[Doitashi62]

Hello,

I have been viewing threads on this discussion board for the past three or so years since I learned on my own the hard way that my tooth #13 (root canal tooth/cracked), #3 and #14 were all badly abscessed and the direct cause of my chronic and worsening health issues for close to 30 years. Thanks to Bryanna and her very informative advice to other members, I have been able to research and pinpoint this problem with my health and overcome the challenges of navigating through the maze of dental specialists, etc. I learned that you have to be your own advocate not only with medical doctors but even more so with every dental specialist (know your complete history) to clean this mess up and start to recover. No one has your best interest at heart except yourself.

However, while recovering, I realized my wife was dealing with the same chronic health issues as I was. Lucky I have her medical and dental records for nearly 30 years. She already had 5 root canals by the age of 23 and three more over the next 20 years!! Surely only one or two of all of these root canaled teeth at the most had to be actually infected.

Long story short, even though we have both started to get some of this mess under control and cleaned up, we just learned that her root canal tooth #2 extracted in Nov 2014 (problem tooth since the 80s and root canal 17 years ago) has at least one if not two retained and badly infected roots and she was never informed of this by the OS. The PA x-ray still shows the infection above this tooth (root) #2 and a CBCT 3D scan last month shows at least one of these roots in the palatal area and possibly another in the mesial/buccal area of the socket.

She just went to a holistic dentist with this recent scan and PA x-ray and the dentist agrees with the report that there is some sort of sclerosis or "abnormal healing" in the socket ". He debrided the surface area/bone from #1 thru #5 (other teeth extracted prior) but did not attempt to look or to remove any roots in the #2 socket. He thinks this is probably not a root (s). With all of the issues we have dealt with I am sure I can see the infection in the sinus above where the root was (is) even again with sinus surgery after the extractions last year. 1" cysts were removed from each maxillary sinus but now there again is a cyst in the right sinus.

We have recently moved to another state from where the OS did the extraction one year ago. I am sure this has to be common complication with root canal extractions. Has anyone else experienced this issue, were you informed, and how or what type of specialist did you go if needed? It appears that the root (s)? are deeply embedded in the jawbone and my wife is still dealing with significant inflammation/symptoms caused by this remaining infection in the bone/sinus. I know there is not going to be an easy solution since it has been one year since the extraction.

I have PA x-rays from Oct 2014, Nov 2015 and Dec 2015 and can post if authorized for review.