Hi Cooldown,
I said you shouldn't have HEALTHY teeth pulled and to seek a 3rd opinion.

Why can't you use your teeth? You didn't say. It sounds like the condition is permanent, but what is it? Have they decayed? Can they be reconstructed? Or do you have gums problems or both?

The name of the game as always is to take meticulous care of your teeth during and after radiation treatment. Besides the floride trays, my periodontist cleaned my teeth every 2 weeks during treatment and the dentist and the dental surgeon took care of bone chips that came through the gum that was trying to heal from a biopsy. I brushed regularly and took Salagen to help with saliva.

The hyberbaric treatments are meant to restore the blood supply to the bone. The condition you are talking about is probably osteoradionecrosis which is basically bone dying. And I was wrong in previous post, you don't need it for root canal(although the dr that had my teeth pulled said so), but you do for pulling teeth.

I don't know where you are being treated, but I would see a dentist that specializes in cancer patients to see what can be done. Caps might be a possibility if root are good.

Take care,
Eileen