Hi Snoopy,
Thanks for answering. I'm not sure what you mean by: What eventually happened? but the cat first came in several years ago. She was live trapped with her kittens along with another mom and her kittens. We believe they were all related. The kittens with the exception of 2, all eventually found homes. 2 are chronically infected with an upper respiratory virus (probably herpes). The 2 moms were spayed and we were going to put them on a farm when one started having problems with chronic-immune related gingivitis. To make a long story short, eventually the teeth were removed and after treating some infections and fatty liver she was fine. About a year later, the cat I'm presently posting on started to also have problems with gingivitus. She also when through a dentistry (although not as severe, they were able to leave her canines) and we thought she was fine. By this time we felt it best to hang on to them rather than send them to a farm, toothless. Then in the spring, this one went off her food and we trapped her and took her into the vet, where they sedated her to find that the back of her mouth was severe with gingivitus, they however detected no infection. After a lot of thought, we decided the best thing to do, because she is not handle-able, was to try a depomedral injection (steriod) and hope for the best. However the injection only lasted for 3 months, and so my options are to trap her every 3 months and give depo injection (the injections will probably kill her within a year) or try to treat her homeopathically (which in the past, even with good homeopathic help, has not been very successful), or just put her to sleep (which is very difficult for me as I have obviously become attached to the cat, even though she won't allow me to touch her!). So in the end, I decided to at least try to help her homeopathically. She is now contained, and if I crawl into her kennel and manage to scruff her, I have been able to give her stuff orally.
So you think Sil might be a way to go? assume with the intensity of the situation that I should start at 200ch?