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Originally Posted by kane
The dentist told me if I waited too long that I could get an infection ( I think he called it a sepsis) and that I could lose the tooth or they would have to do a serious root canal to fix it and then cap the tooth.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis
Ouch. When I had to get a tooth extracted, the pain was pretty bad and the dentist said that if I had waited much longer, it would have been a medical condition, so maybe that's what he was talking about.