Root Canal Articles
26 articles by Dr. O
These articles cover what causes root canal infections and failure, how 3D imaging finds infections that standard x-rays miss, laser disinfection of infected teeth with PIPS, how deep cavities can be treated without a root canal, and how to decide between treating a tooth and extracting it.
Related: Advanced Laser Endodontic Therapy (ALET), Root Canal vs Extraction: 3 Scenarios
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February 4, 2019
Is The “Root Cause” Movie Right About Root Canals?
A lot of my patients have seen The Root Cause movie on Netflix about the perils of root canals. Does the movie have it right when it comes to root can...
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August 14, 2018
How To Heal Root Canals and Infected Teeth with Photon Induced Photoacoustic Streaming
There has been a lot of controversy over the last decade or two about root canals. The disagreement is usually between dentists and root canal special...
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July 19, 2018
Inflammation May Cause Failure in Extractions, Root Canals and Implants: A Case Study
Have you put off doing the dental work you need because you are afraid it might fail? You may have had the right idea! Have you heard that all root ca...
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July 5, 2018
Root Canal vs Extraction: Are Root Canals Toxic to My Body? A Review of Weston Price’s Research 100 years later
Did Dr. Price have it right when he put out his research on infected root canals and the focal infection theory nearly 100 years ago? Over the next fe...
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May 23, 2018
How to Resolve a Root Canal Infection – A Pardigm Shift
A lot of patients come to me seeking help in trying to resolve root canal infections. The problem is that the basic protocol for treating root canals ...
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April 2, 2018
How to Avoid Root Canal Infections
Do all teeth that need crowns automatically need root canals? Absolutely not. Truth be told, in my experience very few teeth that need crowns (or caps...
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February 6, 2018
What is Holistic Dentistry and What Makes It Different?
Holistic dentistry and biological dentistry refer to two different aspects of integrative dental care. Generally speaking the term ‘holistic’ refers t...
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January 15, 2018
First Do No Harm – Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in Dentistry
As a holistic dentist in practice for more than 30 years, I still find myself referring back to the first thing I learned at USC Dental School, first ...
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April 7, 2017
Hidden Root Canal Infections – How We Uncover Long Standing Infections Using 3D Imaging
This image shows a hidden root canal infection and is a follow up to my post earlier this week showing an infected tooth that was not visible on a nor...
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April 3, 2017
How to Confirm a Root Canal Infection
The best way to confirm if a tooth is infected is if the tooth hurts and if the tooth has extreme sensitivity to hot or cold that lingers for a long t...
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March 30, 2017
The Root Canal Epidemic
According to the American Association of Endodontists more than 15,000,000 root canals are done every year in this country alone. Root canals are an a...
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February 20, 2017
Is Root Canal Failure Inevitable?
As a dentist of thirty years, I am always in alignment with wanting to save teeth. That is, almost always. Weston Price, who was the “Leonardo da Vinc...
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