3 Miles of Dentin Tubules

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Someone sent me the following:

" ...The dentin makes up the majority of the tooth's structure. To

the naked eye it appears to be solid; however, when viewed through a

microscope, millions of small hollow tubules are visible. If all of

the tubules in an average-size front tooth were placed end to end

they would form a hollow tube over three miles long!... "

http://www.sacredconnection.ndo.co.uk/Health%20Awareness/Root%

20canal%20treatment%20 & %20mercury%20amalgam.htm

" ...and the problem is that the infection occurs in what is known as

the dentin of the tooth. the dentin involves 95% of all of the tooth

substance and surprisingly, although it's almost as hard as enamel

when it's cut with a drill it makes a shrill noise just like if you

were cutting stone, and you would think it was a very hard solid

substance. surprisingly it's composed of little tiny tubules, and

those tubules are so small that if we took our smallest front tooth

and stretched it out - stretched those tubules out end to end - it

would stretch out for a distance of 3 miles. now what happens is

when you get a cavity in a tooth and the decay gets into the dentin

of the tooth the bacteria that are involved in the decay process get

into those tubules. i should tell you that initially those tubules

carry a fluid and that that fluid carries nutriments and the

nutriments in those dentin tubules keep the tooth alive and healthy.

and those nutriments come from the nerve and the blood vessels that

come into the root canal of the tooth. and so fundamentally what

happens when you get a deep cavity and it exposes the nerve of the

tooth, those bacteria get into all of those dentin tubules and they

remain in there causing infection and eventually they can escape and

that's a story in itself. they can escape in what's known as the

lateral canals and there toxins can actually escape directly through

the root surface into what's called the peridontal membrane or

ligament. this is a hard fibrous tissue which holds the tooth in the

bony socket, and when the infection gets into there it transfers

easily into the bony socket and from there the bacteria and the

bacterial toxins can get into the surrounding bone and the blood

supply of that surrounding bone. and now this acts much like cancer

cells, you know cancer cells metastasize and that means that they

travel around the body in the bloodstream and they get to another

tissue, gland or organ and they set up a new cancer. well these

bacteria from infected dentin tubules also travel around and

metastasize in the same way and they can get into the various

tissue. those bacteria are kind of like people, you know, if they

get to like seattle or reno or someplace they decide that's where

they're going to have their home, well the bacteria traveling around

the body, they may get to the liver, the kidneys or the heart or the

eyes or some other tissue and they set up an infection in that area.

so this is exactly what happens and why the degenerative diseases

occur from these teeth... "

http://www.lauralee.com/index.cgi?page=articles/rootc.htm

There are references all over the net. For example it's mentioned

again at Dr. Mercola site:

http://www.mercola.com/2001/apr/25/cavitations.htm

So, despite this quote " miles of dentin tubules " is being used all

over the place, technically, it's a bit misleading, because the

tubules aren't laid out in a linear fashion. If they were, a

measurement of one tooth would contain " 3 miles " . But I don't think

anyone really thinks that the quote is to be taken literally because

if it were, our teeth would have to be extremely large! lol!