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.”!

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.