Hi Vowel Lady,

First of all, if your blood work was done anytime during the course of the antibiotics or even within several days after you stopped taking the antibiotic, your test results may not be accurate. Which means they should be repeated to check for inflammation and infection.

You said you're having weird dental problems..... are you referring to just the right side of your mouth or elsewhere?

The problem with tooth #31 had several contributing factors....

...The tooth was obviously broken down/decayed underneath the onlay which then required a bit more drilling away of tooth structure to place a crown on it. This could have resulted in trauma to the nerve which would cause the pain that you described. The fact that the new crown would break repeatedly indicates a problem with the way the tooth was prepared by the dentist and/or the way the top teeth occluded into this tooth.. meaning the occlusion (bite) is too strong on this tooth. So adjustments needed to be made to the top teeth to allow for a better fit.

Root canal therapy only made matters worse because it just causes more inflammation to an already inflamed tooth and the bacteria left behind in the tooth after this procedure sets up for a nice infection. So if you think about it... Tooth #31 had decay in it, then it was repeatedly drilled on, then the root canal added more insult to injury... therefore it was festering from the onset of the decay until it was removed.

I'm thinking your ongoing fever and other physical symptoms are not just related to #31 but also to the root canaled tooth in front of it tooth #30. The fact that the root canal filling is now exposed is not the real problem... the fact is that #30 is also infected as all root canaled teeth are and the trauma to #31 and that surrounding area of bone has stirred up the bacteria that's been living in an around tooth #30.

In all fairness to you, when #31 was being evaluated for a new crown... for the root canal.... and for the extraction... each one of your treating dentists should have been diagnosing #30 as well. Root canals are not able to cure infected teeth they simply allow a person to "retain" an infected tooth for an undisclosed amount of time. The the older the root canal, the more the tooth is infected.

Placing bone graft material in an area of jawbone that is not healthy can cause systemic symptoms..... referred pain to areas unassociated with the original site, fever, malaise, elevation in BP, etc.

Have you had any dental scans other than regular xrays?

Bryanna