Amit,
Just to clarify... I did not say that the root canal was not the cause of your neuralgia. I happen to believe based on my professional experience working with thousands of dental patients that the root canal procedure itself.... as well as root canaled teeth since they are chronically infected.... can easily be the cause of certain types of neuralgia.
What I said to you about the onset of your problems being prior to the rc procedure was pertaining to a cavitation in which any infected tooth, root canaled or not, that has been retained (kept in the mouth), for any length of time can cause a cavitation to occur in the jawbone. You had your root canal done in 2009 and although you thought you were symptom free for 2-3 yrs, the infection and inflammation was actually brewing the entire time. According to you, you had symptoms of neuralgia for 2 years or so before you had the tooth removed. So a cavitation could have been occurring prior to the rc procedure and then progressed over the years. Since the sites were not debrided thoroughly, the bacteria and diseased tissue is still present in the bone. An oral surgeon has to determine if further surgery is necessary. But you need to be very clear on what your symptoms are, the durations of your symptoms and what you hope to achieve.
I also must agree that dental patients are not properly informed of the health risks of retaining diseased teeth and I believe everyone has a right to be informed. However, most people do not want to have their teeth extracted and the only option then would be to do the root canal. Dentists know that this is only a temporary, at best, remedy for a patient to retain their unhealthy tooth. But many people would rather keep their sick tooth than lose it. I have had countless patients who after being fully informed by me about the systemic risks of retaining their infected tooth, to still opt to have the rc procedure done.
The root canal procedure is a huge money maker especially since it can be done on the same tooth many times only to end up with the same or worse outcome. It is something that is offered as a temporary way to retain a tooth for an undetermined amount of time to people who are adamant about keeping their teeth. All dentists know this is only at best a temporary remedy but unfortunately it is not marketed as being temporary nor is the information about the systemic consequences disclosed to the patient. Extracting teeth and living without our natural teeth also carry their share of consequences which should be explained to the patient as well.
Dentists are not evil people. They are practicing what they have been taught and that is what they earn their living on doing. Many do not even give a second thought to how their patients dental health affects their overall health. Those teachings were not emphasized in their schooling as much as the technical teachings were.
The irony behind what you have said about society is already true. We are a society of critically diseased people and amongst the many common health risks that people have, the two that always come to my mind are mercury fillings and root canaled teeth. Sure gives us something to think about....
Bryanna
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Originally Posted by amitsa
Hi Bryanna,
From what I conclude from your post is that Dentists are literally cheating the people for their own selfish monetary gains. It is a bad bad world. The picture is ghastly and pitiful. Most people go in for a root canal therapy with an uninformed consent. They are uninformed about its dangers which amounts to actually cheating the people. How would a layman know about its dangers. The dentist has to inform him about it. If he doesn't ,it means he is being unethical. Will the dentist consent to take responsibility for the systemic diseases a person might get due to his root canal procedure ? The answer is No. Is this what medicine is all about ? Isn't a person's life
important ? Why should a person suffer for his dentist's greed for money ? By keeping him uninformed, the dentist is literally playing with the person's health. This is a very serious issue. Has a person's life got no value ? Everyday millions of root canals are being done putting innumerable lives at stake. Dentists are creating diseased people. A day will come when you will have a society full of serious diseases. And who will be responsible for this ?
Has the dentist ever thought of what a person afflicted with serious systemic diseases due to his root canal is going through ? Has any dentist ever thought of the pain and suffering such a person is going through ? Imagine if the dentist gets these diseases ,how would he feel ? I dont agree with you that I had neuralgia before my root canal. All my problems have cropped up only after this root canal mess. I have tried Oxcarbazepine for my neuralgia. I am currently taking Pregabalin 150 mg daily for my neuralgia and that too isn't helping because the root cause is the bacteria. Who is responsible for this? I think it is the dentist who did my root canal without informing me of its HIDDEN dangers. I have fever every other day and get night sweats which my haematologist said are due to the borderline auto immune disease. Who is responsible for this ? *admin edit*
I know if you are a whistleblower,you will be ostracized by the dental associations. I suppose that was the case with Meinig. But I respect Price,Meinig and Hal Huggins. They are the REAL dentists. Because they
considered public health above their own monetary interests. The rest are just money makers or I would call them Dental terrorists not dentists. I would rather live like an Ostracized dentist than a Dental terrorist.I would personally give preference to public health over my monetary interests. I will have peace of mind that way.
I beg and request all my brothers and sisters on this forum. Avoid root canals.
Avoid root canals...... I wish I could write this a million times.
Dont compromise your health with degenerative diseases for this dangerous procedure. Whats the point in living a life full of deadly systemic diseases just for the sake of a tooth.
Dont fall a prey to your dentist's allurements and suggestions for a root canal.
Take the back seat and think. Read and do research before you want to go for this procedure if at all you do not believe in me.Gutta percha can never seal off the root canal no matter how hard one tries. There are innumerable accessory canals through which bacteria are going to reach the apex of the tooth. The dentists never inform people about these accessory canals.
As Dr Hal Huggins says in some people, root canal may be asymptomatic for decades because they have a very good immune system. Even then a RC will put an UNNECESSARY HEAVY burden on your immune system.
It will have to fight the bacteria day and night UNNECESSARILY. It is uncalled for. It will eventually shorten their life.
Also I would use this forum to request the Australian Dental Association (if at all anybody from there is reading it) to ban root canals. I have requested the Indian Dental Association. But in our country India, they follow blindly what the US and UK does. They consider them as benchmarks because they are developed countries. So unless and until these two countries
ban them, unfortunately the IDA is not gonna do it. And I dont think it is ever going to happen because we have greedy dentists everywhere. If they dont pay any heed to eminent dentists like Price, Meinig and Huggins ,how will
they ever hear me ? Its a pity that in all the countries, the dentists are just concerned about their money and not about the health of their patients. This is really very unfortunate and ghastly.
My earnest imploration - Stay away from root canals.Get tooth extracted. Live a disease free life.
-Amit.
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