NeuroTalk Support Groups - yet another root canal question for Bryanna

nukuspot,

The endodontist says this looks fine because there is no obvious cyst or massive area of pus around the tooth. This tooth looks like it had a root canal and to a dentist this is the way it is suppose to look.

Because you are complaining about pain in or near this tooth, the only option, other than extraction, that he knows to offer you is to do another apico. He is right that the MTA is irritating to the bone, but any material that is jammed in the bone is going to be irritating.... irrelevant of what that material is. Re surgerizing and exchanging one material for another does not alter the anatomy of this tooth or alter the anatomy of the bundles of nerves and vessels that surround this tooth. The problem you have is not about the filling material.... it is the tooth and the lack of vitality and all that goes with that.

Bryanna

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Originally Posted by nukuspot (Post 1163383)

and...because you have been helping me with my saga about #11---here is the one the new endo took on #11. He said it looks fine but his idea was that the MTA at the root end filling could be irritating. He wanted to re-apico and replace the MTA with something called endo-cal (I think). For me, I am not that interested in that idea but I do like to know all my options. I would most likely extract over a re-apico at this point. But I am still waiting to see the dentist who would be doing an extraction and implant on #11 to consult with him to see if I am even a candidate for implant at that site. If not, my only option may be to try the re-apico, though that would be less than ideal. Anyway, that is beside the point because that is not the burning issue at the moment (what to do about #7 is...see other thread.) I thought you might want to see the new xray of #11.