I’m often asked by patients who are choosing between doing a root canal or extracting their tooth, ‘Alright doc, I get that my tooth is infected, what are my choices? What would you do if it was your tooth?’ The rest of this post discusses my best...
I’m often asked what to do about old root canal infections. Should I try to save the tooth by doing a root canal, or extract the tooth and replace it with an artificial tooth? The short answer is, it depends on the situation and history of the tooth. But it...
As an integrative dentist, I do a lot of writing about root canals: the good, the bad and the ugly. I say ugly because I have seen a lot of bad situations with root canals over the years. Usually when root canals go bad, it’s either due to technique, materials...
What causes existing root canals to become infected and fail? In the photo to the right you can see a common presentation of an infected tooth. In this case, an old root canal that has failed is draining pus and infection from the tooth. As the...
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 canals are bad for you? Or that a titanium implant blocks the meridian flow, or can corrode because of the acids in...
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 few weeks, I will be reviewing some basic positions on root canals and their effect on systemic health. I’m...
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