Any dentists around-dd1 needs apicoectomy

[WellThatsLife]

Dd1 fell when she was 9 and badly damaged her 2 front teeth which subsequently died. She has had root canal treatment on both but unfortunately now has a infection in one of the teeth. It first flared up 4 weeks ago, was given amox and referred to hospital for possible apicoectomy.

The infection appeared to settle down but has now recurred, she is on a seven day course of metronidazole, but she is now in bed unable to sleep because of the pain. The dentist today said that it could take quite a while to see the specialist as one has retired and the other is close to retirement, no one else has been recruited and they are managing on locums.

As you can imagine I am concerned about this, the pain when it flares up is considerable and inspite of me dosing her up on ibuprofen and paracetamol it is getting her down even though she seems to have ahigh pain threshold, she actually said to me today that there is no point in fussing unless it gets unbearable as I can't do anything.

My other concern is that if this infection continues and isn't cleared, will it spread?

We can't be referred to another hospital as we live on an island and there is only one hospital(crown dependency with separate nhs). I just don't want to see her suffering like this and don't know what to do and how concerned I should be about complications/ the infection spreading

[MillyMollyMardy]

The recommendation for a failed root canal treatment would be to get the root treatment redone before apicecting as the success rate of re-root treatment will be higher than apicecting.

The infection would not normally affect the other teeth and if it spreads it normally comes forward on the front two incisors.


However specialist endodontics is not usually available on the NHS.

How old is your daughter now?