Episode 311: The Future of Dentistry and Rethinking Dental Health with Dr. Hilary Fritsch, DMD

The failing root canal problem is, like, the biggest story, I think, in biological dentistry, because there are so many people walking around with a root canal that's just leaking nasty bacteria into their bloodstream and their jaws, and they feel nothing. So they don't realize. And if you don't take a CT scan of it, you can't tell that there's all that bone loss. And general dentists have become normalized to, like, seeing some bone loss around an old root canal. So we kind of, like, looked the other way for 20 years. And I took just think there's a hidden epidemic of immune issues that come from your body having to deal with all those nasties getting into the bloodstream every day. So I think that's also going to become more normalized conversation. And the kind of dentistry that people are looking for is someone who's opened their eyes to that.