submitted by Trope to Health9 monthsJul 19, 2024 21:56:50 ago (+24/-1) (Health)
It was never my choice to have the procedure done. Let me tell you, it was one of the most painful experiences as a child to have a root canal performed. As an adult, it was on my radar for extraction the day I walked into the dentistry.
As I’ve seen multiple comments stating to never get a root canal, I’ll be sure to report any noticeable improvements to my overall health as a result of this removal. I find such anecdotal information helpful when it comes to online health groups and these sorts of things.
I can attest that the surrounding tissue around the dead tooth has always been more sensitive than the rest of my mouth. It would be straight-forward to say that having rotting bone tissue lodged into living tissue can best be described to feel exactly as it sounds: Not good. As if to have a thorn permanently wedged into your body. It already feels better and more natural to have gone.
The extraction process is quite painless excluding the discomfort of the Articaine injections and the healing gums following the procedure. If anyone is suffering from a bad tooth, I suggest doing the needful.
Having a persistent infection in your body keeps stress hormones racing 24-7-365.
If you dealt with this dying tooth for years, then that open wound could have effected your health in multiple ways. The bacteria in your mouth can get into the bloodstream and spread infections throughout the body. One such example is a heart condition where the infection takes hold on the valves of the heart... and it is terminal if not addressed.
I absolutely believe it. I’ve dealth with a number of autoimmune disease symptoms that I’ve mitigated with a strict carnivore diet. Always been the kind of fellow that, if I eat like most folk, I feel like shite the following day. Although considering the number of people on prescription medication in this country, it would be fair to blame the food supply.
[ - ] I_am_baal 1 point 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 15:11:32 ago (+1/-0)
Yup, the jaw is a fucked up place for an infection to take hold too. Most jaw cavitations don't cause a whole lot of symptoms at the primary infection site. Symptoms crop up when the bacteria and toxins leak out and into the rest of the body. The immune system has a tough time combatting such things in that particular area.
i'm resigned that i will lose all my teeth at some point. gonna look goofy without it but whatever
my overall health is not good so as soon as i feel some pain i will discard my teeth. dentists have told me my own body oral secretions eventually destroy the teeth. also i take medications that dries up my mouth considerably and that's also not good for the tooth
the bad part is that extractions and other dental care are expensive as hell and my insurance is a bitch to deal with in order to get them to approve any costly dental treatment
i brush my teeth 2 times a day and use non alcoholic mouthwash. i did try to experiment with some alternative medicine and it didnt work so there's that
Thanks for sharing. Though what if you decided to take ownership of your health? Likewise, if the cost of an extraction is too high, you could work to better your financial situation too. I don’t know your story or what kind of struggles or health issues you face, but I would advise all friends and family to work to better their situation.
Share with us sometime. Perhaps there is a holistic approach.
Have you look into oil-pulling? I had some dental issues for awhile and coconut oil (tastes best) seemed to help until I could get to a dentist. I'm too lazy to do it long-term but I have heard that it can assist with regenerating the teeth. Dry mouth definitely fucks up teeth. Saliva is needed for good oral care. Not sure how you'd mitigate that b/c sucking on hard candies or something would just be introducing sugar which is probably worse than dry mouth. Good luck and I can't wait until we can just regrow teeth.
i have tried a couple of "holistic" shit and it made matters worse so i'm not going that path again. tried to use hydroxide peroxide but it left my molar with a black scar and i took the recommended dose. i also tried some natural herbs and it didnt do crap to help with my issues.
so yeah i'm going to wait and whatever happens will happen. i'm saving some cash so that i can pull out the remainder of my teeth when i start having pain. it will be better for my health because the risk for infection will either disappear or lower somewhat and my philosophy is that life is more important than aesthetics
my days of worrying about that is gone. my health and life takes much priority.
Just a quick bit of info that's been passed down through the years, and I'm a firm believer in this, an aunt told me a long time ago that if you can't brush for whatever reason gargle and swish with original Listerine, both her grandparents on the other side never brushed, only gargled and both had most of their teeth when they passed away in their 90s, she just passed away 4 years ago at 89 and had all her teeth
Interesting though I have a firm belief that the biome of the mouh should not be erradicated. I’d suspect a lot of other variables contributing to the longevity if your aunts. I havent used any disinfects in the last few years as my mouth has began to improve.
I would also think people eating a poor diet will have a bad growth of mouth biome where listerine does help keep it under control. Still, just theories.
[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 22:08:37 ago (+1/-0)*
Happy to answer this.
My breath was bad and worsened as the years went by. I drank a lot from the day I turned 18 to many years onward which I believe did not help the biome of my mouth. Anyway, my bad breath was mostly resolved when I finally worked up the courage to go to the dentist as an adult and have a deep cleaning done and the regular cleanings that would follow.
I’ve seen comments on this site over the years speaking against deep cleanings but I must refute: The build-up on the teeth cannot be removed with brushing and requires the correct tools. The amount of matter they removed from my mouth was astonishing. What I believed to be my teeth were the combination of teeth and build-up.
The hardened build-up on the teeth pushes the gums away from the root of the teeth causing chronic inflammation.
Adhering to a strict carnivore diet with supplementation of vitamins and minerals, my mouth healed very fast. Gums were only sore and teeth sensitive for a few days despite the intrusive amount of work performed during a deep cleaning. Prior to the deep cleanings, my gums were red. After the cleanings, my gums became a healthy pink color all around except for the areas next to the root canal tooth and the other side where an chronically infected abscessed tooth was extracted.
One friendly fellow on this website advised supplementing vitamin C for gum health. I’ve been taking at least 1000mg daily and my mouth has never been better.
Cool, I’m on a strict carnivore, I was warned all that meat will ruin my teeth. My teeth have never been healthier, gums look great. No bleeding as long as I floss regularly though…
While the zero carb diets prevent the depletion of vitamin C, I still believe it’s worth supplementing.
As clean as the carnivore diet is, we would be putting too much faith into the food supply, farming methods, and soil quality to assume that we are recieving enough magnesium, vitamins and minerals, and iodine.
Just started down the iodine Rabbit hole two months ago. 27000mcg without issue. An amount crazy to me.
Never quite understood people who say root canals hurt. Maybe I just had a good dentist. The visit seemed more or less like any other dental checkup.
What really fucking hurt and still bothers me to this day was my botched wisdom teeth extraction. The right lower one had a major nerve wrapped around its roots and the extraction caused damaged that triggered the onset of trigeminal neuralgia... which I will suffer for the rest of my life. THAT is the fucking definition of pain.
[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 22:44:55 ago (+1/-0)
I suspect my childhood dentist sucked as I remember the process was very long and very painful. If only I could go back and tell my father: “You know, as soon as he visits a better dentist, they’re going to extract this liability.
I had a wisdom tooth pulled but it was without complication. Still, the gums took a week to heal.
Regarding your damaged nerve tissues, I can advise a carnivorous diet with a high dose of niacin and vitamin C. Worth a shot as a doctor managed to cure his bleeding gums in a matter of weeks with 3000mg daily of these two. The doctor suspects high doses of niacin could be used to repair tissues. This coming from a book called Niacin - The Real Story available on the internet archive. Of course, I need to advise all the basics too including D3, K2, multi, minerals, and iodine. Anyone with any sort of nerve or tissue damage, I would advise a diet of steak and more steak.
Good advice. Already a big steak eater so not much can be done there, and have all of the vits listed except for iodine supplements. Been meaning to give that a shot.
Luckily, the neuralgia has been more intermittent for the last five years or so. Cold winds and weirdly-fluorescent lighting are the main triggers for episodes. They aren't quite as bad as they used to be, but the disease is known go into remission and fluctuate in intensity.
No implants. This was in the back of my mouth and it creates space for my wisdom tooth. I don’t suspect any aesthetic issues to arise. Had it been any of my front teeth, I’d reconsider. Fortunately, I never had decay in the front.
Saw a person missing a tooth some time ago and it made me shudder. I’m thankful to have all my front teeth.
Yes, you're wise to take note of other's comments on such procedures. I have been a vehement supporter of removing root canals from dentistry as a procedure. Just because something doesn't work exactly right, it's not a cure to just cut it out entirely. In your case, if the tooth was dead and affecting the surrounding tissue, safe removal was probably a necessity, for preservation of your overall health.
The reason that I despise root canals has more to do with how important dental health is to overall body health, even though I also have a very personal reason. The roots and nerves of each tooth are important pathways in how the body communicates with certain other parts located in different regions. I guess the most accurate comparison would be to call them "circuit-breakers" that consistently switch between the on-off positions. When they're removed, it always leads to instability.
Against my will, I had to have an emergency operation in my late teens to remove an impacted wisdom tooth. The procedure left me with a paralyzed jaw, face, and mouth. I had to learn how to sleep with stitches in my mouth, and it took me years to learn how to sleep and keep my mouth closed completely so that I didn't wake up covered in drool. I have a standing regular order of Anbesol for the weeks that I accidently bite my lip while eating or while asleep. I still sleep with two layers of pillow protectors just so I can swap them out if I wet one too deep. And I'm sure that I'll have further life-long complications from the procedure, probably the kind that will slightly reduce my life expectancy. In some similar ways to how men who get vasectomies develop conditions that lead to a higher risk of dementia later in life (because the body still develops the proteins that cross the blood brain barrier), I'm sure that I'll have to cross that bridge eventually myself.
Dentistry is a pain enough, it shouldn't destroy the livelihood of anyone unlucky enough to think that a procedure that might help them could cause a lifetime of injury.
[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 00:14:36 ago (+1/-0)
Shit, dude. Sorry to hear all that. Thanks for sharing.
I hope you eat lots of steak and take all the necessary supplements in an effort to help repair some of the surrounding tissue in your jaw. I thank my lucky stars that my dental issues were not as dire.
My gum depth has been getting out of control even though I thoroughly brush/floss 2x a day. One tooth was at the 7mm pocket depth which is redlining it...
I used a corded waterpik nightly for 2 months and now my deepest depth is 4mm.
I almost always avoid goyslop and do lots of meat + some vegetables. Only liquid I drink is water. I can figure my allergies and hence snoring must be the root of my dental troubles. Resulting dry mouth is bad news for teeth.
Mainstream fluoride toothpastes trigger sinus inflammation immediately after for me, my nose gets stuffy, not sure if its the petroleum byproducts or what. The fluoride-free SLS-free toothpastes don't do that.
I'm experimenting with zero toothpaste now, you can find dentists saying it's fine, the mechanical scrubbing action a good tooth brush is enough if you do 2x/day. A possible advantage of that is leaving the oral microbiome alone.
Not only do mouthwashes nuke the beneficial bacteria that are supposed to be in your mouth, fluoride itself is an anti-septic.
There are some doctors studying how the bacteria in your mouth are a significant part of the pathway for nitric oxide production in the body.
Something I try to shoehorn into every youngin' I care about is learn to take care of your teeth. Floss then brush the moment you wake up so the food hasn't softened your enamel, etc. Dentists are expensive, painful, and once you had work done, all those fillings/crowns fall apart and have to be redone ad infinitum.
I'm brushing with a combination of very high purity baking soda from a water-refined process, then I mix a big tablespoon of finely ground cinnamon and cloves in with about 6 tablespoons of baking soda. Cloves are a natural strength enhancer and cinnamon is strong enough to remove any bad smells for an entire day.
Good advice but I would actually recommend waiting at least a little bit in the a.m. before brushing depending on if you're a mouth breather or whatnot while sleeping.
Good tip brother, I didn't know that dry mouth affects the enamel by dropping the PH (https://www.premierdentalohio.com/blog/enamel-erosion). I know so many white people with jacked up teeth because our white culture is being destroyed and we are degenerating. Deaths of despair and what-not too obviously, all goes hand in hand (rubbing hands). It's time to reverse course with pedal to the metal. \o
Your teeth are made of hydroxyapatite. Human teeth test 5 on the Mohs hardness scale. A steel nail tests 4. Discounting physical damage, they have only one enemy. Acid. Acidic drinks - soda, beer- slowly dissolve them. Sugar feeds oral bacteria, whether "good" or "bad" and bacterial poop is acidic. I rinse with peroxide every day. I've seen a dentist once in 25 years, to repair a broken tooth. His assistant told me a cleaning was "optional".
[ + ] KosherHiveKicker
[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 8 points 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 22:18:12 ago (+8/-0)*
If you dealt with this dying tooth for years, then that open wound could have effected your health in multiple ways. The bacteria in your mouth can get into the bloodstream and spread infections throughout the body. One such example is a heart condition where the infection takes hold on the valves of the heart... and it is terminal if not addressed.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocarditis
[ + ] Deplorablepoetry
[ - ] Deplorablepoetry 5 points 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 23:44:28 ago (+5/-0)
One thing you did not mention is meningitis. Any infection in the head can infect the brain……, dead.
I had a tooth rot and die. Dentist pulled it out and said “look at this”…it had a hole in it near the root…., a ticking time bomb for a tooth
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[ - ] Deplorablepoetry 3 points 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 23:30:57 ago (+3/-0)
4 broken ribs
Ankles turned to dust
100 fractured fingers
Two broken hearts
Kicked in the nuts
Arrested and molested
Pneumonia nearly dead
And a liver that won’t shut the fuck up
[ + ] AlexanderMorose13
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[ - ] Trope [op] 2 points 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 00:07:30 ago (+2/-0)
Those broken hearts are probably the worst of it. Been there.
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[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz 3 points 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 07:20:08 ago (+3/-0)
my overall health is not good so as soon as i feel some pain i will discard my teeth. dentists have told me my own body oral secretions eventually destroy the teeth. also i take medications that dries up my mouth considerably and that's also not good for the tooth
the bad part is that extractions and other dental care are expensive as hell and my insurance is a bitch to deal with in order to get them to approve any costly dental treatment
i brush my teeth 2 times a day and use non alcoholic mouthwash. i did try to experiment with some alternative medicine and it didnt work so there's that
its gonna be whatever is going to be
[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 09:05:14 ago (+0/-0)
Share with us sometime. Perhaps there is a holistic approach.
[ + ] NeverHappened
[ - ] NeverHappened 0 points 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 16:34:03 ago (+0/-0)
Dry mouth definitely fucks up teeth. Saliva is needed for good oral care. Not sure how you'd mitigate that b/c sucking on hard candies or something would just be introducing sugar which is probably worse than dry mouth.
Good luck and I can't wait until we can just regrow teeth.
[ + ] dosvydanya_freedomz
[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz 1 point 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 19:53:21 ago (+1/-0)
so yeah i'm going to wait and whatever happens will happen. i'm saving some cash so that i can pull out the remainder of my teeth when i start having pain. it will be better for my health because the risk for infection will either disappear or lower somewhat and my philosophy is that life is more important than aesthetics
my days of worrying about that is gone. my health and life takes much priority.
thanks for the suggestions though
[ + ] Zyklonbeekeeper
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[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 3 points 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 00:10:50 ago (+3/-0)
I would also think people eating a poor diet will have a bad growth of mouth biome where listerine does help keep it under control. Still, just theories.
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[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 22:08:37 ago (+1/-0)*
My breath was bad and worsened as the years went by. I drank a lot from the day I turned 18 to many years onward which I believe did not help the biome of my mouth. Anyway, my bad breath was mostly resolved when I finally worked up the courage to go to the dentist as an adult and have a deep cleaning done and the regular cleanings that would follow.
I’ve seen comments on this site over the years speaking against deep cleanings but I must refute: The build-up on the teeth cannot be removed with brushing and requires the correct tools. The amount of matter they removed from my mouth was astonishing. What I believed to be my teeth were the combination of teeth and build-up.
The hardened build-up on the teeth pushes the gums away from the root of the teeth causing chronic inflammation.
Adhering to a strict carnivore diet with supplementation of vitamins and minerals, my mouth healed very fast. Gums were only sore and teeth sensitive for a few days despite the intrusive amount of work performed during a deep cleaning. Prior to the deep cleanings, my gums were red. After the cleanings, my gums became a healthy pink color all around except for the areas next to the root canal tooth and the other side where an chronically infected abscessed tooth was extracted.
One friendly fellow on this website advised supplementing vitamin C for gum health. I’ve been taking at least 1000mg daily and my mouth has never been better.
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[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 22:18:11 ago (+0/-0)
As clean as the carnivore diet is, we would be putting too much faith into the food supply, farming methods, and soil quality to assume that we are recieving enough magnesium, vitamins and minerals, and iodine.
Just started down the iodine Rabbit hole two months ago. 27000mcg without issue. An amount crazy to me.
[ + ] MuricaPersonified
[ - ] MuricaPersonified 1 point 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 22:38:07 ago (+1/-0)
What really fucking hurt and still bothers me to this day was my botched wisdom teeth extraction. The right lower one had a major nerve wrapped around its roots and the extraction caused damaged that triggered the onset of trigeminal neuralgia... which I will suffer for the rest of my life. THAT is the fucking definition of pain.
[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 22:44:55 ago (+1/-0)
I had a wisdom tooth pulled but it was without complication. Still, the gums took a week to heal.
Regarding your damaged nerve tissues, I can advise a carnivorous diet with a high dose of niacin and vitamin C. Worth a shot as a doctor managed to cure his bleeding gums in a matter of weeks with 3000mg daily of these two. The doctor suspects high doses of niacin could be used to repair tissues. This coming from a book called Niacin - The Real Story available on the internet archive. Of course, I need to advise all the basics too including D3, K2, multi, minerals, and iodine. Anyone with any sort of nerve or tissue damage, I would advise a diet of steak and more steak.
[ + ] MuricaPersonified
[ - ] MuricaPersonified 2 points 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 22:56:37 ago (+2/-0)
Luckily, the neuralgia has been more intermittent for the last five years or so. Cold winds and weirdly-fluorescent lighting are the main triggers for episodes. They aren't quite as bad as they used to be, but the disease is known go into remission and fluctuate in intensity.
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[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 23:03:29 ago (+0/-0)
Saw a person missing a tooth some time ago and it made me shudder. I’m thankful to have all my front teeth.
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[ + ] AlexanderMorose13
[ - ] AlexanderMorose13 1 point 9 monthsJul 19, 2024 23:46:46 ago (+1/-0)
The reason that I despise root canals has more to do with how important dental health is to overall body health, even though I also have a very personal reason. The roots and nerves of each tooth are important pathways in how the body communicates with certain other parts located in different regions. I guess the most accurate comparison would be to call them "circuit-breakers" that consistently switch between the on-off positions. When they're removed, it always leads to instability.
Against my will, I had to have an emergency operation in my late teens to remove an impacted wisdom tooth. The procedure left me with a paralyzed jaw, face, and mouth. I had to learn how to sleep with stitches in my mouth, and it took me years to learn how to sleep and keep my mouth closed completely so that I didn't wake up covered in drool. I have a standing regular order of Anbesol for the weeks that I accidently bite my lip while eating or while asleep. I still sleep with two layers of pillow protectors just so I can swap them out if I wet one too deep. And I'm sure that I'll have further life-long complications from the procedure, probably the kind that will slightly reduce my life expectancy. In some similar ways to how men who get vasectomies develop conditions that lead to a higher risk of dementia later in life (because the body still develops the proteins that cross the blood brain barrier), I'm sure that I'll have to cross that bridge eventually myself.
Dentistry is a pain enough, it shouldn't destroy the livelihood of anyone unlucky enough to think that a procedure that might help them could cause a lifetime of injury.
[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 00:14:36 ago (+1/-0)
I hope you eat lots of steak and take all the necessary supplements in an effort to help repair some of the surrounding tissue in your jaw. I thank my lucky stars that my dental issues were not as dire.
[ + ] No_way_oy_vey
[ - ] No_way_oy_vey 1 point 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 00:30:38 ago (+1/-0)
I used a corded waterpik nightly for 2 months and now my deepest depth is 4mm.
I almost always avoid goyslop and do lots of meat + some vegetables. Only liquid I drink is water. I can figure my allergies and hence snoring must be the root of my dental troubles. Resulting dry mouth is bad news for teeth.
Mainstream fluoride toothpastes trigger sinus inflammation immediately after for me, my nose gets stuffy, not sure if its the petroleum byproducts or what. The fluoride-free SLS-free toothpastes don't do that.
I'm experimenting with zero toothpaste now, you can find dentists saying it's fine, the mechanical scrubbing action a good tooth brush is enough if you do 2x/day. A possible advantage of that is leaving the oral microbiome alone.
Not only do mouthwashes nuke the beneficial bacteria that are supposed to be in your mouth, fluoride itself is an anti-septic.
There are some doctors studying how the bacteria in your mouth are a significant part of the pathway for nitric oxide production in the body.
Something I try to shoehorn into every youngin' I care about is learn to take care of your teeth. Floss then brush the moment you wake up so the food hasn't softened your enamel, etc. Dentists are expensive, painful, and once you had work done, all those fillings/crowns fall apart and have to be redone ad infinitum.
[ + ] AttilaHitler
[ - ] AttilaHitler 1 point 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 05:25:57 ago (+1/-0)
Best thing that ever happened to my mouth.
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[ - ] BoozyB 0 points 9 monthsJul 20, 2024 08:53:53 ago (+0/-0)
Discounting physical damage, they have only one enemy. Acid.
Acidic drinks - soda, beer- slowly dissolve them.
Sugar feeds oral bacteria, whether "good" or "bad" and bacterial poop is acidic.
I rinse with peroxide every day.
I've seen a dentist once in 25 years, to repair a broken tooth. His assistant told me a cleaning was "optional".