R
raosulli
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Hello,
I have had extreme dental phobia since my divorce 10 years ago. Silly old me seems to have displaced all the trauma onto going to the dentist. The long and short of it is that I now have some work to get done...and I have a choice regarding my 2nd upper molar. The perio says that he can do deep cleaning and pocket reduction but he thinks it's very unlikely to save the tooth long term and IF it does I might have lots of sensitivity. The other option is to have it removed and that would leave me with my wisdom tooth and first molar and a gap where the second was. What is the best thing to do in this scenario and how would it be to have that gap if I had the tooth removed?
I have had extreme dental phobia since my divorce 10 years ago. Silly old me seems to have displaced all the trauma onto going to the dentist. The long and short of it is that I now have some work to get done...and I have a choice regarding my 2nd upper molar. The perio says that he can do deep cleaning and pocket reduction but he thinks it's very unlikely to save the tooth long term and IF it does I might have lots of sensitivity. The other option is to have it removed and that would leave me with my wisdom tooth and first molar and a gap where the second was. What is the best thing to do in this scenario and how would it be to have that gap if I had the tooth removed?