Can Root Canal Therapy Endanger Your Health?

It seems to us that their actions regarding the controversy over mercury in fillings is a strong indication of this possibility. Dr. George Meinig has studied the work of Dr. Weston Price, a meticulous researcher. Dr. Price's work shows how germs become trapped in teeth. While dentists fill the root canal, there are still over three miles of inacessible, untreated tubules from which these germs can pour toxins into your body.

These poisons can affect your heart, kidneys, lungs, eyes, stomach, brain, and countless other body tissues. At times, the germs themselves escape into the bloodstream and are carried throughout the body. Dr. Meinig writes of Dr.Price's twenty-five years of painstaking research, much of it under the auspices of the American Dental Association's Research institute.

He found the results of Dr. Price's research were buried over 70 years ago by non-believers. We feel that the dental and medical professions will bury the information with demands for further research. Such investigations are necessary, but people should know about Dr. Price's work so they can decide on their own what is best for them, to make intelligent choices. By making people aware of the cover-up, Dr. Meinig's exhaustive review of Dr. Price's research will undoubtedly force dentists and physicians to do some rethinking.

Beyond this, Dr. Meinig describes Dr. Price's research on gum disease and tooth decay in practical terms. This is valuable information. If we don't want to have the dangerous, toxic effects of root canal therapy in our bodies, we prevent they very need for them. And here again, Dr. Price helps us make the right choices. We've always said, if we're not preventing disease, we are preventing health. Dr. Price's work proves it.

The public and most of the dental profession are unaware of the turmoil and difficulties which attended the early years of the AAE organization's existence. During that time, extraction of infected teeth was standard and few dental schools taught the root canal filling technique. in teaching practicing dentists how to save infected teeth, we found it difficult to get their attention until we asked, How could you, as dentists, ever learn how to save teeth by taking them out?

Not knowing what we now know about root filled teeth, we became successful in teaching people the value of saving their teeth. An important part of that effort was to show them how to prevent tooth decay in the first place, thereby avoiding the need for root fillings. That we succeeded in teaching the value of saving their teeth is no longer a question. The AAE has almost 4000 members, and last year the use of more than 24 million teeth was extended by root canal therapy.

It will astound most dentists and physicians to learn we have not conquered the infectious organisms in teeth we believe we control by root canal therapy. The germs in the root canal seemingly have been eradicated and at times even large areas of infected jaw bone present around teeth are found to heal.