Do you suspect you've had health consequences from a root canal?

I don’t understand what “root canal teeth” or teeth being implanted under the skin of another species means. Root canal and putting foreign objects under skin are two different things.

This article has a lot of good info on Weston Price.

Dr Price was able to transfer diseases harbored by humans from their extracted root canal teeth into rabbits by inserting a fragment of a root canal root under the skin in the belly area of a test rabbit. He found that root canal fragments from a person who had suffered a heart attack, when implanted into a rabbit, would cause a heart attack in the rabbit within a few weeks. Transference of heart disease could be accomplished 100 percent of the time. Some diseases transferred only 88 percent of the time, but the handwriting was on the wall.

@Aster: According to the article linked by @gorillapaws, Dr. Price was around in the early 1900’s. I would not give much credence to medical experiments from 100 years ago.

I certainly would. Just as findings on sterilization of surgical instruments still hold true.

@Aster: Yes, but according the link from @gorillapaws, Dr. Price was a quack. Also, the findings of sterilization of surgical instruments can be proven today. I don’t see any follow up of the experiments of Dr. Price being done today and proven. According to the article linked by @gorillapaws, the subjects of Dr. Price’s experiments were not taken from a random sampling of the population. That, in and of itself, makes the experiments faulty.

Often, when a professional risks his or her license with experiments that could reduce the income of their fellow practitioners they are labeled as “a quack” and it ruins their career. It’s like “don’t screw with the IRS.” Price was up against a very powerful, lucrative collective of dental professionals who were probably smirking amongst themselves as they looked forward to his lynching.
I suspect that most advocates of banishing vaccines are labeled as quacks too. Same with people who “march” against GMO’s and Monsanto- all quacks.
Of course, the bottom line is one can read Price’s literature and decide for himself if there is any validity to his findings.

@Aster: I’ll not get anxious about what Dr. Price wrote.

I had an uncle who died from a heart attack which, I was told, resulted from an infection that began with a root canal. But that was many years ago and i never got all the facts.

My best friend’s husband was in the hospital for two weeks after agreeing to two root canals in one visit. I can’t recall his symptoms and he is elderly.

“You shouldn’t trust the doctors who are in bed with Big Pharma. They don’t care about curing you, they only care about making money off you. You should, however, trust me and buy my supplements, my books and my DVDs.”

I’m convinced.
Pull those suckers out.

< is a dentist. A properly sealed root canal is sterile. Any random thing implanted under the skin can kill a rabbit. So no, I think it’s quackery. But, those whom are worried can just lose the tooth in question, ehhh?

I say pull ‘em out and put in an implant!

Yes. I now have a life threatening allergy to some chemical my dentist used during a root canal he performed on me. We don’t know which one it was because he doesn’t keep records, but if I get exposed to it again, I could die. Last time my throat swelled up so badly I couldn’t swallow.

I shudder every time I get in the dentist chair, and if I’m already stressed about things in my life while my current dentist is working on my mouth, I need a tranquilizer because of the trauma I went through at the other guy’s hands.

I’ve had 3 root canals – no heart attack. OTOH, gum disease correlates with heart disease. People needing heart surgery need to clear up gum disease before the heart surgery is started.

@snowberry it’s probably the anaesthetic.

@trailsillustrated I was under the impression it was the sanitizing agent the dentist put down the root canal hole. Every time he did whatever he did my reaction got worse. But we’ll never know exactly what caused my reaction.

I had an open root canal for over 2 months. I kept a wad of cotton in it. We waited a few weeks every time I swelled up and had to remove the temporary filling he had in there, and then he’d re-drill it and off we’d go again. I finally removed the tooth. Problem solved! But every time I get started with a new dentist I have to re-hash the whole horrible nightmare again.

@snowberry I dont know what it could have been. They use calcium hydroxide and sodium hypochlorite inside the canal to sterilise it, unless you are old then they used formaldehyde. I hope you wouldn’t consider ever having a root canal done by a gp they should always be done by a specialist.

I had one done by a GP, turned out fine, one by an Endodontist which is fine (but my face did swell up for a couple days) and one by a specialist which is also fine. lol
Actually, the only reason I let a GP do one is because of his terminology. He said, “let me clean that out. It’ll have to be cleaned out eventually anyway. ” I wonder if that was even true?

@trailsillustrated Yes, it was a GP dentist, but I didn’t know the difference or the possible consequences back then. I also didn’t have the money that a specialist would have charged. This happened 12 years ago.

@Aster it’s an “open and debride’ and it’s done to get a patient out of pain. They should be sent straight to the specialist to finish it.

@trailsillustrated I wasn’t in any pain. And his anesthesia worked great as he dug and scraped. Seems like it was around $150?

I had one GP do a root canal – summer of pain! I’ve had 2 done by an endodontist – fast and relatively painless.