Dental Health Series: Part 3 – Root Canals

written by David Russell, Ph.D., D.Sc |

When the living part of the tooth, the pulp, is severely damaged or invaded by decay, the tooth will die and infection may spread to the jawbone tissue. A root canal is a dental procedure used to resolve the infection and prevent having to extract the tooth. At first glance, this procedure seems logical, but the chronic health problems created by root canals far outweigh their advantages.

The root canal procedure removes all of the nerves and blood/lymph vessels that extend from the tooth’s root to the pulp. In a healthy state, these nerves and vessels provide nourishment to the pulp. The empty root is then filled with a material to prevent the dead pulp from forming bacteria that will inflame the surrounding ligament and bone. Removing the nerve and vascular tissues kills the tooth and stops the inflammation caused by the decay, as well as alleviates the pain caused by the inflamed nerves. This procedure allows the tooth to remain in place, though it is no longer living or biologically integrated in the body’s systems. One of the problems of root canals is that the body will always try to reject and “clean out” the presence of dead tissues in its ligaments and bones. It’s like having a splinter in your finger that you can’t remove—the body will eventually reject the splinter on its own.

A more serious problem is that the materials used to fill the root canal have particles that are too big to fill the small tubules, or channels, extending from the main canal into the tooth pulp. Thus, they remain open and bacteria develop in them. One of the main bacteria that forms in these spaces is the same bacteria involved with Lyme disease. The bacteria in a root canal mutate, however, and shed their cell walls and therefore do not stimulate the immune system to initiate a healing process. These pathological bacteria then move throughout the body’s systems creating the basis for many chronic diseases , including heart disease and arthritis. These and other chronic diseases are considered to be isolated problems by the medical profession. Conventional doctors never look at the possibility of these pathologies being connected to the teeth. Natural medical practitioners often find that when they recommend the extraction of a tooth that has a root canal, other health issues are resolved.

The concept behind root canals directly opposes nature’s way of dealing with seriously diseased teeth. If we look at the anatomy of the jawbone, we see that the teeth are not directly part of the bone. Rather, they are suspended like hammocks in the bone packet by small ligaments that hold the teeth in place. In the wisdom of nature, increasing inflammation and infection causes a tooth to loosen so that it can fall out. A dentist can facilitate this by pulling the tooth. Contradicting nature’s law by keeping a dead tooth in the mouth at any cost is a bad idea. A badly infecte...

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