Dr. Katie To describes patients who had heart attacks but showed only one abnormality on full-body scans: an infected root canal with no symptoms. Hidden dental infections can trigger systemic inflammation and heart events. Some patients are too inflamed to receive zirconia implants and need titanium instead.
That tooth could be the reason why I could have a heart attack. And some people did have a heart attack and they did a full body scan and the only thing they find is an infected root canal that's not hurting. And that's how they end up in offices like ours. So I think that when you are asked questions like, is this bad, titanium, zirconia, who are you treating? Because in some cases we see the person, their body is so inflamed and so toxic, they could not even receive zirconia implant. Because there's other inflammation and infection somewhere else. So we have to look at the whole body, and that's why biological dentists working with medical team— we're not a solo practitioner where we think we can fix everything, because we need the medical community to support us and to help the patient to see the big pictures.
