Thanks Mikey. I'll refer to this if I need to. For now, things are "stable". I've been doing the salt and baking soda, said a few prayers and I'm hanging in there. We'll see what transpires. If it continues to niggle I will see the dentist, because I don't want to be an idiot about it, but I also would get him to remove a wee bit of the dental material that has closed off most of my ability to floss between that particular tooth and another tooth. I don't think it's helping because it could trap other stuff inside there for all I know.