The Toxic Tooth: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS by Robert Kulacz, DDS and Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD

 

 The Toxic Tooth: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS by Robert Kulacz, DDS and Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD

 

 

 

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DISCLAIMER

This book is intended to be an information resource only. There is no intent that this book be used for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. A specific doctor/patient or dentist/patient relationship is necessary before any medical or dental therapies are initiated. In no manner should this book, or any of the information in this book, be used as a substitute for diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical and/or dental healthcare professional.

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Copyright © 2014 by Robert Kulacz, DDS and Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD First Edition: 2014
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014916717
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DEDICATED

to George E. Meinig, DDS, FACD (1914-2008), a tireless patient advocate and author of Root Canal Cover-Up

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Boyd E. Haley, PhD

Preface

Introduction: Why We Are Questioning the Safety of Root Canal Treatments—Again

Chapter One: The Case Against Root Canal Treatment Chapter Two: Objective of Root Canal Treatment Chapter Three: Evaluation of Root Canal Treatment Chapter Four: Faulty Fall-Back of Root Canal Treatment Chapter Five: Impact of Root Canal Treatment

Chapter Six: Defense of Root Canal Treatment
Chapter Seven: Case Histories of Root Canal Treatment Chapter Eight: Experience with Root Canal Treatment Chapter Nine: Alternatives to Root Canal Treatment Chapter Ten: Consenting to Root Canal Treatment Chapter Eleven: Testimonials about Root Canal Treatment Chapter Twelve: Beyond Root Canal Treatment
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E

Appendix F Appendix G Appendix H References
About the Authors

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As I have in the past, I want to thank my wife, Lis, and my daughter, Daniela, for making me so important in their lives and allowing me to live my life to the fullest. I especially want to thank my dear Mother, who passed away just before this book was published, as she has always been my number one friend, and she has always given me the most support for all my endeavors in life. I never did anything that I did not discuss with her first. Also, my sister, Cathy, has always been a strong source of comfort and support for me as well.

My good friend and colleague, Ron Hunninghake, has continued his invaluable support in allowing me to discuss and properly analyze any wild thought that comes into my head. So many of my thoughts would never have evolved without him.

Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD

The love and support of my wife Susan continues to give me the strength to never waver in my search for the truth. You got more than you bargained for when you married me; thank you for believing in me. My daughters Jackie and Jenna who let me be a kid again. You always make me proud.

To Bob Bull who has dramatically improved my tennis game: Thanks for being a great friend. Pretty soon I will beat you in a match!

And to all my other friends at Saw Mill Club, Steve and Lynne Levine, Lori Stern, Joe Bottino, Paul Cantor, Kevin Kane, Donna Arena, Miles Slater, Tom Formichella, Peter DeJong, Christopher Hussar for your encouragement and humor. I am very lucky to have you all in my life. To Marc and Nancy Epstein, you understand me and still like me, so thanks!

Robert Kulacz, DDS Mutual Acknowledgments

Thanks and a great deal of gratitude are extended to Les and Cindy Nachman, without whom this book would not be a reality. And finally, a big thanks to Dave Nicol, who could not be a better editor. We often ended up expanding upon his thoughts, rather than just having him package our thoughts better. The book is enormously better because of him.

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FOREWORD BY BOYD E. HALEY, PHD

This book by Drs. Kulacz and Levy should be required reading for all physicians and dentists. First, all the research that I have read over the years has supported the ideas of Dr. Weston Price that doing root canals on teeth makes them susceptible to multiple types of infection by bacteria that cause different systemic type infections. Dr. Price’s research was brilliant for its time.

However, the discoveries of Dr. Price caused problems for an area of dentistry called endodontics that was developing into a very lucrative business. His research was actively attacked by those who wanted no discussion on the safety of their money-making procedures. However, a Dr. George Meinig, one of the early endodontists who had issues with the root canal procedure’s safety, wrote a book called “Root Canal Cover-Up” which brought more to the forefront of the health dangers of the root canal procedure with regards to the causation link to multiple systemic infections.

Both Dr. Price and Dr. Meinig were attacked by their peers who wanted to maintain the illusion of root canals being safe. Dr. Kulacz is just one of the latest to feel the unjustified wrath of the Endodontic profession for asserting that infected, root canal-treated teeth could be the focal source for remote infections. Such infections, caused by the delivery of microbes from the infected teeth into the bloodstream, end up in specific organs and sites throughout the body, resulting in various systemic illnesses.

I was personally introduced to this issue through my involvement in the likely toxicological problems caused by mercury vapor escaping from dental amalgams. Dr. Hal Huggins informed me that the toxicity from teeth with root canals was much worse than the mercury vapor from an amalgam- filled tooth. I didn’t at all believe him but he insisted that I check out some teeth that he had extracted from patients, some with and some without root canals.

My research assistants were startled at the level of toxicity against brain enzymes that was observed by merely placing the teeth into distilled water and then testing the ability of this “tooth treated water” to inhibit or kill important enzymes found in brain tissue. From this initial simple testing we

developed a procedure to test both teeth and gum-related crevicular fluid for toxic effects. The overall finding can be summarized by stating that dead tissue like root canal-treated teeth, if left in the body, will become infected with pathogenic bacteria, and this infection can, and usually does, spread to other parts of the body. When we tested teeth with root canals sent to us by dentists we never found a tooth that wasn’t toxic to some degree. However, some were extremely toxic indicating that they were capable of sending bacteria and exotoxins to other body locations that could cause extreme illnesses.

We were challenged by endodontists that this translocation of infective microbes could not and did not occur since some endodontists had attempted to prove Dr. Price’s “focal infection theory” to be invalid years earlier. In my opinion, the science that “proved” Dr. Price wrong was very questionable and poorly done.

However, a recent technology that won its inventor a Nobel Prize in Science, called Polymerase Chain Reaction or PCR, came into play and has provided incredible scientific support to Dr. Price’s focal infection theory. Simply stated, PCR can identify the infectious bacteria found to cause multiple systemic infections such as placenta infections leading to preterm labor and low birth weight, infections in atherosclerotic plaques leading to heart attacks, as well as multiple infections found in various organs like the kidneys, liver, etc.

This is not an outrageous concept, as bacteria from the oral cavity are basically the primary source of bacteria causing most systemic infections. The presence of dead, root canal-treated teeth, with the high levels of pathogenic bacteria formed within them from the oral cavity, greatly enhances the delivery of pathogenic microbes and exotoxins into the body. PCR studies have many times identified the source of pathogenic bacteria found in infected organs as being the same as found in root canal-treated teeth from the same patient. To deny this is absurd posturing—but it is done by those who wish to continue making a living by inflicting their patients with dangerous root canals.

Teeth with root canals also lead to jawbone osteonecrosis or cavitations that harbor the same pathogenic microbes that start out in the dead tooth. Cavitations can cause immense pain and suffering as well as donate microbial infections to cause systemic illnesses. In the time that I tested

teeth and debris from cavitations for toxicity I found many teeth with root canals that had lower toxin levels than seen in cavitations. However, I never found any cavitation-derived material that was not extremely toxic to the test enzymes we used.

Over time, I became known to many patients that were treated for this toxicity by removal of teeth with root canals and extraction of the cavitational debris by oral surgery. Considering that this was the initial phase of many dentists trying to help their patients survive the systemic illnesses caused by questionable dental procedures, the success rate was quite impressive. The very scientific PCR studies show that they were on the right track. Yet even today there is strong denial from the Endodontic societies that root canals can lead to systemic infections and disease, and much of the strong scientific proof of the root canal-induced toxicity is ignored. Those that would reveal it are doing so at great personal risk for their professional lives. This book by Drs. Kulacz and Levy details this current struggle.

Dr. Boyd Haley Professor Emeritus Department of Chemistry University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Boyd E. Haley, PhD
CTI Science

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