My tooth has been through a lot – pain, infection, chipped – but I don’t like the though of having it removed. Any other options?

Q. I had a white filling placed in a molar tooth approximately 4 years ago. Immediately afterwards I had some pain with this tooth and occasional (not major) pain over the following year. My dentist, however, said it was fine. Then last year I had considerable pain with this tooth. I went to the dentist, was told it was infected, given antibiotics, the filling was removed and antibiotic matter placed inside & a temporary filling. This developed into quite a major abscess and I think had a further course of antibiotics and then had root canal undertaken. Recently a part of this front, side, of this tooth chipped away. The dentist suggested it be crowned (he had mentioned this before as something I could consider doing) but he said he thought there may be a fracture in the tooth, and told me to wait two weeks. When I returned he said he believed the tooth should be removed. By then, I began getting some slight pain…this however was a week ago, (no antibiotics were prescribed) and the pain has worsened. I am very unhappy at the thought of having a tooth removed… are there any other options?,
A. If you’re still in pain and the root canal treatment is successful then it sounds like the tooth has fractured. If this is the case then removal sounds like your only option. You could ask him about replacement of the tooth with an implant or a bridge once the area has healed??
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