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Hi Bryanna and all--

I'm on my phone so I need to be brief but I can give lots more info later.

As you know I had major dental issues this year. First #19 RCT which I had extracted with great pain and long healing time.

Then unexplained pain and facial numbness around apicoectomy tooth #11--cause still unknown. Numbness/tingling spread to nose and upper lip and even right side a bit so it might not even be related to #11 but it's the best idea I have.

Now in these past 2 weeks--pain on #7 (not a RCT, a virgin tooth!)
#7 started to become painful to heat. It lasted awhile but would go away. Then it stopped going away and started hurting all the time. No cold issue. As a matter of fact if I touched the tooth with ice I did not feel anything. So back I went to the holistic dentist. They saw nothing on the CBCT scan. He thought (even though both him and I know I don't want RCTs) that I should see an Endo for eval. Saw endo today. He did periapical xray. Said no infection but tooth almost completely calcified with a very very blunted root (all my front teeth have short roots from earky and aggressive braces.). He did cold test with endo ice. I felt cold on all my other teeth but nothing on #7. He had a syringe of hot water, sprayed it on #7. Sharp pain! But resolved back to baseline (which is still pretty painful.)

He recommended RCT based on the results of the testing plus the calcification. He said nerve is irritated to the point of dying.

At this point even though I know RCTs are not ideal, I can't keep pulling teeth. With 19 gone, 11 maybe going, I can't lose another front tooth. I'm only 35. I'm worried about becoming a "dental cripple."

I don't understand why my teeth are having all these unrelated issues in unrelated quadrants. I don't know why a Virgin tooth would just start dying.

My options are now: 1.). Do the RCT using ozone supplied by my holistic dentist (they offer this service that my dentist brings over the ozone to endodontist. They said they do this a lot because many people choose RCT over extraction. I understand why, I'm in that boat.)
2.). Leave the tooth and live with the pain, see if it heals by itself? Is that possible? Endo says no, dentist said rare but maybe. Endo said no rush to do RCT because not infected but I will have to live in pain until then. I made an appointment for RCT with ozone in 5 days. I can always reschedule or cancel....

I'm lost. Just lost. Any advice would be helpful.

I don't have the copy of the xray as they said they would send it to me but I imagine forgot. I can get it and post it on Monday. But if you had advice before then I would be SO grateful.

I leave town to fly across the country in 2 weeks to further complicate things and I stay for 2 weeks in NJ. I do not want to have complications when I am over there from the flight if I choose to wait. I'm scared. And I would greatly appreciate help.

I am very informed about RCTs I have read every link and book you suggest. But I feel like I have to take in my own circumstances to account too and make hard decisions. I don't want to have missing front teeth, especially multiple ones!!!

Also pain on 7 is quite bad. It eclipses the pain on 11. It's hard to live with it like I'm living with the pain on the other side. I wondered if it was referred but they tell me "pain can't cross the midline."

And to make matters worse, my dentist is on vacation starting today! But his assistant is still in the office. She's very nice. She would be bringing the ozone if I chose to do the RCT.