Dental implant while costly are wonderful if you have sufficiently dense jawbone, they feel like a real teeth.

My dentist also told me that tooth extraction is a last-ditch effort. But that come sooner than you would like; after one rounds of antibiotics, if the pain come back but there are no apparent mechanical defect in the tooth yet the roots are blurry on the x-rays, the probability that a root canal treatment would be successful is quite small and extraction followed by an implant is your best bet.

Thank you for insight. Perhaps I heard or understood wrong. Almost sure I was not prescribed antibiotics before extraction that time but to be fair I may be forgetting, it was 4-5 years ago. I guess an implant becomes difficult after so long but I should look it up and see what dentists around say probably.

I’m missing quite a few teeth not mostly biologically but had two that grew in weird and had to be extracted. Found an amazing dentist that’s on the local board and they’re not pushy about implants but does say don’t wait too long since it’ll end up costing more if the other teeth move. He’s also managed to save a tooth my last dentist absolutely demolished trying to put a crown on it.

It’s hard to shop around for dentists but when you find a good one it’s life changing.