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nerve lives. On the outside of the tooth is what space inside the cleaned-out root—shrinks upon cooling, rebounding from
is called the periodontal ligament. Teeth are not the force applied to push the wax down the canal, and losing the liquid
attached directly to bone. Fibers come out of the portion (see Figure 6), or into the periodontal ligament where a plentiful
tooth and intertwine with fibers coming out of supply of food awaits them.
the bone, and they unite to form what is called A tooth has one to four major canals. This fact is taught in dental
the periodontal ligament. school, but never mentioned are the additional “accessory canals.” Price
The second layer of the tooth, the dentin, identified as many as seventy-five separate accessory canals in a single
is not really solid but composed of tiny dentinal central incisor (the front tooth). Figure 7 shows one of these canals filled
tubules. In a front tooth, if all these tubules with necrotic (dead) tissue.
were attached end to end, they would reach over There is no way that any dental procedure can reach into these ac-
three miles. Note that the tubules have adequate cessory canals and clean out the dead tissue. This necrotic tissue creates a
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space to house many thousands of bacteria (see home for multiple bacterial infections outside the tooth in the periodontal
Figure 5). This is where the bacteria were hid- ligament. With added food supply from this area, the anaerobic bacteria
ing in the thousand teeth Price tested. From the can multiply and their toxins can contribute to the onset of disease (see
dentin tubules, bacteria can migrate either into Figure 8).
the pulp chamber, where space is left as the gutta Of course, the root apex (terminal end) is the primary area of con-
percha—a natural form of rubber used to fill the centration of infection. Even though this may be the last area to show

Figure 5
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Figure 7

Figure 6 Figure 8

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