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Root Canal Dangers

DNA Studies Confirm

Dr. Weston Price’s Century-Old Findings

by Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS

oxic dental materials have created much havoc in
the dental profession, as well as in patient health,

for
T nearly two centuries. Dental mercury fillings,
nickel crowns (especially in children, called “chrome

crowns”), root canals and cavitations have been the target
of concern for a long time.

Dental mercury was first exposed as a health-compromising product in
1840. The dental profession finally overcame the perception that putting
toxic mercury in the mouth might be detrimental to human health; organized
dentistry still considers the current fillings containing 50 percent mercury
as “state of the art.”
The toxicity of root canals was disclosed by Mayo’s Clinic and Dr.
Weston Price jointly back in about 1910. Close to a century ago. Price’s
textbook on root canals, published in 1922, upset the dental associations at
that time, and still does today. The American Dental Association (ADA),
denies his findings and claims that they have proven root canals to be safe;
however, no published data from the ADA is available to confirm this state-
ment. Statements, but no actual research.
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