92 and extraction, is it recommended

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My mother is 92 and her dentist says she should extract a tooth that is leaning against her 3 unit bridge. This tooth does not bother my mother. She switched toothbrush heads on her Oral B electric toothbrush and it has irritated the gum around it. She is really having an issue about this and I do not blame her. The dentist says she will need to take a tooth from her bridge as well and then make her a new bridge. If the tooth is not infected should she do this? If there was an infection shouldn't she have been given antibiotics?

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