I had decades worth of crud drilled out of my jaw in the summer and autumn because of wisdom tooth extractions in which the dentist left parts of the periodontal ligament in the jaw. The cavitations are slow, and erode the bone over time, without pain. So the person doesn't know they're there, usually, until surgery is needed.
For more information, see http://www.dentalhelp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=whatiscavitation Nenah ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 5:18 PM Subject: CS>Root Canals -------------- Original message from His Child <[email protected]>: -------------- > Hi MA, You get all the foreign material that they stuff into the canal cavity removed, along with the > rotting ligaments and parts of previously healthy tissue and jaw bone that have necrotized in the toxic > environment of the root canal. Also know as cavitation cleaning. **** Hi His! Good grief. What in the world did your dentist do to you? I had a root canal more than 35 years ago. It has given me no trouble. What remains of that tooth supports a crown, which looks pretty nice -- although the original crown has been replaced once. If you have a root canal removed, then you lose the usefulness of that tooth altogether, don't you? MA (who probably has a couple more root canals in her future, as thirty-year old silver fillings are beginning to fail and the dentist won't replace them with composite) :-(
