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Years ago my dentist discovered I had a resorption of a tooth root. She burned away the gum and fixed it. She didn't want to do that to the second resorption, so I went to an endodontist who was able to drill the root and add material to make it stronger. That tooth lasted 5 years until it needed to be pulled. Now that I have these new resorptions, I'm wondering if I should be proactive and have root canals before it starts to hurt. Has anyone done that?

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Two of my resorptive teeth were identified on a routine bite wing x-ray. I went to a endodontist to see what if anything could be done. He said nothing could be done for those teeth. They’d likely crumble if he tried to do a root canal. He found a neighboring third tooth in its early stages, but only on a full mouth CT, so it didn’t show up on the bite wing. He did do a root canal on that and thinks the fix will be permanent. The endo advised me to have those other two out now, but the dentist says I can wait and watch, as long as there isn’t any exterior sore around the outside of the tooth that could become infected. My resorption is all interior. Hard to know what to do, but hard to have teeth pulled that don’t hurt!