Toxic Teeth: How Root Canal Procedures Dramatically Increase Your Risk of Chronic Disease

December 11th, 2016

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

Guest writer for Wake Up World

There is a common dental procedure that nearly every dentist will tell you is completely safe, despite the fact that scientists have been warning of its dangers for more than 100 years. Every day in the United States alone, 41,000 of these dental procedures are performed on patients who believe they are safely and permanently fixing their problem.

So what is this dental procedure? The root canal. More than 25 million root canals are performed every year in the United States alone.

Root-canaled teeth are essentially “dead” teeth that can become silent incubators for highly toxic anaerobic bacteria that can, under certain conditions, make their way into your bloodstream to cause a number of serious medical conditions — many not appearing until decades later. Most of these toxic teeth feel and look fine for many years, which make their role in systemic disease even harder to trace back.

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