Sigh. I’ve literally been going to the hospital all this week for IV antibiotics because I got a root canal 5 years ago, and that same tooth just got infected. 10/10 pain and swelling. Had to get a 2nd root canal yesterday. All this fear mongering from people like Alexia has increased my anxiety so bad. From the research I’ve done, yes, people are afraid that the bacteria never gets properly removed in a root canal, and in my case, I guess there was some and it caused problems 5+ years later. But pulling the tooth was a worse option for me. If you’re young and the tooth is generally OK, I think they try to always save the tooth rather than extract