Root Canals: Everything Your Dentist “Forgot” to Tell You
June 17, 2009 by Dr. Marvin
Filed under Hot Topics, News, Podcasts, Root Canal Controversy
Episode 5 of Dangers in Dentistry, originally aired on KPRZ in San Diego.
Discover the hidden secrets behind root canals: the systemic link, the practice that has changed little in over 300 years, the dangers you were never told by your dentist, the alternatives, and what you can do if you’ve already had a root canal. Discover it all in this episode of Dangers in Dentistry.
Enjoy!
Dr. Marvin
San Diego, Encinitas Holistic Dentist
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Hello – do you have a chapter in South Africa?
Very interesting topic. It is actually a bit scarry to think that taking care of your teeth as recommended by your Doctor could actually be harming you in other ways later in life.
Thanks Deb. The medical world is always changing and making new discoveries. What seemed safe and reliable 50 or even 5 years ago may not be any longer once it’s been tested with new technologies and with greater medical knowledge. Dentists certainly don’t use amalgam fillings with the intent to cause harm, they just aren’t fully aware of the potential long-term affects.
Sorry Anton, we don’t have a chapter in South Africa, but you should be able to find a good holistic dentist by doing a quick Google search for holistic dentists in your area.
Some might be skeptical of the root canal dangers but it all chimes true with my own experiences.
I had an abscess, root canal and endodontic retreatment. Three years on I never felt fully recovered fromt eh episode. Fatigue, my psorasis went haywire, mild muscle and joint pain (the latter for the first time in my life). When very stressed, or suffering a slight cold, a radiating discomfort appears in the root canal area – sometimes this appears at random and is really annoying.
The tooth in often slightly tender to touch, unlike all my other teeth, which are fine. I’d been ‘monitoring’ the tooth with a holistic dentist here in the UK but have now decided to grasp the nettle and get it pulled (with the recommended bone cleaning protocol).
ALl logic suggests that keeping dead material in your mouth is at the very least deeply unhygenic but I suppose the ‘root canal danger’ idea is not as widely known as the dangers of mercury fillings (which is getting increasingly mainstream, with whole nations banning the practice).
Good luck with getting this stuff better known.
David, thanks for sharing your story. We recently had a patient who was very reticent to have a root canal tooth extracted. After we showed her 3D Cone Beam images of the infected area below the tooth, she decided to proceed with that one, but not the other two root canal treated teeth she has. She called us yesterday to say that her chronic headaches subsided almost immediately after the tooth was pulled and that she feels healthier in general (more energy, less fatigue, sleeping better, etc.). Now she wants to proceed with the other two teeth.
Of course, not all cases have such results, but we’re seeing about 80% of extracted root canals have substantial infections (check out a few pictures of infected root canals here: http://naturaldentistry.us/1676/why-are-root-canals-bad/). Infections are nasty, no matter what the obvious symptoms are. If your arm became infected, you wouldn’t just let it be… but that’s exactly what happens in the mouth. It’s a classic “out of sight, out of mind” scenario.
Thanks again for sharing your story. The moral should be “take care of your teeth and avoid needless procedures like root canals, etc.”!