Do you have a chronic degenerative disease? If so, have you been told, “It’s all in your head?”
Well, that might not be that far from the truth… the root cause of your illness may be in your mouth.
There is a common dental
procedure that nearly every dentist will tell you is completely safe,
despite the fact that scientists have been warning of its dangers for
more than 100 years.
Every day in the United States alone, 41,000 of these dental procedures are performed on patients who believe they are safely and permanently fixing their problem.
What is this dental procedure?
More than 25 million root canals are performed every year in this country.
Root-canaled teeth are
essentially “dead” teeth that can become silent incubators for highly
toxic anaerobic bacteria that can, under certain conditions, make their
way into your bloodstream to cause a number of serious medical
conditions—many not appearing until decades later.
Most of these toxic
teeth feel and look fine for many years, which make their role in
systemic disease even harder to trace back.
Sadly, the vast majority of dentists are oblivious to the serious potential health risks they are exposing their patients to, risks that persist for the rest of their patients’
lives. The American Dental Association claims root canals have been
proven safe, but they have NO published data or actual research to
substantiate this claim.
Fortunately, I had some
early mentors like Dr. Tom Stone and Dr. Douglas Cook, who educated me
on this issue nearly 20 years ago. Were it not for a brilliant
pioneering dentist who, more than a century ago, made the connection
between root-canaled teeth and disease, this underlying cause of disease
may have remained hidden to this day. The dentist’s name was Weston
Price—regarded by many as the greatest dentist of all time.
Weston A. Price: World’s Greatest Dentist
Most dentists would be
doing an enormous service to public health if they familiarized
themselves with the work of Dr. Weston Price. Unfortunately, his work
continues to be discounted and suppressed by medical and dental
professionals alike.
Dr. Price was a dentist
and researcher who traveled the world to study the teeth, bones, and
diets of native populations living without the “benefit” of modern food.
Around the year 1900, Price had been treating persistent root canal
infections and became suspicious that root-canaled teeth always remained
infected, in spite of treatments. Then one day, he recommended to a
woman, wheelchair bound for six years, to have her root canal tooth extracted, even though it appeared to be fine.
She agreed, so he
extracted her tooth and then implanted it under the skin of a rabbit.
The rabbit amazingly developed the same crippling arthritis as the woman
and died from the infection 10 days later. But the woman, now free of
the toxic tooth, immediately recovered from her arthritis and could now
walk without even the assistance of a cane.
Price discovered that it’s mechanically impossible to sterilize a root-canaled (e.g. root-filled) tooth.
He then went on to show
that many chronic degenerative diseases originate from root-filled
teeth—the most frequent being heart and circulatory diseases. He
actually found 16 different causative bacterial agents for these
conditions. But there were also strong correlations between root-filled
teeth and diseases of the joints, brain and nervous system. Dr. Price
went on to write two groundbreaking books in 1922 detailing his research
into the link between dental pathology and chronic illness.
Unfortunately, his work was deliberately buried for 70 years, until
finally one endodontist named George Meinig recognized the importance of
Price’s work and sought to expose the truth.
Dr. Meinig Advances the Work of Dr. Price
Dr. Meinig,
a native of Chicago, was a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II
before moving to Hollywood to become a dentist for the stars. He
eventually became one of the founding members of the American
Association of Endodontists (root canal specialists).
In the 1990s, he spent 18 months immersed in Dr. Price’s research. In June of 1993, Dr. Meinig published the book
Root Canal Cover-Up, which continues to be the most comprehensive reference on this topic today. You can order your copy directly from the
Price-Pottenger Foundation.
What Dentists Don’t Know About the Anatomy of Your Teeth
Your teeth are made of the hardest substances in your body.
In the middle of each
tooth is the pulp chamber, a soft living inner structure that houses
blood vessels and nerves. Surrounding the pulp chamber is the dentin,
which is made of living cells that secrete a hard mineral substance. The
outermost and hardest layer of your tooth is the white enamel, which
encases the dentin.
The
roots of each tooth descend into your jawbone and are held in place by
the periodontal ligament. In dental school, dentists are taught that
each tooth has one to four major canals. However, there are accessory
canals that are never mentioned. Literally miles of them!
Just as your body has
large blood vessels that branch down into very small capillaries, each
of your teeth has a maze of very tiny tubules that, if stretched out,
would extend for three miles. Weston Price identified as many as 75
separate accessory canals in a single central incisor (front tooth). For
a more detailed explanation, refer to an article by Hal Huggins, DDS,
MS, on the Weston A. Price Foundation website. (These images are
borrowed from the Huggins article.)
Microscopic organisms regularly move in and around these tubules, like gophers in underground tunnels.
When a dentist performs a
root canal, he or she hollows out the tooth, then fills the hollow
chamber with a substance (called guttapercha), which cuts off the tooth
from its blood supply, so fluid can no longer circulate through the
tooth. But the maze of tiny tubules remains. And bacteria, cut off from
their food supply, hide out in these tunnels where they are remarkably
safe from antibiotics and your own body’s immune defenses.
The Root Cause of Much Disease
Under the stresses of
oxygen and nutrient deprivation, these formerly friendly organisms morph
into stronger, more virulent anaerobes that produce a variety of potent
toxins. What were once ordinary, friendly oral bacteria mutate into
highly toxic pathogens lurking in the tubules of the dead tooth, just
awaiting an opportunity to spread.
No amount of
sterilization has been found effective in reaching these tubules—and
just about every single root-canaled tooth has been found colonized by
these bacteria, especially around the apex and in the periodontal
ligament. Oftentimes, the infection extends down into the jawbone where
it creates cavitations—areas of necrotic tissue in the jawbone itself.
Cavitations are areas of
unhealed bone, often accompanied by pockets of infected tissue and
gangrene. Sometimes they form after a tooth extraction (such as a wisdom
tooth extraction), but they can also follow a root canal. According to
Weston Price Foundation, in the records of 5,000 surgical cavitation
cleanings, only two were found healed.
And all of this occurs
with few, if any, accompanying symptoms. So you may have an abscessed
dead tooth and not know it. This focal infection in the immediate area
of the root-canaled tooth is bad enough, but the damage doesn’t stop
there.
Root Canals Can Lead to Heart, Kidney, Bone, and Brain Disease
As long as your immune
system remains strong, any bacteria that stray away from the infected
tooth are captured and destroyed. But once your immune system is
weakened by something like an accident or illness or other trauma, your
immune system may be unable to keep the infection in check.
These bacteria can
migrate out into surrounding tissues by hitching a ride into your blood
stream, where they are transported to new locations to set up camp. The
new location can be any organ or gland or tissue.
Dr. Price was able to
transfer diseases harbored by humans to rabbits, by implanting fragments
of root-canaled teeth, as mentioned above. He found that root canal
fragments from a person who had suffered a heart attack, when implanted
into a rabbit, would cause a heart attack in the rabbit within a few
weeks.
He discovered he could
transfer heart disease to the rabbit 100 percent of the time! Other
diseases were more than 80 percent transferable by this method. Nearly
every chronic degenerative disease has been linked with root canals,
including:
-Heart disease
-Kidney disease
-Arthritis, joint, and rheumatic diseases
-Neurological diseases (including ALS and MS)
-Autoimmune diseases (Lupus and more)
There may also be a
cancer connection. Dr. Robert Jones, a researcher of therelationship
between root canals and breast cancer, found an extremely high
correlation between root canals and breast cancer. He claims to have
found the following correlations in a five-year study of 300 breast
cancer cases:
-93 percent of women with breast cancer had root canals
-7 percent had other oral pathology
-Tumors, in the majority of cases, occurred on the same side of the body as the root canal(s) or other oral pathology
Dr. Jones claims that
toxins from the bacteria in an infected tooth or jawbone are able to
inhibit the proteins that suppress tumor development. A German physician
reported similar findings. Dr. Josef Issels reported that, in his 40
years of treating “terminal” cancer patients, 97 percent of his cancer
patients had root canals. If these physicians are correct, the cure for
cancer may be as simple as having a tooth pulled, then rebuilding your
immune system.
Good Bugs Gone Bad
How are these mutant
oral bacteria connected with heart disease or arthritis? The ADA and the
AAE claim it’s a “myth” that the bacteria found in and around
root-canaled teeth can cause disease. But they base that on the
misguided assumption that the bacteria in these diseased teeth are the
SAME as normal bacteria in your mouth—and that’s clearly not the case.
Today, bacteria can be identified using DNA analysis, whether they’re dead or alive, from their telltale DNA signatures.
In a
continuation of Dr. Price’s work, the Toxic Element Research Foundation
(TERF) used DNA analysis to examine root-canaled teeth, and they found
bacterial contamination in 100 percent of the samples tested. They
identified 42 different species of anaerobic bacteria in 43 root canal
samples. In cavitations, 67 different bacteria were identified among the
85 samples tested, with individual samples housing between 19 to 53
types of bacteria each. The bacteria they found included the following
types:
-Capnocytophagaochracea
-Fusobacteriumnucleatum
-Gemellamorbillorum
-Leptotrichiabuccalis
-Porphyromonasgingivalis
Are these just benign,
ordinary mouth bugs? Absolutely not. Four can affect your heart, three
can affect your nerves, two can affect your kidneys, two can affect your
brain, and one can infect your sinus cavities… so they are anything BUT
friendly! (If you want see just how unfriendly they can be, I invite
you to investigate the footnotes.)
Approximately 400 percent more bacteria were found in the blood surrounding the
root canal tooth than were found in the tooth itself, suggesting the
tooth is the incubatorand the periodontal ligament is the food supply.
The bone surrounding root-canaled teeth was found even HIGHER in
bacterial count… not surprising, since bone is virtual buffet of
bacterial nutrients.
Since When is Leaving A Dead Body Part IN Your Body a Good Idea?
There is no other
medical procedure that involves allowing a dead body part to remain in
your body. When your appendix dies, it’s removed. If you get frostbite
or gangrene on a finger or toe, it is amputated. If a baby dies in
utero, the body typically initiates a miscarriage.
Your immune system
doesn’t care for dead substances, and just the presence of dead tissue
can cause your system to launch an attack, which is another reason to
avoid root canals—they leave behind a dead tooth.
Infection, plus the
autoimmune rejection reaction, causes more bacteria to collect around
the dead tissue. In the case of a root canal, bacteria are given the
opportunity to flush into your blood stream every time you bite down.
Why Dentists Cling to the Belief Root Canals are Safe
The ADA rejects Dr.
Price’s evidence, claiming root canals are safe, yet they offer no
published data or actual research to substantiate their claim. American
Heart Association recommends a dose of antibiotics before many routine
dental procedures to prevent infective endocarditis (IE) if you have
certain heart conditions that predispose you to this type of infection.
So, on the one hand, the ADA acknowledges oral bacteria can make their way from your mouth to your heart and cause a life-threatening infection.
But at the same time,
the industry vehemently denies any possibility that these same
bacteria—toxic strains KNOWN to be pathogenic to humans—can hide out in
your dead root-canaled tooth to be released into your blood stream every
time you chew, where they can damage your health in a multitude of
ways.
Is this really that
large of a leap? Could there be another reason so many dentists, as well
as the ADA and the AAE, refuse to admit root canals are dangerous?
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, there is. Root canals are the most
profitable procedure in dentistry.
What You Need to Know to AVOID a Root Canal
I strongly recommend
never getting a root canal. Risking your health to preserve a tooth
simply doesn’t make sense. Unfortunately, there are many people who’ve
already have one. If you have, you should seriously consider having the
tooth removed, even if it looks and feels fine. Remember, as soon as
your immune system is compromised, your risk of of developing a serious
medical problem increases—and assaults on your immune system are far too
frequent in today’s world.
If you have a tooth removed, there are a few options available to you.
1)Partial denture: This is a removable denture, often just called a “partial.” It’s the simplest and least expensive option.
2)Bridge: This is a more permanent fixture resembling a real tooth but is a bit more involved and expensive to build.
3)Implant: This is a permanent artificial tooth, typically titanium,
implanted in your gums and jaw. There are some problems with these due
to reactions to the metals used. Zirconium is a newer implant material
that shows promise for fewer complications.
But just pulling the tooth and inserting some sort of artificial replacement isn’t enough.
Dentists are
taught to remove the tooth but leave your periodontal ligament. But as
you now know, this ligament can serve as a breeding ground for deadly
bacteria. Most experts who’ve studied this recommend removing the
ligament, along with one millimeter of the bony socket, in order to
drastically reduce your risk of developing an infection from the
bacterially infected tissues left behind.
I strongly recommend
consulting a biological dentist because they are uniquely trained to do
these extractions properly and safely, as well as being adept at
removing
mercury fillings,
if necessary. Their approach to dental care is far more holistic and
considers the impact on your entire body—not JUST your mouth.
If you need to find a biological dentist in your area, I recommend visiting
toxicteeth.org,
a resource sponsored by Consumers for Dental Choice. This organization,
championed by Charlie Brown, is a highly reputable organization that
has fought to protect and educate consumers so that they can make
better-informed decisions about their dental care. The organization also
heads up the Campaign for Mercury-Free Dentistry.
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