Welcome danieldemaree.

Brianna will be along to help.

Hi Dan,

I am in the dental field and can offer you some information here. I will inform you ahead of time that what I am going to tell you may conflict with what your dentist has told you. I will re post some of your thread and answer you in bold type. Makes it easier to follow.

<<I have total 2 root canals, in #6 and in#8, dentist says 8 looks all ok but 6 the canine has the round ball of infection on top>>

IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT ALL ROOT CANALED TEETH, IRRELEVANT OF SYMPTOMS OR NOT, ARE INFECTED. THEY ALL HAVE MANY HUNDREDS OF TINY DENTIN TUBULES WHICH ARE MICROSCOPIC AND THEY CONTAIN DEAD INFECTED NERVE TISSUE. THIS IS WHY ALL ROOT CANAL TEETH REMAIN INFECTED IRRELEVANT OF WHAT PROCEDURE IS DONE TO THEM.

<< I fill a little fistula inside my nostril that grows when I have 1 or 2 times a week like a one day cold (like an allergy attack) with sniffing, mucus, headache, etc and that little fistula grow little more and comes down after, but now I'm having itchy nose and eyes every morning for several ours, etc>>

IT IS NOT A GOOD THING TO HAVE THIS ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN FISTULA IN YOUR NOSE. THIS INDICATES THE INFECTION HAS SPREAD BEYOND THE ROOT OF THE TOOTH. WHEN THE FISTULA SWELLS IT IS FULL OF PUS.. WHEN IT GOES DOWN THAT INDICATES THE PUS HAS FOUND A PLACE TO EMPTY INTO. THIS IS NOT HEALTHY AT ALL. IF YOU KEEP THIS TOOTH, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE CHRONIC INFECTIONS IN YOUR SINUSES.

<<So the dentist said the rc wasn't done right it wasn't filled,>>

IT IS IRRELEVANT IF THE RC WAS DONE GOOD, BAD OR INDIFFERENT. IT IS IRRELEVANT IF THE CANALS WERE FILLED COMPLETELY OR NOT. THE PROBLEM IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROCEDURE, IT IS BECAUSE THE DENTIN TUBULES ARE INFECTED, INFLAMED AND CONTAIN DEAD NERVE TISSUE.

<<that can be corrected and that the out side of the toot, with the root, doesn't communicate with the inside tubules so he can redo it right for the infection to desapear.>>

THE DENTIST IS REFERRING TO A SURGICAL PROCEDURE CALLED AN APICOECTOMY. THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SURGICAL ROOT CANAL. IT DOES NOTHING MORE THAN A CONVENTIONAL ROOT CANAL AND IT DOES NOT TOUCH THE DENTIN TUBULES WHICH IS WHERE THE INFECTION IS COMING FROM. TO JUST REMOVE THE FISTULA DOES NOT CURE THE INFECTION BECAUSE THE BACTERIA IS COMING FROM INSIDE THOSE TUBULES. THE FISTULA WILL RE OCCUR AFTER THIS SURGERY AND THE INFECTION WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD FURTHER.

<<I understand with you that the only way would be extracting the toot but can you give me your opinion of what the dentist believes?>>

THE DENTIST IS WELL AWARE OF ALL OF THE THINGS THAT I HAVE TOLD YOU HERE. HOWEVER, HE IS TRAINED TO "RETAIN" OR "KEEP" TEETH IRRELEVANT OF THE INFECTION. HE IS NOT TRAINED TO REMOVE TEETH THAT HE FEELS HE CAN PERFORM ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES ON. HE KNOWS THE ONLY CURE TO THIS INFECTION IS REMOVE THE SOURCE OF THE INFECTION WHICH IS THE TOOTH AND THAT EXTRACTION OF THIS TOOTH IS INEVITABLE.

<< If I take out my canine would my lower face look unsimetric? (I Have a bridge between 6 and 8)>>

TEETH #6 AND 8 ARE UPPER ANTERIOR TEETH. YOU HAVE A THREE UNIT BRIDGE FROM 6 TO 8, CORRECT? ARE YOU MISSING #7? DID YOU HAVE AN ACCIDENT OR WERE THE TEETH BADLY DECAYED?

<< After about 9 years that start this problem I'm really tire and sick of it, can you please give me your advise? Thank you so much. >>

THE HEALTHIEST OPTION FOR YOU IS TO REMOVE ALL SOURCES OF THE INFECTION WHICH IS TO REMOVE THE ROOT CANALED TEETH, BOTH OF THEM. REPLACEMENT OPTIONS WOULD BE A LONGER SPAN PERMANENT BRIDGE FROM #5 THROUGH #10 OR 11. ANOTHER OPTION MIGHT BE A REMOVABLE PARTIAL DENTURE WHICH WOULD REPLACE ANY OTHER MISSING TEETH IN YOUR UPPER ARCH. DENTAL IMPLANTS WOULD BE RISKY BECAUSE CHANCES ARE YOU NOT GOING TO HAVE HEALTHY OR ADEQUATE BONE IN THE AREAS OF #6,7 AND 8.

Hi Brianna thank you so much for your replay about the issue I'm passing trough, about the 7th toot it was taken off about 27 years ago to instal the bridge, they were perfectly healthy, not bad, just the 7th was kinda semi out of place, but I think I was stupid giving up the pressure of my ex wife on that time to fix it, I was in the playing music thing so she was telling and telling me to do it, and dentist said all was going to be ok, but years later they were decaying, so took the bridge out and root canaled and since then my health has been poor, So I'm repented now but is to late for that. I'm glad to see now this post I was waiting from you, thank very much for it, tomorrow afternoon is the day going to dentist for the RC but I won't do it so I'm taking out the toot.
Do you think in next months after new bone grows there ill be ready for implants, if this is not another new nightmare?
Do you think, even that he's saying that #8 r canal is done great, is giving me some kind of trouble, but no infection showing in the r graphs? Thank you a lot

Hi Brianna thank you so much for your replay about the issue I'm passing trough, about the 7th toot it was taken off about 27 years ago to instal the bridge, they were perfectly healthy, not bad, just the 7th was kinda semi out of place, but I think I was stupid giving up the pressure of my ex wife on that time to fix it, I was in the playing music thing so she was telling and telling me to do it, and dentist said all was going to be ok, but years later they were decaying, so took the bridge out and root canaled and since then my health has been poor, So I'm repented now but is to late for that. I'm glad to see now this post I was waiting from you, thank very much for it, tomorrow afternoon is the day going to dentist for the RC but I won't do it so I'm taking out the toot.
Do you think in next months after new bone grows there ill be ready for implants, if this is not another new nightmare?
Do you think, even that he's saying that #8 r canal is done great, is giving me some kind of trouble, but no infection showing in the r graphs? Thank you a lot

More details The little fistula that grow more and less I see is on top of the supposedly good root canal that is the no. 8 toot I think, so in no. 6 is a clear infection up going and in 8th no infection in r graph but the fistula appears in the very top, is what I see, so would you think the fistula is coming from the "good" RC? Thank you

danieldemaree,

As I have explained earlier, there is no GOOD root canal tooth. Meaning... with or without symptoms or pathology ALL root canaled teeth are infected.

Fistulas are common with root canaled teeth because a fistula is a LATE symptom of a chronic infection. A fistula occurs when the area of infection has become large, deep and overwhelmed with bacteria. Re treating this tooth with another root canal or having a surgical root canal procedure called an apicoectomy will not cure the infection that lives inside of this tooth and inside the jaw bone.

The only way to attempt to cure the infection is to remove the source of the infection which is the tooth.

I hope I was able to convey my explanation well enough and the information is helpful to you.

Hi Bryanna, I had two root canals done both on the second molars on the bottom teeth.

One of them developed a fistula a couple of years after the rootcanal was done. The other one has been fine and pain free. The Dentist said the fistula may be from micro fractures due to my bruxism. The fistula comes and goes on the same area.

I am 29, Are there other options than to extract the tooth with the fistula ? Thank you for all the information you have posted already.