John's oncology dentist at the cancer centre, who he's been seeing every few weeks for about the last 8 months, has told him he needs a root canal. It's on the opposite side from his tumour site so he received less radiation on that side but still had some.

The oncology dentist seems to think it would be fine for our regular dentist to perform the root canal. Although we've gone to the same guy for about 10 years, I recently switched to a wonderful new dentist because he insisted he could do a root canal for me and then the freezing wore off and because he was not a root canal specialist, he could not give me any other more comprehesive type of anesthetic.

My main question is has anyone on the site had a root canal performed post chemo-radiation? It seems like it would be a bigger deal than the dentist at the cancer centre is making it because of the changes in the bone due to radiation. ON the other hand, he's very experienced in this area - in his late 50s and only works out of the cancer centre. Not sure why he's not suggesting doing it himself.

Mary