Re: Root canal gone bad

it is your own tooth, but it is dead.  they remove 1/3 of the roots.  that makes it dead.  the other 2/3 are in the dentin, but they have no nourishment anymore and therefore do not have life. 

Dead Tooth
in a Gold Coffin
Buried in Bone
Just Inches from your Brain

 The aim of Root Canal Therapy is to ‘save’ a tooth which has become infected or dead, in an attempt to make it functional and pain free. 

After scraping out the inside of the tooth the dentist will attempt to disinfect the tooth and the canals to eliminate any source of infection.  The canal is then filled with a combination of cement and Gutta Percha in an attempt to completely occlude these canals.  This is supposedly to prevent any microorganisms from entering the tooth either through the crown or the root. 

If you consider pain control, mechanical function and aesthetics to be the limit of good dental treatment, then you will have "SAVED" the tooth. 

If systemic effects are included in your concept of dentistry, than all that has happened, is that you have kept dead, infected tissue, buried in the bone, within a couple of inches from your brain.

For some obscure reason we are all conditioned to think that teeth are not a part of the body,  but that they are inert calcified material, and that they are sort of dead anyway. Dentistry is the only one of all the medical & para-medical professions that thinks it is a good idea to keep dead, gangrenous tissue in the body.

One eminent Endodontist says:

“It is wrong to speak of  (Root Canal Therapy) as a dead tooth; it is more correct to describe such a tooth as non-vital or, better, pulpless.  Even though the central blood supply to the tooth has been lost, the tooth itself still retains its connection to the body via the periodontal membrane and the cementum.”

The Oxford dictionary defines ‘non-vital’ as “Fatal To Life”.  It defines ‘Dead’ as “No longer Alive”.  It is like saying that even though the blood supply to your leg may be completely cut off, it would be wrong to suggest that the leg is dead, because it is still connected to your body by your hip joint! 

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