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?,