OMG! Thats horrible! Its not fair that we need to go through all this! Yes, I surely made my decision. I was told that this tooth was #18 2nd Molar. They've done numerous studies where they actually found that there has not been any change ("following extraction all clinical parameters seem to be unchanged") Like I said, I'm NOT a dentist, but I am a medical student in the process of getting my MD/PHD and I don't ever make any type of medical decisions lightly. I do have multiple family members who have had to have the exact same tooth pulled (lucky for them, they went straight to the extraction and didn't even bother spending a small fortune on "trying to save the tooth" as every single dental professional out there would advise..regardless of the situation..afterall..(as I'm SURE my fellow sufferers will agree they have probably heard THIS statement uttered by more than one dentist while trying to decide on a plan of treatment) "Don't you want to try to KEEP ALL YOUR TEETH!") and years later, they still have NO problem with the jaw, the teeth or anything else. There is only my mother in law that actually DID try to save the tooth and went through MAJOR steps to do so, even to the point they operated through the gumline. Yet, in the end... she had it extracted. I was there when the specialist TRIED to say they couldn't see a problem, yet all she had to do was lightly press on a specific area of the gum of the tooth and green pus literally sprayed out...its amazing what they will say when they just don't know how to fix the problem..all of a sudden, the problem either does NOT exist OR it's a different problem which needs a DIFFERENT type of specialist (see "the handoff" LOL)
So, yes, I don't think I have any reservations about pulling this darned tooth. I don't think I'd consider drilling into my jaw bone for an implant either, it's just not natural and I can bet you all anything, if there are problems that might result from THAT, I'd surely get them, and from THAT type of thing, you cant recover..bone does NOT grow back.
Well, you know what peoples court always says... "The Cheap comes out expensive" LOL
Although I'm surprised, my mother in law SWEARS by the dental school teaching hospital she goes to and says she wouldnt go anywhere else. That is over in Kansas. I do know that certain areas, there isn't enough money in the world for you to let me let anyone even so much as practice giving me an IV.
I'd probably try to get in somewhere else, get a few XRays to see if they can see any type of decay/bacteria around the crown of the other root canal, in alot of the cases, the crown wasn't done correctly in which it lets in the bacteria and builds up. Make sure you SEE the xrays, these things are not easily missed, it will look like a dark blob or ball, look for it just under the white top of the crown on the xray and look for it at the very tip of the root. whats your next step?