<s>[INST] I am going to have an apicoectomy on tooth #6 in a few days. It has been abcessed for several months (4 bottles of amoxicillin and cypro) and nothing has helped. My biggest problem is this tooth & rest of my front teeth have been capped; and I am worried about losing one or more teeth. That, plus I have no clue what all he will do to seal & clean this abcess. He is an endodontist. YYYY@YYYY [/INST] Hello, Thank you for sharing your problem with Chat Doctor. Actually discectomy is a small surgery in which the dentist removes the infected part of tooth and does the proper filling in the tooth and seals it. The tooth is not removed in it. So you should not worry about losing of teeth or for the procedure as the dentist is an endodontist he will handle the procedure properly. Hope it will help you. </s>