basically..................4 years ago cracked a molar without knowing it, though the day it fell apart(6 months later) i knew the exact moment it had happened. anyways, being as i hate docs fooling with me and figured they would just yank the tooth(its about 1/2 gone above the gumline) and since there was no pain involved i said screw it and kept trucking along.
well since we now have health insurance that includes dental and the fact the wife needed wisdom teeth pulled and didnt want to go through hell herself she sent me to the local dentist to get something done about the tooth(she went to an oral surgoen 100 miles away)............
anyways local quack takes one look at my tooth, tweaks out, says i need antibiotics right away cause there is a granulnoma growing, and i need a root cannal immediatly but after an x-ray she says she cant do it and ill need to go out of town.........but she can do a crown afterwards. she asks how much it bugs me and i say it never hurts which evidently she didnt believe cause she perscribed me some 800mg ibuprophin for the pain along with the antibiotic.
now this granulnoma, i think shes nuts as its been their since day one that it was exposed and has actually shrunk over the last year, im pretty dang sure its just whats left of the nerve and blood supply to the tooth. i dont want to be taking antibiotics for nothing. not to mention she says its infected and i pretty dang sure it isnt cause #1 there is no bad taste in my mouth and #2 there is no pain or swelling or heat that would indicate there is an infection
reason 2 she torqued me off is he started lecturing me about my dental hygene habits and refused to let me get a word in edge wise. i know my problem isnt as bad as she says it is cause i can make all the plaque go away in less than a week. my problem is, and what she refused to listen to is that my gums bleed heavily after i brush my teeth and with in a week after i start brushing on a normal schedule again i get one big canker type sore along my gum line and i cant eat much due to the pain for 7-10 days let alone brush my teeth..........
so i think im going to can the antibiotics for now and drive the 100 miles one way to a different dentist, but would like to get a second oopinion on the likely hood as to weither she knows what she is talking about......