Re: Fw: [MSersLife] root canals

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I had repair on two lower front teeth fillings in

enamel scratched by the wires on childhood braces by

an incompetent orthodontist. A nerve turned " hot " in

one of the new fillings and resulted in antibiotics

and a root canal. The earliest symptoms of Multiple

Sclerosis began shortly after the root canal, but

there was no link until reading this article. That

tooth must go with slow drill with burr to remove one

millimeter of entire bony socket to remove the

periodontal ligament which " is always infected " ! I am

starting ldn and want the very best conditions I can

arrange. Thank you for this very important info!

Shirley in Lincoln City. Oregon

--- Bayuk <tbayuk@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----

> From: Bayuk

> MSersLife

> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:19 AM

> Subject: [MSersLife] root canals

>

>

> Sharon,

> Here in the source.

> Regards,

> Tom

>

> Root Canals Pose Health Threat

>

> An Interview with Meinig, D.D.S.

>

> Dr. Meinig brings a most curious perspective

> to an expose of latent dangers of root canal therapy

> - fifty years ago he was one of the founders of the

> American Association of Endodontists (root canal

> specialists)! So he's filled his share of root

> canals. And when he wasn't filling canals himself,

> he was teaching the technique to dentists across the

> country at weekend seminars and clinics. About two

> years ago, having recently retired, he decided to

> read all 1174 pages of the detailed research of Dr.

> Weston Price, (D..D.S). Dr. Meinig was startled and

> shocked. Here was valid documentation of systemic

> illnesses resulting from latent infections lingering

> in filled roots. He has since written a book, " Root

> Canal Cover-Up EXPOSED - Many Illnesses Result " , and

> is devoting himself to radio, TV, and personal

> appearances before groups in an attempt to blow the

> whistle and alert the public.

>

> MJ Please explain what the problem is with

> root canal therapy.

>

> GM First, let me note that my book is based on

> Dr. Weston Price's twenty-five years of careful,

> impeccable research. He led a 60-man team of

> researchers whose findings - suppressed until now

> rank right up there with the greatest medical

> discoveries of all time. This is not the usual

> medical story of a prolonged search for the

> difficult-to-find causative agent of some

> devastating disease. Rather, it's the story of how a

> " cast of millions " (of bacteria) become entrenched

> inside the structure of teeth and end up causing the

> largest number of diseases ever traced to a single

> source.

>

> MJ What diseases? Can you give us some

> examples?

>

> GM Yes, a high percentage of chronic

> degenerative diseases can originate from root filled

> teeth. The most frequent were heart and circulatory

> diseases and he found 16 different causative agents

> for these. The next most common diseases were those

> of the joints, arthritis and rheumatism. In third

> place - but almost tied for second - were diseases

> of the brain and nervous system. After that, any

> disease you can name might (and in some cases has)

> come from root filled teeth.

>

> Let me tell you about the research itself. Dr.

> Price undertook his investigations in 1900. He

> continued until 1925, and published his work in two

> volumes in 1923. In 1915 the National Dental

> Association (which changed its name a few years

> later to The American Dental Association) was so

> impressed with his work that they appointed Dr.

> Price their first Research Director. His Advisory

> Board read like a Who's Who in medicine and

> dentistry for that era. They represented the fields

> of bacteriology, pathology, rheumatology, surgery,

> chemistry, and cardiology.

>

> At one point in his writings Dr. Price made

> this observation: " Dr. Billings (M.D.),

> probably more than any other American internist, is

> due credit for the early recognition of the

> importance of streptococcal focal infections in

> systemic involvements. "

>

> What's really unfortunate here is that very

> valuable information was covered up and totally

> buried some 70 years ago by a minority group of

> autocratic doctors who just didn't believe or

> couldn't grasp - the focal infection theory.

>

> MJ What is the " focal infection " theory?

>

> GM This states that germs from a central focal

> infection - such as teeth, teeth roots, inflamed gum

> tissues, or maybe tonsils - metastasize to hearts,

> eyes, lungs, kidneys, or other organs, glands and

> tissues, establishing new areas of the same

> infection. Hardly theory any more, this has been

> proven and demonstrated many times over. It's 100%

> accepted today. But it was revolutionary thinking

> during World War I days, and the early 1920's!

>

> Today, both patients and physicians have been

> " brain washed " to think that infections are less

> serious because we now have antibiotics. Well, yes

> and no. In the case of root-filled teeth, the no

> longer-living tooth lacks a blood supply to its

> interior. So circulating antibiotics don't faze the

> bacteria living there because they can't get at

> them.

>

> MJ You're assuming that ALL root-filled teeth

> harbor bacteria and/or other infective agents?

>

> GM Yes. No matter what material or technique

> is used - and this is just as true today - the root

> filling shrinks minutely, perhaps microscopically.

> Further and this is key - the bulk of solid

> appearing teeth, called the dentin, actually

> consists of miles of tiny tubules. Microscopic

> organisms lurking in the maze of tubules simply

> migrate into the interior of the tooth and set up

> housekeeping. A filled root seems to be a favorite

> spot to start a new colony.

>

> One of the things that makes this difficult to

> understand is that large, relatively harmless

> bacteria common to the mouth, change and adapt to

> new conditions. They shrink in size to fit the

> cramped quarters and even learn how to exist (and

> thrive!) on very little food. Those that need oxygen

> mutate and become able to get along without it. In

> the process of adaptation these formerly friendly

> " normal " organisms become pathogenic (capable of

> producing disease) and more virulent (stronger) and

> they produce much more potent toxins.

>

> Today's bacteriologists are confirming the

> discoveries of the Price team of bacteriologists.

> Both isolated in root canals the same strains of

> streptococcus, staphylococcus and spirochetes.

>

> MJ Is everyone who has ever had a root canal

> filled made ill by it?

>

> GM No. We believe now that every root canal

> filling does leak and bacteria do invade the

> structure. But the variable factor is the strength

> of the person's immune system. Some healthy people

> are able to control the germs that escape from their

> teeth into other areas of the body. We think this

> happens because their immune system lymphocytes

> (white blood cells) and other disease fighters

> aren't constantly compromised by other ailments. In

> other words, they are able to prevent those new

> colonies from taking hold in other tissues

> throughout the body. But over time, most people with

> root filled teeth do seem to develop some kinds of

> systemic symptoms they didn't have before.

>

> MJ It's really difficult to grasp that

> bacteria are imbedded deep in the structure of

> seemingly-hard, solid looking teeth.

>

> GM I know. Physicians and dentists have that

> same problem, too. You really have to visualize the

> tooth structure - all of those microscopic tubules

> running through the dentin. In a healthy tooth,

> those tubules transport a fluid that carries

> nourishment to the inside. For perspective, if the

> tubules of a front single-root tooth, were stretched

> out on the ground they'd stretch for three miles!

>

> A root filled tooth no longer has any fluid

> circulating through it, but the maze of tubules

> remains. The anaerobic bacteria that live there seem

> remarkably safe from antibiotics. The bacteria can

> migrate out into surrounding tissue where they can

> " hitch hike " to other locations in the body via the

> bloodstream. The new location can be any organ or

> gland or tissue, and the new colony will be the next

> focus of infection in a body plagued by recurrent or

> chronic infections.

>

> All of the " building up " done to try to

> enhance the patient's ability to fight infections -

> to strengthen their immune system - is only a

> holding action. Many patients won't be well until

> the source of infection - the root canal tooth - is

> removed.

>

> MJ I don't doubt what you're saying, but can

> you tell us more about how Dr. Price could be sure

> that arthritis or other systemic conditions and

> illnesses really originated in the teeth - or in a

> single tooth?

>

> GM Yes. Many investigations start with the

> researcher

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