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Frequently Asked Questions
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How Dental Infection can cause Systemic Diseases
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Dr Price, several times noticed that the rheumatic group lesions" as he referred them as were the main causes of dental infections. These terms went on to cause some kind of confusion in the minds of the patients with rheumatism and arthritis. There was a clear cut link between both of these diseases and dental infection. This is not that much prevalent as those in the form of heart and circulatory diseases.
Dr Price several times referred to the high number of rheumatic group lesions as being caused due to dental infections at the end of Volume I of his Dental Infections, oral and systemic.
Dr Price stated that as time goes by people will start speaking about these as degenerative diseases as they result in a loss of function with the structural degeneration of the various organs and tissues in the body. The government refers to them as old age diseases and many people are actually getting afflicted by these in their early thirties.
The public in general has started using the terms widely and they have been referring to it as degenerative diseases. Dr Price throughout his entire book has referred to it as the rheumatic group.
Before the book was written by Dr Price most people were of the impression that degenerative diseases occurred due to the exposure of the body to certain harmful organisms which went on to attack the kidney and the joints almost like how you would get any communicable disease. Even now most people do think on similar lines they have also come to realize that it could also be due to the nutritional deficiency and the metabolic disorders that can occur due to it.
The most important thing in all of this was the work that Dr Price published that brought to notice in America and all over the world that many people have ill health and even an early death because of dental infections and concerns. The root cause of several health concerns are the infections that one harbors in one’s teeth and this can be seen from the rabbit’s experiments and the demonstration that if the tooth can be sterilized then the accompanying health concern can stop.
Not only does the common man but even the medical fraternity has come to realize that the focal infections that occur in the teeth, gums and tonsils can reach all the way into the other organs and can go on to cause endocarditis in hearts, nephritis in kidneys, and a whole host of other devastating illnesses. While not all root canal treatments result in the transference of disease. Within twenty-four hours of removing the infected teeth the problem was solved. There were 24 million root canal operations that were conducted yearly and there were several surgeries to remove the infection from the teeth.
Health care is an expensive pursuit and several families have reached the point of bankruptcy due to it. Therefore the dental professions under the aegis of Dr Prices study have been trying to make huge changes in the way dental health is administered so as to ensure that people do not have degenerative diseases because of the teeth infections.
It has been widely brought to the public’s notice that people with better dental care and no gum disease are bound to be able to lead a healthy life with a healthier mouth. Bacteria that are found in the mouth are the same kind that can be extremely active in the other parts of the body and the organs too. Besides the maintenance of the dental care one must also consider the nutritional deficiency and the metabolic system and how all of these can go on to harm the immune system.
Dr Price let everyone know that the number of cases with the root filled tooth and the tooth restored to normalcy were immediately able to find that their heart conditions too turned to normal.
Doctors who go on to understand the important role that healthy teeth play in a patient’s life go on to give them that information and let them know that if they neglect their oral health it is going to be extremely harmful to them in the long run. Focal infections can lead to several different problems in the patient’s life.
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