Re: Another question - retreatment of root canal

From: W_B (no_one_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:45:24 GMT

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:51:21 GMT, Discordia <goaway@you.net> wrote:

>One of the things I'm looking at very shortly is getting a tooth that
>I had a root canal done on seven years ago "surgically retreated".
>Now, the cost of doing this, with the crown works out to around
>$2500cdn. The cost of an implant is around $2900cdn. I'm told that
>the retreated tooth should last my lifetime, I suspect the same could
>be said of the fake tooth.Which is the better option?

Increasing the number of procedures done on any single tooth
decreases the likelyhood of sucessfully retaining that tooth.

Without an xray this is just a supposition and a rule of thumb.

Many here would advocate the implant. 

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