The Focal Infection Theory, While Rarely Talked About Now

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The Focal Infection Theory, While Rarely Talked About Now

Copyright 2006 SSLI Health Group

The gum crevices surrounding every tooth, and particularly

between teeth, are loaded with bacteria, plus food debris

and calculus deposits which also contain bacteria. Some

bleeding during scaling and curetting procedures can

easily introduce these bacteria and toxines into the

bloodstream and result in bacteremia that can seriously

damage the heart.

This means that even during tooth brushing, flossing,

toothpick use, or chewing hard crusty items of food, it is

easy to start minor bleeding which can allow mouth bacteria

to be introduced into the blood stream. Scientific tests

have established that bleeding of the gums can cause a

high incidence of bacteremia; that is, bacteria in the

blood.

The fight against the focal infection theory was mainly

carried out by Doctors Percy Howe and buckley.

Howe based his opposition on a study he conducted injecting

rabbits with normal placid streptococcus bacteria secured

from the mouth, not bacteria from an infection site or a

root filled tooth.

In his investigation, none of the animals became sick or

died. Buckley was unable to see how infected teeth which

showed excellent evidence of bone repair after root canal

therapy could possibly still be infected. Then too, because

some who had root filled teeth removed did not recover, he

questioned the validity of the conclusion that a percentage

of patients did get well due to the removal of a tooth or

teeth.

The arguments of these two men were weak and they failed to

consider or believe. That poor nutrition and inherited

genetic problems are also causes of degenerative diseases.

That oral bacteria do not act in the same manner as do the

germs that cause measles, smallpox, mumps, scarlet fever,

etc.

That when teeth become infected, oral bacteria find the

dentin tubules an ideal cave-like hiding place, and these

germs and their toxins- like the viruses that cause cancer

- metastasize and escape to infect hearts, joints,

kidneys, lungs, the stomach, eyes, and countless other

tissues.

That what makes these bacteria so dangerious is their

ability to become polymorphic; that is, to mutate,

adapt,change,become smaller, anaerobic,more virulent and

more toxic.

That pregnant women or others experiencing a higher than

normal degree of stress become particularly susceptible to

diseases arising from oral infection sources.

By the mid-thirties, most physicians and dentists believed

the focal infection theory to be correct and valid.

With the advent of penicillin, there arose the belief that

antibiotics could cure all these probelms, and little is

heard today about focal infections.

However, the fact is that antibiotics can't get inside the

dentin tubules once a tooth loses its blood supply due to

root canal treatment. If antibiotics can't get inside

tubules, they can't get inside the dentin tubules once a

tooth losses its blood supply due to root canal treatment.

If antibiotics can't get inside tubules, they can't kill

the bacteria therein.

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