Is it possible that a health professional would advise a patient to keep inside his/her body a dead organ? NO WAY! well, dentists actually do! Some would not even crown a tooth without killing it unnecessarily.
ROOT CANALS are the most toxic, most damaging procedure dentists can do. You have two options at this stage: a root canal treatment or an extraction. Dentists usually fill root canals with gutta percha. Some use the Sargenti method, a popular treatment used by 25% of dentists, but denounced by the American Dental Association because it contains highly toxic formaldehyde compounds (folmaldehyde is also present in most childhood vaccines!!). There have been a lot of problems with those. They used to contain lead. The current formulas are said to have removed the lead, but millions of root canal treatments using the old formulas are still in people's mouths.
Gutta percha is no less than 15% barium so that it will show up in the X-ray. Barium is poison and toxic if ingested, barium is an irritant for inhalation and skin contact. Excessive amounts can cause violent diarrhea, convulsive tremors, and muscular paralysis. Barium is known to affect the heart and nervous system.
Gutta percha shrinks and leaves gaps and the tooth can never be sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile root canal. During a root canal, the main canal is filled and possibly some of the small side canals, but the other smaller canal-like structures in teeth called dentinal tubules are too tiny to be filled during treatment and these tubules become home to bacteria instead. Since there are millions of these tubules there is room for enough bacteria to challenge the immune system. The waste products from these nasty germs include some very toxic substances called thio-ethers, and your body has to deal with these toxins 24 hours a day. They contaminate the bone around the tooth and they are picked up by the immune system and carried to the liver for detoxification. Unfortunately, the liver can be seriously damaged by them and many Natural Killer Cells of the immune system die in the process, so if we ever need them to guard us from cancerous cells we will be at a disadvantage.
Root canals - anaerobic bacteria within root canal teeth produce toxins that are among the most poisonous chemicals on the planet. For this reason, they can produce disease at little more than the molecular level. Far below what can be seen on an X-ray. These toxins can be related to almost all of the autoimmune and degenerative diseases, but since the profession demands that dentistry place 30 million per year, and since they are a high profit item in dental service, they will continue to be defended as "preventive dentistry" for years to come. For those interested in good health, however, you have a right to know that these toxins are so potent that just a handful of molecules can create autoimmune diseases in susceptible people. Important to know is that the problem is the presence of these toxins in the periodontal ligament - the attachment between tooth and bone, and not in the pulp chamber. Yes, a dentist can sterilize a column of air in the center of a tooth, but, regardless of what you embalm the pulp chamber with, it is still dead. Another interesting point. A healthy body will reject dead things and create an immune action around the dead part. This results in pain around a dead tooth - which is the sign of good health. If it doesn't hurt, the immune system is not healthy enough to launch a defense, therefore the toxins are being spread all over the body.
So you have to make up your mind, what is more important to you? I believe no tooth is worth destroying my immune system.
At COSMETIC, LASER AND CEREC DENTISTRY we have top technology to for every area of dentistry and Root Canal Therapy is of course no exception, it includes HIgh power magnification, sonar technology to locate with accuracy the apical foramen (where the nerve enters the tooth) digital radiographs, the SIROLASE Diode laser and the water activated WATERLASE that significantly cools down the target tissue and we do irrigation with both Sodium Hypochloride and Ozone. We would only do RCT if you insist after informed consent because we are better equipped to do it than the average dentist but we do not recommend it.
To help you in your decision check different opinions:
against: http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/root.html
pro RCT: http://www.holisticdentist.com/root_canal_treated_teeth.htm
The next link adds to the laser controversy:
http://www.mgoldmandds.com/laserRCT.htm
During the procedure the irrigant Sodium Hypochloride could leave the tooth into the bone:
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