Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> The scans showed that she had a horrible abcess
> right where the tooth should have gone. It was so
> bad that she wouldn't have been able to eat they
> said, or quite likely drink. It was common
> practice to pull the tooth to relieve the pain,
> but, the Doctors pointed out that doing so would
> have released poisons into her body from the
> abcess and that is what most likely caused her
> death. So the tooth wasn't sitting around for
> years or anything like that. It was likely pulled
> a couple a days before she died.
>

Then that may well have been the actual cause of death, with cancer not far behind.