ROOT CANALS Root canals are the most toxic most damaging procedure dentists can do. You have two options: a root canal 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 formaldehyde compounds. 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 15% barium so that it will show up in the X-ray. 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. Weston Price conducted research on root canals and wrote two books about how toxic they can be. So you have to make up your mind what is more important to you. I believe no tooth is worth destroying my immune system.

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Hi sandi, i totally agree, do you know my so called holistic dentist told me i had a half done root canal, and he wanted to refill it with a composite and i let him not knowing about this at the time, when i found out how dangerous they were i made him pull it out, he didnt want to.
He didnt pull it properly so i had to go to another dentist to get it cleaned, all this for one tooth.

i had a tooth that was infected 6 months before i became ill the normal dentist took out the filling ,packed with gauze and refilled it through the next months i noticed little symptoms like swollen glands and the tooth hurt like hell but i felt ok anyway it got so bad i went back she took the filling out said it was still infected and filled the four root canals and filled again it was the next day i started to feel ill and 2 days later was the start of my nightmare when i thought i had menegitis i was so ill and remember telling keith i felt like id been poisoned then i was diagnosed with ME the tooth never stopped throbbing so i went back to the dentist and she did an x-ray she said it was all infected but could pull it out all in one go it all fell to pieces and she had to drill out all the root fillings she didnt clean out anything and just sewed up the gum now im wondering if this is what sent me spiralling downhill again but what can i do now that was about a year ago so i suppose all the damage is already done what can you do if this has happened is there anything you can take to help fight the bacteria will antibiotics deplete my immune system even more its hardly working now HELP

Oh gosh Tracy, you could have a cavitation there and it could possibly be filled with pathogens or even mercury. Your best bet would be to ask a dentist that you trust...but it should be dealt with just as soon as you are feeling well enough.

Are you taking lots of vitamin C, some pycnogenal, coenzyme Q10, milk thistle and lots of cleansing herbs and teas. It is so important for you to take extra good care to get your colon and kidneys working efficiently so you can make your body strong to so that it can get rid of all this crap in your body.

Lots of vitamin C and antioxidants, they are crucial.

Best luck sweetie, I will keep you in my prayers.

Sandi
xoxo

Its funny I have only just remembered that when I went to the dentist, I told her that I'd been diagnosed with ME and my immune system wasnt working properly. She said well this tooth is full of infection so your immune sytem is probably trying to fight it. When I've taken it out ,you'll probably get better. I wish