Dr. Katie To explains how tooth pain can signal problems elsewhere in your body through meridian connections. A patient's lower front tooth pain pointed to kidney and bladder issues, revealing a urinary tract infection that conventional dentistry would have missed and treated with a root canal instead.
The number 2 for me is so important because it's meridian. Who know about meridian? Yes, a lot of you in here know. So the meridian is connected not just to the tooth but to organ too. So we're going to make sure that we test it to see is the tooth burden the organ or vice versa. Like a patient came in and she said, "I have so much pain down here." And we look at the CBC, we said, "Nothing is wrong with the tooth. You have a UTI." She immediately jumped, she's like, "How do you have a UTI?" I said, "Because the 4 front teeth on the lower connect to the kidney and the bladder. If it's hurting here, we're going to see what else is going on in your body." But if she go to a conventional dentist, What they gonna do? They wanna do root canals on those teeth because it hurt.
