Root Canal Cover Up by George E. Meinig Summary and Reviews
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Book Review: Utter nonsense with a complete lack of understanding of basic medicine
Summary: 1 Stars
This book has more false statements than true statements. Not even matter of opinion differences, just plain false. Additionally, the author heavily relies on faulty studies with conjectural conclusions that are 100+ years old. Root canal treatment is often the only way to save a tooth that is infected. So what are the choices? Lose the tooth and try to replace it. Replacements are getting better all the time, but they are not perfect and fail sometimes. Root canals are not 100% perfect either. Much of the data here is based on the failures, not successful ones. Extrsacting a tooth from an arthritis patient and placing it isn the skin of a rabbit that then gets the same arthritis is absolute nonsense. I believe in free speech, but this book should be outlawed because it can do public harm through false statements. Read it if you want to hear the opinion of a fool. Your dentist does NOT want to do anything that will harm you. To even suggest there is a cover up is lunacy.Book Review: What a FARCE!!! Conspiracy theories abound!! It's not a cover up!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Being a dentist, I find this book appalling. (1) The majority of research comes from pre-WWII era. A lot of technology has been developed since then to improve dental care! (2) Weston Price contributes to most of the book. Weston Price is the founder of "holistic dentistry" , a dentist who maintained that sugar causes not only tooth decay but physical, mental, moral, and social decay as well. Price made a whirlwind tour of primitive areas, examined the natives superficially, and jumped to simplistic conclusions. While extolling their health, he ignored their short life expectancy and high rates of infant mortality, endemic diseases, and malnutrition. While praising their diets for not producing cavities, he ignored the fact that malnourished people don't usually get many cavities.
Price also performed poorly designed studies that led him to conclude that teeth treated with root canal therapy leaked bacteria or bacterial toxins into the body, causing arthritis and many other diseases. This "focal infection" theory led to needless extraction of millions of endodontically treated teeth until well-designed studies, conducted during the 1930s, demonstrated that the theory was not valid.
(3) The human body contains many chemicals, ranging from water and simple charged particles (ions) to complex organic molecules. The amounts vary within limits. Some are in solution and others are not. Legitimate medical practitioners may refer to a specific chemical or a balance between a few chemicals that can be measured. But the idea that "body chemistry" goes in and out of balance is a quack concept.
"Holistic" and "biological" dentists use many approaches that are not only unsound but involve procedures and body areas that are outside of the legitimate scope of dentistry. Some practitioners use hair analysis, computerized dietary analysis, a blood chemistry screening test, or muscle-testing, as a basis for recommending supplements to "balance the body chemistry" of their patients. Hair analysis is not a reliable tool for measuring the body's nutritional state. Computer analysis can be useful for determining the composition of a person's diet and can be a legitimate tool for dietary counseling. Dentists receive training in the nutritional aspects of dental health. However, few are qualified to perform general dietary counseling, and computerized "nutrient deficiency tests" are not legitimate. The blood chemistry tests, usually obtained from a reputable laboratory, are legitimate but misinterpreted. Instead of accepting the laboratory's range of "normal" values, "holistic dentists" use a much narrower range and tell patients that anything outside that range means they are out of balance and need treatment. Muscle-testing is a feature of applied kinesiology, a pseudoscientific system of diagnosis and treatment based on the notion every health problem can be related to a weak muscle and nutritional imbalances.
My advice is simple. Steer clear of dentists who practice "holistic dentistry" or "biological dentistry" or who use or even recommend any of the dubious methods described in this book.
Book Review: helped me connect the dots...
Summary: 5 Stars
After personally, going through some severe sudden unexplainable joint pain in my left knee in the last 5 months and coincidentally 4 out of 6 of my root canals started to fail, this book helped me to connect dots. I never imagined there was a possible correlation between my joint pain and my dental health until I goggled those topics together. Dr. Meinig's name and book kept popping up in my research. This book was instrumental in helping me to decide the difficult but necessary task to have all 6 of my root canals extracted and to my relief the pain is almost non-existent now(my last root canal extraction was 2 weeks ago). For those who are skeptical, I understand. I would have been if I had not gone through my own nightmare of unrelenting agony and sleeplessness. Please note, Dr Meinig does not suggest having root canals removed if a person is not experiencing any health issues, because some people have healthy immune systems and that makes all the difference. But for those who have compromised immune systems along with sudden unexplained health issues...then this book is worth reading and may help you make an informed decision.
Book Review: need to pay more attention to forgotten researches
Summary: 5 Stars
I would recommend everyone interested in learning more on dental side effect reading this book.
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