in the upper right quadrant of your mouth. There is no way anyone can determine if tooth #4 should come out or not if you have an untreated periodontal condition. Also, if I am not mistaken.... it is only now that you mention you had a problem with the #3 site after the extraction and continue to have on going pain there. So if that is the case... then it could be a bone infection and the pocketing on #4 could just be an additional irritant.

If you have not done so already.... you need to have a full comprehensive examination and full mouth series of xrays with your dentist and allow him to give you his findings irrelevant of what they are because otherwise you are just going to continue on this expensive path to nowhere.

I cannot offer you any suggestions or recommendations to help alleviate your dental pain because I don't know the extent of your dental problems and it sounds like you may not know what they are either.

I hope your dentist can help you straighten this out and things work okay for you.

Bryanna


QUOTE=Marshur;996254]I did not have the deep cleaning done because I do not believe that will help, and I do not believe I have a gum disease. I only have this one problem in that one area, at tooth number 4, and it all happened when tooth number 3 was extracted. The hole would not heal up, so after about a month, he went back in it and "cleaned it out" after that, that is when this pocket formed and has been giving me bad discomfort every since. Its been about a year and a half now.

I switched to another dentist, because the other one treated me like he could not understand that there was even a pocket there, and there should be no reason why I should even be in pain or discomfort. I got the feeling that he was tired of me and that there was nothing else he could do for me. The oral surgeon is the one that told me that I had a pocket of about 5mm and that a bridge covering the area should help it. But it did not help at all.

I asked the new dentist to remove tooth number 2 because it was giving me pain. When is was out, the dentist said it probably had a hair line fracture causing the pain.

The new dentist has not said anything about the health of my gums. I think they are okay. It is just that one place at tooth #4. Right now I have a temp crown on tooth #4.

What is going to fix my problem? Get #4 pulled also??

Also, I can not take any pain medicine because of a stomach ulcer I have. Is there anything else I could take that would help me go thru dental work pain?[/QUOTE]