…a brief overview
The greatest deception about this procedure is the name.
Root Canal ‘Treatment’ or Root Canal ‘Therapy’.
It is neither a ‘treatment’ nor a ‘therapy’.
It is a procedure which leaves
a dead, infected, gangrenous tooth in your head.
In other words, a Toxin Factory,
which will poison your body 24/7
The dental trade calls this procedure ‘saving a tooth’.
I call saving a tooth, keeping it alive.
This paper is intended as a summary of the main issues surrounding Root Canal Procedures. It is not referenced, as the main work, “The Garbage Collector”, is referenced, and is a far more in depth explanation of the issues.
Root Canal procedures have been described as:
“…the story of how a ‘cast of millions’ become entrenched inside the structure of teeth and end up causing the largest number of diseases ever traced to a single source.” Dr George Meinig
Most people who have visited a dentist will have been told at some stage in their lives that “Your tooth needs a root canal treatment, as this is the only way of saving it.” Perhaps the tooth has been filled too many times or the decay and infection have entered the nerve of the tooth, or perhaps there is an abscess at the end of it. Perhaps it has just been hurting too much and you need to stop the pain and the tablets you are taking. Perhaps, as happens occasionally, the dentist is a little unscrupulous and suggests a root canal before any other work is done on the tooth – a sort of ‘preventive measure’.
Most people these days will know someone with cancer, M.S., or some other form of autoimmune disease or dementia. In the same way most people will know someone who has had a root canal on a tooth, if not many. The procedure is so common that the American Dental Association have boasted about the millions that are done each year in America, as a way of suggesting their importance, their safety and of course their effectiveness/success.
Many two dimensional diagrams, accompanied by a few words that say nothing, are given to the patient when they are faced with the decision to do a root canal or have the tooth ‘ripped out of their heads’. Implants are offered as a way of replacing the missing tooth. Leaving a space in your mouth or other replacement methods are rarely discussed as options.
As scary as the root canal procedure sounds, the alternatives are made to sound much worse and a lot more expensive. You may be told that the ‘treatment’ is so complicated and/or so essential that you will be referred to a specialist ‘endodontist’ to have your tooth saved.
SPECIAL NOTE: a specialist endodontist has several years of specialty training beyond the 5 year undergraduate training that most dentists are given. You might think that they have special techniques to go along with this extra training, beyond the scope of the general dentist. Sadly this is not true. Both the specialist endodontist and the general dentist are equally unable to perform the basic requirements of this procedure.
Real information about this archaic procedure is difficult to find. It is denied by all dental establishments including the Private Trade Organizations such as the dental associations and the endodontic societies worldwide. If they would admit that root canaled, dead teeth, do cause cancer and a huge variety of other diseases, there would be a whole group of specialists out of a job, and so much less disease that the drug company profits would be affected. The knowledge has been suppressed since the 1920’s when Dr Weston Price first published his research findings. Not only has the information been suppressed but the people, like me, who try to bring it to the world are ridiculed, demonized, and sent into purgatory, if still registered as a dentist. The dental establishment ruthlessly clings to the story that root canals save teeth.
The modern propaganda supporting the safety and efficacy of root canals, hangs off a concept / story / lie, that the root canaled tooth is NOT a DEAD TOOTH, because it is supported by living tissue, like periodontal ligament and bone. This deceit began in 1977 with the publication of an opinion piece by a famous endodontist called Dr Ehrmann.
“It is wrong to speak of (Root Canal Therapy) as a dead tooth; it is more correct to describe such a tooth as nonvital or , better, pulpless. Even though the central blood supply to the tooth has been lost, the tooth itself still retains it’s connection to the body via the periodontal membrane and the cementum.”
Focal Infection – The endodontic point of view Ehrmann Oral Surgery Vol 44 No 4 October 1977
In the same way it would be wrong to speak of a bloodless, gangrenous leg as being dead, because it is still attached to your body via the hip!
The Oxford dictionary defines ‘non-vital’ as “Fatal To Life”.
It defines ‘Dead’ as “No longer Alive”.
If the blood supply to any tissue is removed, then that tissue dies. A pulpless tooth has had the blood supply removed. It Is Dead. It does NOT receive any nutrition from the surrounding tissues.
No matter what the claim, a tooth that has had a root canal procedure, IS A DEAD TOOTH!
Dead, is Dead, is Dead!
Have a look a the letters to and from the Australian society of Endodontology in 1977 to get an idea of the lack of information that the endodontic societies proclaim. Their position is of course still current.
From the website of the Australian Society of Endodontology – ASE Inc – These are the root canal specialists! (2022) (Click the resources link)
They still claim that the tooth is not dead!
Dentists will repeat it over and over again, believing what the specialists say. Even some so called ‘holistic’ dentists make this claim.
The formula for every dictator is, ‘tell the same lie often enough, and everyone will believe it.’
A Bit of Anatomy
Part of the problem is that dentists and endodontists start believing the two dimensional diagrams that they give their patients. These images usually show a conical root canal going down the centre of the root, followed by the canal being filled with a pink area depicting a perfect root filling which supposedly seals the tooth and stops any bacteria getting in or out of the tooth. This concept is severely flawed as will be shown.
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To understand some of the issues we need to understand the anatomy of the tooth. This is discussed in detail in The Garbage Collector and in my documentary called Rooted. (See the short extract just below.)
The root canal is a closed tube which opens at the end of the root, (the apex of the tooth) and extends up the centre of the root into the crown of the tooth, where it is called the pulp chamber. Blood vessels and nerve fibres enter and leave the canal through the apex. Nutrition of the tooth and the removal of waste products is achieved and many nerve fibres tell our brains if the tooth hurts.
The root canal system is like the tap root of a tree. It is not a nice funnel shape, as depicted in two dimensional diagrams. All of these fine branches are impossible to ‘treat’.
The root of the tooth is made of a material called Dentine. It is calcified material in the form of millions of fine tubules (about 30,000 to 75,000 per mm2). They run from the canal to the enamel of the crown and also to the root surface, communicating with the rest of the body. Bacteria will inhabit the full depth of these tubules.
If you were to place these tubules end to end, in a single rooted tooth, you would find about THREE MILES (4.5Km) of tubing loaded with BILLIONS of Bacteria. (Lower molars generally have two roots and upper molars have three.)
See the whole documentary Here
A movie or a thousand words?
A brief outline of the procedure is in this short video. This also describes the anatomy of the tooth and how it relates to the body.
It is part of the documentary ‘ROOTED’ which I made in 2006 – (5 Minutes)
When dentists pretend that they are dealing with a finite 2 dimensional tube, they are intentionally ignoring the anatomy and structure of one of the most complex parts of the body, which of course communicates with the rest of the body.
The Procedure
The steps to be carried out in this root canal procedure, have been clearly defined for over 150 years, and are set as the basic minimum standard to achieve a successful result.
Sadly, not one of these steps is achievable. Not by a GP dentist and nor by a specialist endodontist. Nor by how many times it is attempted.
Step 1 – The inside of the root canal must be cleaned out, so that no dead or decaying material is left inside the tooth. All living and dead tissue must be removed to within 1mm from the end of the root.
Research has shown that the main canal cannot be completely cleaned, with any of the known techniques. Between 35 – 50% of the surface of the main canal will be left untouched.
The accessory canals (tap roots of a tree), and the dentine tubules are also left untouched. They are completely inaccessible to any form of cleaning including Ozone and Laser. Consequently, they are ignored in favour of a two dimensional diagram! Tissue in these parts of the tooth will die and remain infected.
Therefore, the bulk of the tooth will remain untreated, gangrenous and infected with anaerobic bacteria. They are fully connected to the rest of the body and their contents will leak into the rest of the body 24/7. The bacteria and the toxins will spread to all parts of the body.
The preparation of the canal to within 1mm from the end of the root, is at best a good or bad guess. There is no way of accurately measuring the length of a root canal, which in most cases is dependent on using an x-ray to try and determine the length of the root. Many factors contribute to this being a dismal failure most of the time.
About 17% of all root canals are over-prepared and over-filled.
When a root canal is overfilled, the bone surrounding the apex and root filling will die and start to look like an abscess where the bone is all mushy. The dental term is “Liquefying Necrosis”. This happens 100% of the time. I have not yet met an endodontist who has any concern for this!
Step 2 – The root canal system must be completely sterilized – NO micro-organisms should remain alive.
A variety of medicaments are used to wash the canals and ‘clean’ them. The term ‘sterilization‘ was replaced by ‘disinfection‘, when the dentists had to admit that it was impossible to sterilize a tooth. Disinfection sounds great, but it is a far cry from complete sterilization. The Australian Dental Association admitted in 2007, that …
“…predictable eradication of bacteria from the root canal still remains an elusive goal…”
The British Dental Association have even gone as far as to state:
“It is well known that total sterility of the root canal system is impossible and that the aim is thorough cleansing and obturation.”
BDA 1996
Obturation means filling and sealing the canal which is also an impossible goal. I have no idea what ‘thorough cleansing’ means.
To compensate for the inability to sterilize the tooth, the root canal specialists invented a new concept with a new name. They claim that the tooth should be taken into a “PHYSIOLOGICAL BALANCE”. There is no definition for this term. There are no markers by which this supposed state can be shown to have been achieved. There is never any comment about the anaerobic bacteria (those which do not need oxygen to live. Aerobic bacteria require oxygen to live) that remain in the tooth and continue to multiply and grow happily on the decaying matter that also remains in the tooth. Also not discussed is what happens to this magical ‘physiological balance’, a year or so after the tooth has been sealed up, and the bacteria have continued to multiply. Seems to me that the physiology has become unbalanced very quickly. This concept is nothing but smoke and mirrors, for a procedure that depends on total sterility, which is unachievable.
Physiological Balance Is another impossible dream. It’s a fantasy, created by an incompetent profession, to disguise its total inability to achieve the single and most basic requirement of a root canal procedure. Nothing but smoke and mirrors by the top professors and specialists. It is a disgusting attempt to conceal their ineptitude and maintain their income.
Sterilization with Laser and Ozone – These new wonder techniques, also do not sterilize or clean the tooth. Very Important Information HERE!
Step 3 – The tooth must be sterilized with Biocompatible Materials
Medicaments are sealed into the tooth, for anything from a week to a month, to keep trying to disinfect the canals. They are usually changed and refreshed weekly. None of them work.
See a large list of these materials and the root filling cements. The information is taken from the Material Safety Data Sheets which are supplied by the manufacturer. They are all toxic. Some are embryotoxic and some are carcinogenic. They cause cancer! They spread from the tooth throughout the body 24/7.
Even worse, when antibiotics are inserted into the canals, they are in such a diluted concentration the dentine tubules and accessory canals, that they cause an antibiotic resistance in the bacteria. These bacteria spread throughout the body also and may cause an infection in another part of the body which will be almost impossible to treat.
Step 4 – The tooth must be filled and sealed so that no bacteria can get in or out.
The need for such a good root filling is based on the assumption that the only way in or out of the canal is by the apex at the end of the root. Again, the anatomy of the tooth is ignored in favour of an idiotic two dimensional model. All dentine tubules and accessory canals communicate with the rest of the body. All are conduits for bacteria and their toxins to get in and out of the tooth.
The determination that the tooth is ‘clean’ enough, ‘disinfected’ enough or even ‘sterile’ enough to fill and finish, is a truly magical process. It does not depend on any laboratory testing. Nor does it depend on a microscope. It does not depend on any clearly defined protocol!
This decision is based purely on the ‘clinical observation‘ of the dentist. Does the tooth still smell? Has it stopped oozing Pus? Has it stopped hurting? Is it becoming uneconomical to keep trying? Is the patient too unpleasant? NO – I am not joking! In my earlier more ignorant days, I also did thousands of root canals. I Believed that I was helping the patient.
Once this determination is made though, the dentist is ready to fill and seal the canals, with a ‘biocompatible’ material, so that nothing can get in or out of the tooth. This is usually done by spinning a root filling cement into the canal and then stuffing ‘Gutta Percha Points’ into the cement. The GP Points act like the bricks and the cement is the mortar. Some schools of thought are happy to just pour a formaldehyde based cement into the canal while assuming that the rest of the body will not be poisoned. A very false assumption! The toxicity of root filling cements is dealt with a little further down.
Apart from permanent implants of toxic materials in the root of the tooth, the sad reality is that there is NOT ONE technique which seals the main canals. As hard as dentistry has tried to achieve this, they have failed miserably.
In 2006 the International Endodontic Journal published:
“… it may be concluded that there is insufficient evidence to support the assumption that residual bacteria are entombed in the canal system in vivo by placement of a root filling”.
Consequences of and strategies to deal with residual post-treatment root canal infection M.K. Wu1, P. M. H. Dummer & P. R. Wesselink 2006 International Endodontic Journal
The International Endodontic Journal published in 2006:
“The long standing popular notion of entombment and perishing of intraradicular microbes following treatment lacks scientific validity.”
Wu MK et al., Consequences of and strategies to deal with residual post-treatment root canal infections. Int Endod J 2006;39:343-356
‘Intraradicular microbes’ is just another way of saying the ‘bugs that are living happily in the dentine tubules in your tooth’. This completely blows the myth that is being taught at most universities and which is considered a form of religious truth by most of the dental profession.
The Australian Dental Association published the following from one of Australia’s leading endodontists who has since become a Dean of Dentistry! He continues to teach that root canals are doable.
“…since no current restorative dental material is able to provide a total and permanent seal, it is always possible that micro leakage will occur, and bacteria may enter the tooth … Once bacteria have entered the tooth, there are thousands of potential direct pathways to the pulp chamber or root canal via the dentinal tubules which are wide enough for bacteria to migrate through.”
“The Changing Face Of Dentistry – Endodontics” by Dr Paul V. Abbott BDSc, MDS, FRACDS(Endo). Australian Dental Association News Bulletin April 1996
Yes, it is an impossible dream!
Remember that there is no way of accurately measuring the length of a root canal, about 17% of all root canals are over filled. The bone dies around these overextended root fillings. 100 % of overfilled canals are accompanied by liquefaction necrosis of the bone!
Step 5 – The Crown of the tooth must be restored.
The crown of the tooth, which has had a huge hole drilled in it to gain access to the top of the root canals, will need to be restored. This is usually done with a filling material that may be composite or mercury amalgam. It will need a crown to cover it, to mechanically hold the tooth together. That is going to set you back another $2,000 to $3,000, to sit on a dead tooth and look pretty. Your tooth has now become a toxin factory buried deep in the bone in a gold or porcelain coffin. Yes, it may be functional to chew on.
Step 6 – MANY Root Canals Fail and must be Redone.
Considering that none of the required steps are achievable, it boggles the imagination that any claim of success for this procedure could be made by anyone!
Failure is only measured locally. i.e. the tooth hurts, there is a visible abscess on an x-ray or there is still infection oozing out from the gum. If systemic effects were included in this diagnosis, there would be a 100% failure rate.
When the root canal fails, you’ll be advised to do it all again, by a specialist endodontist. Dentistry considers this to be a “CONSERVATIVE” approach. According to the Australian Dental Association, the failure rate is about 30%. Most medical procedures with this sort of failure rate would have been banned long ago.
Re-doing failed root canals, accounts for about 60% of the total workload of specialist endodontists, also according to the Australian Dental Association! It is thus a guaranteed fantastic income for the endodontist.
The good news is that it will cost you about 20% more than the first time. The endodontist will do exactly the same again but expect a different result. Seems to me that the more specialized the dentist, the more stupid they are. This time, when it fails again, it will be a combination of bad luck and/or your fault. By now you may have spent about $12,000 on this tooth.
When this approach fails again you will be advised to attempt a ‘Surgical approach’ which is called an Apicectomy. For this you will be sent to another specialist mate called an Oral Surgeon. Another couple thousand dollars and you will still end up taking the tooth out. Apicectomy is described more fully here. It also depends on the ludicrous two dimensional model of the tooth. By now you will probably be thinking that dentistry generally is a two dimensional fantasy.
Is it a wonder that professional indemnity insurance is substantially more expensive for a specialist endodontist or oral surgeon. The following quote comes from the website of one of Australia’s leading insurers. It demonstrates the vulnerability of both the practitioner and the patient:
A person comes into your dental practice without an appointment on a day you are fully booked.
The person advises the receptionist they saw you recently for a root canal and now have some localised pain. Despite their insistence on an appointment, your receptionist doesn’t consider it urgent as the patient does not appear to be in much pain. They tell the patient they cannot see you today and gives them the next available appointment.
The patient returns home and endures the pain as a root canal infection spreads to their jaw, face and bloodstream. When they finally present to you, the infection is obvious and you treat them promptly and appropriately. However, shortly after, the patient makes a demand for compensation against your practice and threatens to take legal action on the grounds that you did not identify and treat the infection earlier.
In this example, your treatment may have been technically competent but the practice and receptionist may be liable.
Dentists | MIPS Indemnity Insurance
The WHOLE procedure is MYTHICAL:
- It is impossible to clean all of the tissue from the inside of the root canal, let alone the accessory canals or the dentine tubules.
- It is impossible to accurately measure the length of the root.
- It is impossible to sterilize a tooth with any known technique , including laser and ozone.
- It is impossible to seal a tooth with a root filling. All techniques leak and fail.
- This is true for a GP Dentist or a Specialist Endodontist.
All materials used in the root canal procedure are toxic.
All materials inserted into a tooth, will spread to the rest of the body.
All range from cytotoxic to embryotoxic to outright carcinogenic.
These are materials that are used to wash the canal, to try to ‘sterilize/disinfect’ the canals and finally to fill them. These materials are left in the tooth from only a minute or two in the clinic, to being permanently implanted when the canal is filled.
Dead Tissue Issues
The tissue that remains in the tooth acts a a source of nutrients for the bacteria in the tooth. It will break down and become gangrenous.
The toxic by-products will also spread from the tooth to the rest of your body. These are some of the most toxic substances known to man and include Thio-ethers and Methyl-mercaptans. Structurally and chemically, they are similar to Mustard gas, that was used in the first world war. They interfere with mitochondrial function and the aerobic processes in cells. This reduction in aerobic function leads to cancer.
The bacteria that remain in the tooth, will spread to the rest of your body, and can then set up home in some other suitable organs.
See “Focus on Foci” by Dr Issells Here
Focal Infection
When ever the “noble art” * of Root Canals is challenged, the dental world springs into defense mode by wheeling out a really old cannon, called ‘Focal Infection Theory’. It’s a very sensible approach with which to counter descent. Firstly, it is denied as an old theory, rather than a reality, and few have the time or inclination to prove them wrong. By using this ‘debunked’ theory, they also side step the vast magnitude of the other mechanisms by which a dead tooth can kill you. Just as these organizations talk about the low allergic rate to mercury from amalgam fillings, so as to not discuss the hundreds of ways a mercury filling can kill you. I really do commend the script writers and propagandists that they employ. [Many deans and professors have rereferred to dentistry as a Noble Art. I really have no idea what they mean!]
Medical doctors know that if there is an uncontrolled infection in one part of the body, it may spread to other parts of the body via lymph, nerve and blood supplies. They know that if left uncontrolled it may kill you. They know that it is critical to get rid of the infection if the person is too heal. They also blindly and unethically ignore the teeth as a seat of infection to the rest of the body. Medical personnel are unaware of what the dental trade does on the daily.
- Infection in a distant part of the body which originates in a tooth, is called a ‘Focal Infection‘.
- The source of the bacterial infection is the tooth, which is the ‘Focus of Infection‘.
The Australian Dental Association (2007) have stated;
“If you have infection in the pulp, you will have infection spreading from the tooth to the bone and then to the rest of your body.” [i]
What better definition of Focal Infection could you want! And this from one of the organizations that strenuously denies the reality of Focal Infection. All dental authorities deny the reality of focal infection. Nope, it makes no sense to me either! The bacteria which infect the tooth, can and will spread from the tooth to the surrounding tissue, and the rest of the body. ALL of the rest of the body. From the brain to the toenails. A root canal procedure will NOT prevent this.
Dental associations refer to the ‘Focal Infection Theory‘, which implies that it is not real, and also that it is attributed to conspiracy theorists who want to bring down the good name of dentistry. This is all fine, unless you are afflicted by a chronic degenerative disease caused by your expensive root canal procedure. This is also one of the reasons that the medical profession never looks for a dental cause of diseases.
Dr Rosenow (1875 – 1966) was head of bacteriology research at the Mayo Clinic for over 40 years and one of the most respected scientists and medical doctors of his time. His research spanned over forty years, till he retired from his position as head of the Bacteriological Research Centre in the Mayo Clinic. Everything from diabetes to heart attacks and cancer. This list is reproduced here. Dr Rosenow’s research is ignored by the dental establishment because it is difficult for them to criticize the medical professions. Instead they like to use Dr Weston Price as the whipping boy, as he was a dentist.
The WHOLE of the dental establishment, worldwide, claim that Focal Infection is an old ‘THEORY’ that has been disproved over, and over again. They claim that the research of Dr Weston Price (published 1923) was seriously flawed. The dental establishment have never produced one published scientific paper to support their position! The current research, since Dr Price’s time, is simply denied!
You can see a small sample of this current research HERE, listing hundreds of published scientific articles! Near the beginning of this document, you will also see the diseases that were related to dead teeth, by Dr E. C. Rosenow, (1875-1966). His research fully supported that of Dr Price.
Everything that is placed or lives or is produced in a dead tooth
will travel to every part of the body
including foetus and brain
Focal Infection is Real. It is Not a Theory.
Also see the Page on Pleomorphic Change, to understand how the bacteria in a tooth can change form.
Over and Over Again
Root canal procedures are considered so safe & effective, that this procedure may be done on many teeth in one mouth. It is common. When thinking about the quantity of toxins, bacteria, root filling cements and other nasties coming from a single root canaled tooth, multiply this by the number of such teeth in the mouth. This is a recipe for disaster.
Some people are able to tolerate one or two such teeth, without showing clinical symptoms. Their immune functions will be compromised though, as will other systems in the body. As more insult is added, it is common to reach a tipping point, and suddenly that same person will be diagnosed with one of hundreds of diseases. It depends where the weakest part is, and that’s different for each individual.
Some holistic dentists have claimed that “if you are healthy, you might not see any effects from having a well done wholistic root canal.” I agree that you may not see any effects. Not initially anyway. Perhaps the brain tumor that starts in a year or so is not related to the tooth. Perhaps it is. If you are healthy when the tooth is root canaled, you may or may not remain healthy. Perhaps your health is good till the 2nd or 3rd root canal is done. The effects on the health of your body is cumulative. There is no dead tooth which does not act as a focus of infection or a focus of neural interference. There is no-such-thing as a holistic root canal procedure. All root canal procedures are the same and all fail in the same manner, no matter what name or price tag is attached!
The greater the number of dead teeth in the mouth, the greater the abuse to the rest of the body.
Broken Instruments
Remember that the aim of the procedure is to remove ALL dead tissue, sterilize the tooth and then fill it completely to within 1mm of the end of the root.
The instruments that are used in this procedure are very fine files and reamers. There are a variety of reasons that these instruments may break inside the root canal. It happens so often, that this breakage is considered a form of collateral damage. It’s bad luck, but still happens. The endodontic societies are quick to point out, that although all care may be taken, it can still happen – thus there is no responsibility.
When such an instrument breaks in a canal, it is usually impossible to remove it. It’s stuck in there and will remain forever. Some of these instruments are stainless steel. They will corrode inside the tooth and release nickel into your body. Nickel is one of the most allergenic and carcinogenic metals used in dentistry.
The broken file will prevent any work being done on the canal, beyond the top of the broken instrument. From this point on, it will remain untreatable and unfillable. It remains empty and infected, still with remnants of the pulp tissue in the main canal itself. In other words, this canal is now no longer able to be ‘treated’ properly, according to the principles of root canal procedures. It is just an empty toxic canal in the tooth.
This happens so often that it is regarded as ‘bad luck’ and collateral damage. You will be sent off with a ‘completed’ root canal that you are supposed to pay for. “It’s just bad luck and it should be OK. Here’s your bill!”
The reality is, that it is NOT OK. The job has been stuffed up. The job which was impossible in the first place, is now a disaster. There are very few tradies that get away with blaming their tools for the stuffed-up job. Why should the specialist endodontist be entitled to such a luxury?
My advice: The only way this can be looked at is as a lousy job! Do NOT pay the bill. Instead, put a complaint in to the dental board for a lousy job that has cost you your tooth. Get the endodontist to pay for the oral surgeon, to take out the stuffed-up tooth.
The German physician and cancer specialist, Professor Max Daunderer, was very vocal about the association between dental conditions and general health or lack of it. In an interview in 1998 he states;
“The dental work we get from dentists is not something biological or medical. I’d say it is a technical thing, and the techniques give the dentists a number of very strong poisons to be implanted in the mouth. If you kill the tooth and then fill its root canal with mercury, formaldehyde, cortisone, streptomycin, arsenic,… you are not doing a healthy thing.
All this dentistry is just a sin against the biology of the body and a sin against the ‘real’ medicine.”
A sobering comment by one of Germany’s leading medical oncology professors.
Questions to Ask Your Dentist about Root Canals
In Summary
- Dead teeth cause the largest number of diseases ever traced to a single source.
- There have been very few advances in root canal procedures in the last 300 years!
- This practice is based in anecdotal evidence, supported by general knowledge, not science.
- The dangers of root canal procedures, have been known for over 100 years.
- A Root Canalled tooth IS a dead tooth.
- Dead, gangrenous material always remains in the tooth.
- It is NOT possible to sterilize a tooth.
- It is not possible to completely fill and seal a root canal.
- All Root canal filling cements are toxic. Some are carcinogenic. Some cause irreversible nerve damage.
- These teeth do not just leak from the main canal, but from the dentine tubules and accessory canals, along the full length of the root.
- All toxins, bacteria, and ALL substances placed in a tooth, are transported to the rest of the body.
- Amalgam, implanted into the end of the root of a tooth, is an implant of mercury directly into the brain.
- Dead teeth will affect the energy flow in acupuncture meridians, and thus affect the health of distant tissue.
- Root therapy has a 33% failure rate.
- Over 60% of the workload of endodontists, is ‘retreating’ a failed root canal, by doing exactly the same procedures, and expecting a different result!
- Dead teeth cause systemic disease.
- Focal infection is real.
- The majority of medical practitioners have no idea about the danger of root canaled dead teeth. Thus, the cause of the disease is unknown and the treatments are symptomatic.
- Teeth are an integral part of the body!
Reference
[i] An overview of the dental pulp: its functions and responses to injury C Yu, PV Abbott from (2)