Root Canal Disinfectants, Antibiotics Prove Inadequate to Eradicate Bacteria

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Root Canal Disinfectants, Antibiotics Prove Inadequate to Eradicate Bacteria

Copyright 2006 SSLI Health Group

The bacteria dentists use to determine whether treatment of

a root canal infection has been successful, namely the

absence of discomfort and pain; x-ray evidence that

abscessed areas, granulomas and cysts have completely

filled in with new bone; and trust that the medicaments

used in producing these results completely eradicated

bacteria, all proved inadequate when such teeth were

subjected to further testing by Dr. Price and his group.

Testing for the preseence of bacteria in root canal, after

the use of disinfectants which appeared to have controlled

the infections, proved that the organisms had not been

eradicated.

Dr. Price, in making cultures after the use of over 100

different medicaments, including different strengths of

each, found only eight which had negative responses after

24 hours, and only two after 48 hours of incubation; longer

periods were found to be ineffective as medicaments lost

their disinfecting power.

The two most efficient medicaments proved to be

objectionable - silver nitrate because it turned teeth

black and formalin because it was very irritating and

painful to patients and destructive to surrounding tissues.

Though culturing to determine whether bacteria had been

killed was formerly taught and practiced, I know of no

dentists using such a testing procedure today.

Dr. Price in another series of tests took extracted

infected teeth and treated them (much easier to do

aseptically outside of the mouth) and found when these

teeth were sectioned their dentin and cementum were still

infected.

In still another investigation, Dr. Price made biopsy

sections at and below the gum line and found bacteria

present not only in the root of the teeth and their

protective cementum but also in the first millimeter or two

of adjacent bone. The importance of this factor in causing

cavitations in bone after extractions will be discussed in

a later chapter.

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Dr. Price noted future developments might bring forth

medicaments which are more successful. You will all be

thinking that antibiotics are certainly the answer.

However, antibiotics have not proven able to effectively

penetrate the dentin tubules, cementum and adjacent bone

sufficiently to eradicate these bacteria.

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Testing of new medicaments, and current efforts such as new

laser treatment methods, are of course necessary and were

anticipated by Dr. Price.

All of these root canal side-effect problems should not

deter the profession from continuing to explore new methods

of how to save teeth. While we cannot learn how to save

teeth by extracting them, Dr. Price fortunately has shown

us ways to test procedures to prove whether infection has

been eradicated in teeth we think we have saved.

About the Author:

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

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Edited and prepared by Sung Lee, alternate author