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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Massageman · 70-79, M

Pull it. Make sure that an ORAL SURGEON gives the anesthetic and can hit the right nerve to do the block. I went to a place where the son of the owner- a periodontist- couldn't hit my nerve for all the tea in Ceylon, even though he had x-rays, a complete panoramic jaw scan, and two visits to try. In desperation on a third visit, he mentioned it to the Oral Surgeon who casually said "let me give it a shot" (no pun intended), and with NO X-rays, NOT seeing the panorama, NEVER having examined my mouth, hit the nerve on the first shot and I was numb in less than a minute!!!