Boy, did they see YOU coming!!! That so angers me when they see a woman coming. I'm glad you went to your original dentist.

I had the same thing happen to me. My front tooth had an abcess. The dentist I was going to was a sailing buddy of my then fiance'. He told me I had two options - a root canal or have the tooth pulled. This was a front tooth we were talking about. I told him I'd have to seriously thing about it. I went to a woman dentist who used to be his associate. She injected my gums with an antibiotic which got rid of the abcess. She told me that I have bone loss in the tooth and to be careful. That was over 20 years ago. I still have my original tooth.