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blu
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Hi, I' new to this forum. I had a bad experience with wisdom teeth extraction when I was younger, reacted to the strong antibiotics and was knocked out for ages. Now I had a porcelain fused crown fitted on 1st upper molar, which never settled 100%, and bit on something hard in December and had pain on biting. Took amoxillian from the dentist and the biting pain has subsided but there is now swelling around the gum. I'm assuming an abscess, though no head. My NHS dentist advised more antibiotics, ciprofloxin, which I was just too scared to take due to previous bad experience.
I paid for a second opinion who took an xray and said it needs root canal and the crown behind is also decaying so I would need 2 crowns. He pointed to the infection being between molar 1 and 2.
I showed the xray to my usual dentist who says best thing is to extract the tooth. He says he can see a crack in molar 2 and sees infection between molar 1 and tooth in front. I'm utterly confused as it seems like they have totally differing views of the xray.
I'm tending to just pulling it as then the problem would be solved, and I'm not keen on the root canal failing and having this constant anxiety if its infected or not. However further to this I started googling about sinus perferation as I have bad sinus issues on this left side, possibly caused by the tooth or a deviated septum. I've even had a camera check this sinus in panic last month, they said nothing bad.
I'm actually not really functioning by now in worry about making the wrong decision. Is this normal to have such differing views on an xray? Is there anyone here who can tell me what they think about the xray?
I paid for a second opinion who took an xray and said it needs root canal and the crown behind is also decaying so I would need 2 crowns. He pointed to the infection being between molar 1 and 2.
I showed the xray to my usual dentist who says best thing is to extract the tooth. He says he can see a crack in molar 2 and sees infection between molar 1 and tooth in front. I'm utterly confused as it seems like they have totally differing views of the xray.
I'm tending to just pulling it as then the problem would be solved, and I'm not keen on the root canal failing and having this constant anxiety if its infected or not. However further to this I started googling about sinus perferation as I have bad sinus issues on this left side, possibly caused by the tooth or a deviated septum. I've even had a camera check this sinus in panic last month, they said nothing bad.
I'm actually not really functioning by now in worry about making the wrong decision. Is this normal to have such differing views on an xray? Is there anyone here who can tell me what they think about the xray?