" When a dentist performs a root canal, he or she hollows out the tooth, then fills the hollow chamber with a substance (called guttapercha), which cuts off the tooth from its blood supply, so fluid can no longer circulate through the tooth. But the maze of tiny tubules remains. And bacteria, cut off from their food supply, hide out in these tunnels where they are remarkably safe from antibiotics and your own body's immune defenses. " from
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/02/18/dangers-of-root-canaled-teeth.aspx
1. What he fails to mention is that dentists disinfect (yes, we know it doesn't sterilize the tooth, just kills almost all the bacteria) the inside of the tooth with hypochlorite (bleach) and calcium hydroxide before filling with gutta percha. Endodontists are well aware of the tiny dentinal tubules that we call accessory canals and lateral canals. Furthermore, this argument makes ZERO sense (as does the remainder of his article), as there is a blood supply to the bone around the tooth (this is why your mouth bleeds when you get a tooth extracted).
2. If this is a big cover up by dentistry, then it is a big cover-up by medicine as well.. Because, medicine still doesn't have answers to what infectious agents cause rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, and other autoimmune diseases. Yet this guy claims he has the answers.
3. "
Since When is Leaving A Dead Body Part IN Your Body a Good Idea?
There is no other medical procedure that involves allowing a dead body part to remain in your body. When your appendix dies, it's removed. If you get frostbite or gangrene on a finger or toe, it is amputated. If a baby dies in utero, the body typically initiates a miscarriage."
Firstly.. a tooth was never alive to begin with... The inside of the tooth has blood vessels, but the dentin and enamel are non-vital tissues. And.. if we want to accept his definition of a "dead body part," then we actually do this all the time when we cut our nails or hair. Nails, and hair are similar to teeth, in that they have no living cells. Instead, nails and hair are made up of protein (like the collagen of the teeth).
A tooth is made up of collagen (dentin) and inorganic crystals (hydroxyapetite). There are no cells in this tissue. Bacteria can't eat tooth to produce the nutrients they need. (Bacteria do produce acid which leads to demineralization and cavities). When gangrene occurs, yes surgeons amputate the gangrenous organs because these cells are dead and bacteria will superinfect the organs causing a bigger problem. Bacteria will easily digest these necrotic cells. So, his comparison is a poor one.
Also... appendices don't "die"... They get infected because a blind end pouch develops and bacteria proliferate in a closed sac causing pain. This is when surgeons remove appendices. Another poor understanding of basic medicine.
4. The best argument linking RCTs to cancer is the use of formocresol in disinfection. I'm pretty sure formocresol is banned in use in pediatric patients, but are still used to adults. There is a lot of controversy in the community of whether formocresol is a clinically significant carcinogen or not... This is by far the best argument for his manifest destiny, yet he is too much of an idiot to mention it.
