Root Canal Fillings Getting Better but Still a Problem Depend on Immune System

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Title: Root Canal Fillings Getting Better but Still a Problem Depend on Immune

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Root Canal Fillings Getting Better but Still a Problem Depend on Immune System

Copyright 2006 SSLI Health Group

The perfect filling of a root canal should completely fill

and seal the canal to the very tip of the root.

With all the research done on by untold numbers of

investigations, this ideal has yet to be accomplished.

Keep in mind that any space not occupied by the root canal

filling can be contaminated by the ingress of bacteria

often present in the bloodstream and by bacteria present in

dentin tubules.

The fact that 30 percent of people with root canal fillings

were free of complicating degenerative disease does not

alter the concern about the continuing presence of bacteria

in their root filled teeth. To the 70 percent who are

suffering health problems, inadequately filled root canals

add insult to injury.

Most of the spaces remaining after filling are due to

shrinkage of the root filling material.

Gutta-percha, still the most widely used root filling

material, was scientifically tested by Dr. Price using a

packing device he invented to eliminate usual packing

technique difficulties, yet not a single test filling was

free of leakage.

A 1984 report in the Journal of Endodontia of a new

material, cyanoacrylate, used along with gutta-percha,

found leakage cut down to 0.5 millimeters of space. Though

a big improvement, that still represents a significant

cave-like dwelling area for organisms to accumulate, from

which bacteria can sneak back into the general circulation

and cause body harm.

Dr. Price devised a test using healthy extracted teeth,

which demonstrated how these spaces in root fillings, even

if sterile initially, could become infected from blood

circulation.

Dr. Price stated that neither root fillings nor

sterilization procedures needed to be perfect, providing

the patient's immune system was adequate enough to meet

such challenges.

In spite of all these difficulties, many people have been

free from these secondary infections of teeth because they

happen to be blessed with immune systems able to

satisfactorily control the organisms and thereby prevent a

degenerative disease takeover.

One other somewhat related investigation was undertaken by

Dr.Price, which was to determine if teeth that contained

root fillings and were sterile would keep their sterility.

In this study healthy extracted teeth were root filled

outside of the mouth using sterile techniques. They were

found to have remained sterile for two or more weeks. At

that point the outside of these teeth were contaminated by

subjecting them to a culture medium which contained

pathogenic bacteria. The test was made to see if bacteria

would penetrate the outside surfaces of the tooth and

travel inwardly to the root canal. In most instances, in

but a few weeks time the organisms were found inside the

tooth structure and in or beside the root filling material,

thereby proving that bacteria could find their way through

the lateral accessory canals and dentin tubules back in the

tooth.

About the Author:

Dr. Meinig,D.D.S.,F.A.C.D. is a Founder of the

Association of Root Canal Specialists Discovers Evidence

That Root Canals Damage Your Health Learn What to Do.

Learn how Dr. Meinig discovered that a meticulous 25

year research program, conducted by Weston A. Price, DDS,

under the auspices of the American Dental Association's

Research Institute was buried.

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Edited and prepared by Sung Lee, alternate author