Painless Oral Infections Cause Chronic Diseases – Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD

This presentation was recorded live at the 2016 IVC and Chronic Illness Symposium hosted by the Riordan Clinic. To find out more about the Riordan Clinic visit https://riordanclinic.org/

The current medical literature now clearly demonstrates that root canal-treated teeth are all sites of chronic focal infection, as well as producers of highly potent toxins produced by dental pathogens under anaerobic conditions. In addition to demonstrating why the root canal procedure will always result in chronic infection, multiple studies will be cited to show that the chronic inflammation and pathogen presence now known to initiate coronary atherosclerosis virtually always originates from oral infections, typically from periodontitis or chronically infected teeth, especially root canals.

It will also be shown that there are a large number of undiagnosed, asymptomatic teeth with X-ray evidence of chronic apical periodontitis (CAP), a radiological finding that is only present when the pulp of the tooth is infected and necrotic. It will be shown that these teeth are even more prone to cause heart attacks than has been proven to be the case with root canal-treated teeth, which are also teeth that very frequently demonstrate CAP. A number of current articles in the dental literature will be cited to demonstrate not only this cause-and- effect cardiac connection, but also to demonstrate the many links of these infected teeth to a wide variety of chronic degenerative diseases.

The very important practical point will be made that the patient with suspected or established cardiac disease must always have 3D Digital X-ray examination of their teeth to look for chronic apical periodontitis, since regular dental X-rays miss very many teeth with clear infectious pathology. The case will be made that strong consideration must be given to having these teeth properly extracted with the sockets cleaned and debrided to prevent or limit the possibility of future cardiac events.

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