What might you do?

My sister had a root canal done couple months ago. (Just the first part when they extract the nerve) They could not do the final sealing of it because it started hurting. They said it can't be inflamed, hurting or tender to completely finish the crown part.
They believe because her diabetes has been so irregulated, it's causing the tooth not to heal.
She has two choices, have the tooth extracted or see if they can retreat it.

She's going to talk with the doctor tomorrow about the pros and cons of either choice. In the meantime what would you do?

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twiigss · M

Root canals are serious stuff! When I had mine done, the guy used so much novacaine that just about the side of my face was entirely numb, I could feel pressure almost in my eye, and nose was going numb, but the guy did amazing work.

My only fear is after 5 years it fell out with the post, took it to my new dentist and he was able to replace the post and crown. My fear is that he didn't entirely clean it out before reinserting the post so yeah that's where I'm at with that.