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Can root canals cause diabetes and other illnesses? (see inside)

Asked by Aster (20028points) January 19th, 2011

When healthy teeth, non-decayed and freshly extracted (such as impacted wisdom teeth or for orthodontic purposes) were implanted under the skin of rabbits by Weston Price, DDS, nothing happened. No reaction was seen, no matter how long they remained. Dr. Price also implanted sterile objects, such as coins and pieces of glass or metal, and saw no reaction. Over 100 sterile foreign objects were tested to verify this! The rabbits merely formed a thin skin–like sac around each object.

An immense difference was observed in animals following the implantation of root filled teeth beneath the skin of his rabbits. Most of the embedded teeth became surrounded by pus or inflammation: the rabbits usually died within 6–10days! Some rabbits developed a thick fibrous capsule around the teeth and lived for several months to a year; fewer showed no evidence whatsoever of injury or illness from these teeth. Many of the rabbits with implanted encapsulated teeth went on to develop degenerative diseases, notably of the heart and kidneys.
Dr. Price went on to remove embedded teeth from a rabbit which had just died and then re-implanted it into another rabbit. Each time he would carefully wash the tooth with pumice and disinfectant. The same tooth would kill rabbits in succession. (He stopped at that point, having fulfilled his purpose.)
One time he removed an implanted tooth from a rabbit which died, placed it in boiling water for 1 hour, let it cool and re implanted it into another rabbit. It took 22 days for the rabbit to die instead of the usual 6–10 days.
Then, Dr. Price placed one such tooth in a hospital autoclave for 1 hour at 30 lbs. pressure. When this tooth caused a rabbit to die, he then used 60 lbs. pressure for 1 hour and eventually 300 lbs. pressure for 2 hours! Although more lengthy sterilization prolonged their lives, all of the rabbits died. In order to confirm that the microbial toxins were the source of the problem and not the bacteria themselves, he crushed roots of root filled teeth, rinsed them and filtered this rinse liquid through a special filter that removes all bacteria. After proving that no bacteria remained, after attempting to culture the liquid (to no avail), it was injected into rabbits. Death usually occurred within a couple of weeks.

Dr. Price reported extensively on the changes in blood chemistry induced by root canals in both man and laboratory animals. Repeatedly, he demonstrated such alterations following placement changes induced by root canals were as follows:

Calcium/phosphorus imbalance
Lower pH
High blood sugar *
Higher uric acid
Altered total protein (and sub components thereof)
White blood cell alterations
E.G. depressed PMNs (by 33%)
Elevated lymphocytes (by 58%)
So, does it follow that Dr Price proved that root canaled teeth are detrimental to health?

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tinyfaery's avatar

To rabbits, yes. Sick fuck.

MissA's avatar

That is WAY weird. Would you state your sources for this information. You’ve peaked my interest. What about other implant teeth?

Aster's avatar

All root canaled teeth killed the rabbits while glass and other objects implanted under their skin were harmless.
I had one root canal. Cost me a thousand bucks and the entire tooth popped out the following year.
Much of Price’s research is contained in two monumental volumes entitled Dental Infections Oral & Systemic and Dental Infections and the Degenerative Diseases. While these works have long been in the PPNF library, it was only just four years ago that the Foundation became aware of their importance. These volumes have moldered in obscurity because Dr. Price’s research was suppressed and buried over 70 years ago by the autocratic action of a minority group of dentists and physicians who refused to accept the focal infection theory.

In spite of the thousands of experiments conducted on 5,000 animals, and in spite of the thoroughness and excellence of his root canal research, all of Price’s 25 years of scientific efforts were so well covered up that there is hardly a dentist alive today who has ever heard about his discoveries.

When Pat Connolly was alerted to the importance of these volumes, she brought them to my attention. Pat knew of my graduate studies with Professor Edgar Coolidge, the foremost root canal teacher and researcher in the world. She knew that I was one of 19 dentists that founded the Root Canal Association, and that I had a long association with the American Association of Endodontists. (Endodontists are specialists in root canal therapy.) In fact, my background in nutrition and root canal therapy led to my appointment as manager for the new dental office at the 20th Century Fox Movie Studio.

Pat forwarded PPNF’s precious copies of the two volumes to me and suggested that I review Dr. Price’s root canal studies and report back to the PPNF Board of Directors my findings and interpretation of his work.

I immediately realized, upon reading the volumes, that Dr. Price’s research was thorough and sound. It was easy to see why he was so revered as a dental research specialist.

The gist of the research and of the thousands of animal studies is this: That root-canal-filled teeth always remain infected no matter how good they might look or how good they might feel.

Dr. Price suspected that bacterial infection accompanied many degenerative illnesses. In the beginning, he didn’t know what bacteria were involved or just how they contributed to so many disease conditions. But he did recall that in medical practice doctors made cultures from the infection site, grew the organism present in a culture medium and then injected the bacteria into an animal to see if they could reproduce the disease and thereby prove it was the cause of the illness.

Dr. Price suspected that these infections arose from the teeth. He decided to implant an extracted root-filled tooth under the skin of an animal. He felt that if bacteria were present and carrying illness, their presence in a tooth might offer the same kind of proof physicians found when they injected the bacterial culture to produce disease in an animal. That is exactly what took place. He found that by implanting the root-filled tooth, the disease of the patient was transferred to animals. Whatever disease the patient had, the animal with the extracted tooth under its skin developed the same disease as the patient.

In other words, if the patient had heart disease, the animal developed heart disease. If he had kidney trouble, disease of the kidney was transferred to the animal. If he had a problem in his joints, the animals’ joints became similarly involved. The principle held true for the whole spectrum of human ailments. Whatever the disease, the animal would develop that of the patient.

Most of the time Dr. Price found the bacteria involved were of the streptococcus family, but he also found staphylococcus, spirochetes and fungi. He found that if a patient had more than one root-canal treated tooth, he could actually have a different organism infecting each one of the treated teeth. That is the reason some people have various ailments from their teeth, all at the same time. In addition, infected root canals have a detrimental effect on the immune system, causing a number of different illnesses.

For a long time, Dr. Price had trouble finding out just how the bacteria existed in the tooth. His own experience in treating infection present in root canals led him to believe that disinfectants controlled the organisms. Thousands of experiments proved this assumption to be incorrect.

crisw's avatar

You neglect to mention that this “research” was performed 90 years ago!

It’s been thoroughly debunked- in fact, it was debunked by 1936…

tinyfaery's avatar

Bwahahaha.

Aster's avatar

@crisw, thank you for that information!!
@psychocandy , I won’t say what I’m thinking about you. Psycho c.
” Despite the mainstream rejection of focal infection theory in relation to endodontics, some publications,[5] including an anti-root canal book called Root Canal Cover up,[22] have resurrected Price’s old research on focal infection and endodontic therapy in ways that might suggest his findings are new and promising to an uninformed patient.[5]

Aster's avatar

It is interesting how a dentist , “90 years ago” could have this kind of knowledge:
*NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL DEGENERATION” BY WESTON PRICE, DDS

An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods meaning we had processed foods 90 years ago??.
For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. About the Author
Dr. Price was a Cleveland dentist, who has been called the Charles Darwin of Nutrition.

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