I can tell you from experience that an improperly done root canal can come back to bite you years later. Had one done by IHS[1] when I was in 6th grade. During my 1st year in college I woke up with mouth pain that was really, really bad. Had to get a parent to come get me and drive me to a dentist. He took x-rays and found out I had an infection growing since the initial root canal[2]. He prescribed antibiotics and a massive pain reliever (Percodan[3]). It took four weeks for the infection to go down enough for surgery. The doctor said it might come back because they might not get it all. It took two more operations (5 and 10 years later) to fix it all.
1) given what's happened to so many other people, I feel I got off cheap.
2) no, the IHS dentists did not see this growing and it was probably slowed by the multiple antibiotic prescriptions for step throat in high school.
3) Took it for two weeks, I'm still amazed I was functional enough to take tests and program. That stuff is a whole lot of don't care in one bottle.
understood. the procedure referenced above was from... gosh now, 9 years ago. no issues with it (I've had other teeth issues but not her fault). Wife had a bad root canal done by a 'fancier' place which went bad a few years later.
1) given what's happened to so many other people, I feel I got off cheap.
2) no, the IHS dentists did not see this growing and it was probably slowed by the multiple antibiotic prescriptions for step throat in high school.
3) Took it for two weeks, I'm still amazed I was functional enough to take tests and program. That stuff is a whole lot of don't care in one bottle.