OK folks, this is not for tender stomachs, but it is true. Years ago, I had a root canal. Since I stopped using antibiotics twenty years before, I determined I would not use them for my root canal. I went to a natural healer (can’t remember her title), but she told me to go off ALL sugar and processed foods, and to start taking a clove of raw garlic with every meal (you chop it up, and take it with food already in your stomach). I did so, and had the first session the next day.
I lived in the mountains, and because of the high altitude, they had to do the root canal in two sessions. First you drill out the nerve, then put in a temporary cap. A day or two later, you go back and put in the permanent filling.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I had an allergic reaction to the sanitizing solution they put in the tooth before they put in the temporary filling. It caused me to swell up, and I had to remove the temporary filling. The doctor gave me little gauze pellets to put in the hole in my tooth to keep out food, and I was to change it out every day.
After about 2 weeks, the swelling and pain had gone completely down, and I went back to have the temporary cap put in. Another allergic reaction, this time worse. And again, I had to remove the temporary filling because of the pain due to pressure.
This continued (I’m embarrassed to say) yet a third time. But this time the swelling almost closed off my throat (and yes, each time I swelled up like that the pain was ***Excruciating***).
I finally wised up and went to a holistic dentist my natural healer told me about. He told me to remove the tooth, that I had an allergic reaction to a dental chemical. He also told me that the only reason I did not have any infection was due to the raw garlic I took three times a day.
It is true that I smelled so strongly I could have cleared the room without opening my mouth. But had I gone the traditional route of prescription medication, I would have received course after course of increasingly stronger antibiotics until I had destroyed my immune system. As it was, each time after the swelling due to pain went down, I felt better than I had in years.
A root canal opens a hole through the tooth right to the bone. I had an open root canal for 6 weeks ...***without ANY infection***. I paid a high price as for pain due to the allergic reaction, but I say what I learned was worth any amount of money.