Root Canal Treatment: How Much Good Health Do You Have to Give Away?
Root Canals The text below is the IABDM’s current position paper on root canal treatment by Dr. Dawn Ewing. You can access other position papers, as well as our standards of practice here. Dr. Ralph Steinman of Loma Linda University long ago proved that the flow of fluid...
Root Canaled Teeth & Gangrene: What Do They Have in Common?
Root Canals By Carol Wells, RDH This paper originally appeared in the January 2019 issue of the Scientific Archives of Dental Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 1). When I first heard the word “gangrene,” I would not have thought that it would be referring to a root canaled...
Septic Tank Teeth (abridged)
Root Canals Root canals are dead bodies (and, as such, should be buried six feet below Earth’s surface)! By R.S. Carlson, DDS Let us get clear about the issue, really. Some will argue that the “gangrene of the tooth” is limited to the soft tissue within the tooth’s pulp chamber,...Root Canals, Dental Implants, Endotoxemia
Biological Dentistry From “Controversy? Not for Me!” by Ronald S. Carlson, DDS In dental surgery, we (I do not!) advocate, unlike our medical colleagues, the retention of gangrenous tissues within the oral cavity. You may know them as “root canals.” Controversy abounded 100 years ago...Follow Us!
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