lol do root canals cause cancer?

suzannesimmons1

glassyo wrote: »

Oh man, my favorite endodontist was NOT stingy with the anesthesia.

I've had a few and the only one that truly was torture was this one woman who shot anesthesia in the roof of my mouth and it hurt so much I turned into Linda Blair in the Exorcist.

(The arching the back all the way out of the chair part (that was a part, right?)...not the head spinning part. Or the peeing on the floor part.)

No lie.

Oh God me too...I nearly passed out because the pain was so bad I couldn't breathe.

80sSynthwave

Just happened to be studying some A&P and came across this. Maybe this is similar to what was contained in the documentary

80sSynthwave

Chronic inflammation promotes aethroscloritic plaque in the body, especially in the gums. Just read that while studying some A&P, and some studies contend it contributes to cardiovascular disease. Maybe that's what the documentary was referring to.

lorri71

From a dental nurse of 14 years I have never heard of Root Canal causing cancer. An untreated infection however csn cause sepsis! If the tooth is abcessed you will need antibiotics to clear the infection before the root canal treatment or the tooth will not go numb. You do root canal either because of an infection and decay has got to the nerve or the tooth has died. Either way you should not feel anything once numb. Get a good dentists advice rather than netflx.

whoami67

I believe the idea of root canals causing cancer (and other diseases) was first put forth by Dr. Weston A. Price in the 1920's based on his research of the dental health of native populations around the world. A number of other researchers have documented the correlation. I don't believe there's been much research to disprove the theory. I didn't see the Netflix show so I don't know what the controversy was there.

lynn_glenmont

whoami67 wrote: »

I believe the idea of root canals causing cancer (and other diseases) was first put forth by Dr. Weston A. Price in the 1920's based on his research of the dental health of native populations around the world. A number of other researchers have documented the correlation. I don't believe there's been much research to disprove the theory. I didn't see the Netflix show so I don't know what the controversy was there.

Wait ... the "evidence" is a study that compared cancer rates in populations that didn't have what was then modern dental care to cancer rates in populations that did? How did they control for all the other differences between industrialized cultures where root canals were practiced and presumably pre-industrialized cultures where it wasn't?