Vowel Lady,

What happened to this woman is probably more common than realized because it is common for this to be misdiagnosed over and over again. Only for the person to later be diagnosed with the "complications" rather than the cause. So in the persons record, the true culprit is never acknowledged.

On the video page, did you read down that page under "What Happened To Us"? It goes on to say how treating the problem earlier with removal of the tooth may have prevented the permanent damage that she has suffered. And because the surgery to remove the tooth was delayed, it was then not possible to clear out the contaminated bone completely. Again, she was misdiagnosed by her dentists and physician over and over again.

This information focused on the use of sargenti paste as a disinfectant during the root canal procedure. Which by the way is all that was used up until about 10 or so years ago. To this day, it is still being used, even in places where it is no longer legal to use it. And as we all have discovered here, dentists are not that open to informing their patients about ... too much of anything.

One huge fact that all of this information deliberately neglects to inform the public about is that ALL root canaled teeth irrelevant of whether sargenti was used or not, are chronically infected with gangrenous bacteria. So what happened to this woman, can and does happen to others who have root canaled teeth where that bacteria takes hold of the jaw bone. It should be noted that the evidence of jaw bone infection is typically not picked up on a dental radio graph until it is moderate to severe. Often the only symptoms are vague and may not even be in the exact area of the tooth.

In the cases similar to this woman's, the patient is usually told by their dentist and physician .... "I have never seen this before (BS!).... Your body rejected the root canal.... The root canal was not done properly.... The filling material was short of the apex." The patient doesn't know any better and they want to believe that their dentist/physician is being truthful with them. Rarely if ever is the patient properly informed simply because physicians are uninformed and dentists and their staff are educated to "retain" teeth no matter what. Strongly included in that "dental" education is the money aspect of performing endodontic therapy and no one wants to give that up. Unfortunately, this is the hard truth about the dental profession as I have witnessed it thousands+++ times over the last 3 decades and it's not getting any better among the conventional dental profession.

Bryanna