Dentists have a habit of making really quite invasive work sound routine. I had a root canal, re-treatment by specialist and expensive crown and the tooth is still niggling. Funnily enough, many people I know had/have problems with root canal teeth yet the marketing hype (and that’s what most dental advise is these days) say it’s a 90% successful procedure. Go online and find forums where loads of people have been made ill or in pain by root canals. I’m not even talking about the controversial ‘root canal dangers’ stuff from ‘biological dentists’ - I’m talking regular flare-ups and frequent reinfections.

Oh, and do you know why I got a root canal? A dentist drilled into a tooth that felt fine and it abscessed two weeks later.