Hi, yw! :)

I am not sure of the best thing to do in place of a root canal. I have heard of bridge or implant options with biocompatible materials (e.g. implant made with zirconium)... But I am not up enough on these things to be able to recommend what would be best. If you could find a biologic dentist that either does not do root canals OR has the best possible up-to-date procedure if he "does" do them, perhaps he/she would be in a much better position to advise what to do in this case.

You can find biologic dentists online and try emailing a few of them and see what they say. I am sure some will probably say that there is a way of doing root canals that is far better than procedures in the past, but frankly I am not sure whether it is truly possible to eradicate the risks...

But you could at least ask what the best possible replacement would be if someone had their root canal tooth removed. I wish I knew! There is always the risk that I will oneday end up in the same position as so many people are and I think I would be emailing many bio dentists online and doing a lot of searching on the net about it.

I went for my mercury removal haven't got to the root canal bit yet but the dentist started drilling my root canal while I was out of it - we had discussed him saving a new tooth which looked like it may need root canal treatment but I wanted the old tooth out. When he hit the guta percha which a vega test had showed me as having problems with (not sure how much I trust the vega test) I had a huge allergic reaction and my face blew up to 3 times the size - took 4 days to go down and now over a week and a half later my body is still covered in little spots and scabs from the reaction - the dentist thinks it was the gutta percha but he has sent me for blood tests before he does the next half of my mouth he had to bring me round half way through so we'll see if the gutta percha is a problem and it was in my mouth all this time!!!

I think it can harbor bacteria, but there is a newer material that is supposed to be better.