Six Common Dental Procedures That can Harm Your Health, and How Environmental Dentistry

re: Six Common Dental Procedures That can Harm Your Health, and How Environmental Dentistry

BeyondBody — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:56:43 GMT

I have read about how bad root canals are for my health and have 3 of them. But what else to do? What is the alternative to the root canal - to extract the tooth?

re: Six Common Dental Procedures That can Harm Your Health, and How Environmental Dentistry

seasonsmom17 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:54:31 GMT

Ok, now I didn't know about amalgam fillings when I had 10 done after arriving to the US and having passed a clean bill of health in a 3rd world country prior to that. I also had no clue about root canals being bad for my health. But I did know that I was out of pain and swelling after that root canal surgery. So what to do when I one is in pain? Deny it and yank the tooth out and shed $$$ for implants? . Now, my 8 yo child needs a pulpotomy (partial root canal) and I have no clue what to do. It's on a molar and she will have it for another 2-3 years. I have no where to look for a second opinion since the root canal spec who did my root canal would of course vote for the pulpotomy. So, what are the alternatives to the rootcanal? I am really stumped. Pull the tooth out and chew with what?

re: Six Common Dental Procedures That can Harm Your Health, and How Environmental Dentistry

soft1t — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:40:05 GMT

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The problem with getting rid of Amalgam fillings has always been that there is still no effective, long-term substitute. Composite fillings only last on average of five years, versus 20+ years for Amalgam. Each time you replace the fillings you need to remove a little bit more of the tooth.

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With full respect, this is such as BS. My first three amalagm fillings at the age of ten fell out within months. Another amalgam fillng I had broke in two and broke the tooth, too.

For an amalgam filling to sit tight, the dentist must remove a huge--and I mean huge--chunk of a perfectly helthy tooth tissue, because if they don't the amalgam will fall off (and possibly be swallowed). I learned it the hard way when another dentist tried to put an amalgam filling between two of my molars. He drilled and drilled until there was nothing left of the teeth. I got root canals in both of them and lost these two teeth subsequently (I got Titanium implants there now). With composite fillings, you can fill in as small a cavity as you physically can drill, so your argument about the dentist "needing" to remove "a little bit more" of the tooth wit composite is monumental BS. With Mercury fillings, you loose a far too big a chunk of the tooth immediately, not just on subsequent visits. And nothing can prevent an amalgam filling from breaking off.

But even if amalgams did last forever, look what happened to Michael G. Fox or Andy Grove (the Intel legend). Their amalgam fillings will outlast them. Is this what you want for yourself?

PS: Are you brain washed by the Mercury-is-healty-let's-get-more-of-it-lobby? Why do you spread BS around? Shame on you.

re: Six Common Dental Procedures That can Harm Your Health, and How Environmental Dentistry

not_worried — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:39:45 GMT

re: Six Common Dental Procedures That can Harm Your Health, and How Environmental Dentistry

VLWood — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:22:22 GMT

Interesting that Dr. Garcia mentions autoimmune disease. My feeling has already been that my now-systemic autoimmune disease did begin 51 years ago in a tooth that had "internal resorption" of the root. The tooth was root-canaled three times, because it continued to hurt, after which I had 50 years of recurrent left-sided face pain, followed, after the first 40 years, by a severe skin outbreak that began on the lower left jaw and eventually spread over most of my body. Mouth sores came next, eventually diagnosed as cicatricial pemphigoid, an autoimmune disease. As often happens with autoimmune diseases, I've also developed symptoms of other autoimmune diseases, both neurological and gastrointestinal, and have been also diagnosed with vitiligo, which is autoimmune, too. Believe me, dentists are just as dangerous as doctors. Both can kill you, and often do. Sometimes we have to go to them, but be very careful about who you get and what you allow them to do to you!