I thank you for your replies. Trapper, how would I desensitize the tooth? Its got the crown on it so that does inhibit me from getting a topical in through the top. I actually see that it wiggling a bit, probably from all the pounding it took. The rest of my teeth are pretty solidly in place.(thanks to oil pulling) I like my dentist-it's a biological office and she helps support my missions to Africa each year. I hate to think she's motivated by greed. I read that V puts the IP6 directly on his tooth-I will try that too.