Dr. Katie To explains that root canals kill the tooth by removing its blood supply and nerves, leaving a dead organ the body treats like a splinter. A root-canal-treated tooth can become a source of chronic, painless inflammation that drains systemically, she says, referencing the 2018 documentary Root Cause.
Who's in here have root canals? This is, this is eye-opening, all right? Procedure that keep the dead tooth in your body. Who in here watched the movie Root Cause? It's 2018. One of the famous person in that movie is back there, Dawn. She's actually the reason why that movie was being made. A root canal is really a procedure to kill your tooth. So if you look at a tooth, tooth is an organ. So when you look at one individual tooth, each tooth is an organ. You have two kidney, one heart, and you have three, two teeth. Teeth. Yes, they took out your wisdom teeth, so you have 28. If they take out 4 more teeth for your braces when you were younger, you now have 24, right? So a lot of Americans have a lot less teeth than they think. And so there's blood supply, the nerve, their lymphatic inside your tooth. When they kill the tooth to the root canal, they took all of that out. There's no more nerve in it, there's no more blood flow in it. Really, I tell my patient, when you have a root canal, it's like a giant splinter in your jaw. That's how your body look at it. What happened when you have a splinter in your fingers? It hurt, pus coming in, swollen. Well, your body trying to do the same with the root canal, but it's bone, so it takes longer and usually is painless because you cannot feel the pain. Plus the mouth is an upstream, so it's been draining to the rest of the body.
