Hello, I just had a filling done, and an old filling repaired on adjacent teeth three weeks ago. They started hurting two weeks ago, it is painful to eat and tapping on the tooth is painful. I was given antibiotics and ibuprofen for the pain and scheduled for a root canal treatment. My last one was extremely painful and resulted in an extraction anyways, so I was looking at some information on here and on the web, and I am starting to see some alarming warnings about root canal treatments.
The root canal is to be done on the tooth next to my missing tooth (coincidence?), and then topped with a crown.
I am seeing some warnings to avoid root canal treatments, that the drilling doesn't sanitize the tooth, and basically a dirty dead tooth is left in the body which might have a correlation to autoimmune diseases, cancer, and a host of other fun things. http://articles.merc...20218_DNL_art_1
anyways... I am concerned as I have never heard any of this before, and most of the crown options seem to have some serious downsides; either mercury amalgram leaking toxic mercury, some sort of BPA mix, or metal toxicity risks. What are the best type of crowns? Zirconia seems to be the best but its quite expensive...
Thanks for any thoughts/help.