There are several times that people wonder about the mercury fillings that are there in their fillings. There is a lot of controversy surrounding this. Dr. George Meinig has gone into a lot of studying the works of Dr. Weston Price who is a scrupulous researcher. The work of the doctor showed that the germs that remain in our mouth are the kind that will be able to pump into your body from real great distance, the germs. The toxins that are released by these germs can harm all your vital organs be they the heart, kidneys, lungs, eyes, stomach, brain, and innumerable other body tissues. The germs can also get into the bloodstream and then spread to all the other parts of your body. Dr. Meinig mentions of Dr.Price's twenty-five years research and the inclusion of it in the American Dental Association's Research institute. Dr. Meinig found in the research that was conducted by Dr. Price that almost 70 years of non-believers had to be surpassed in order to come to this position. The dental and medical professions might not want to use the information. These studies have been necessary. However, people should be aware of the research that has been carried out by Dr. Price to decide what is right for them. By enabling the patients with knowledge of the Dr. Meinig's comprehensive study of Dr. Price's research will enable them to be able to make dentists rethink their techniques. Further than this, Dr. Meinig talks of Dr. Price's research on dental diseases in easy words. This information is priceless. If one wants to avoid poisonous effects of root canal therapy it can be done so. Dr. Price enables us to choose the correct path. Several dentists, health professionals and even individual who have ever had root canal therapy done were amazed at the results published in the book. It will be really difficult for those dentists who specialize in the art of root canals and are already a part of the American Association of Endodontics (AAE) to be able to understand why the book was written in the first place. There was a honorary recognition that was given to this book recently enough. The three people who were awarded this are the only people who are alive and they were the ones who started this about fifty years ago. The public at large and even other dentists are not familiar with the apprehensions and confusion that this has caused to those who attended the AAE a few years ago. At that point of time, the removal of the affected teeth was considered to be a standard procedure. Almost all the dentists were never taught how to save the affected teeth instead. When they were being taught this most of them had no focus and interest. The reason behind this is that none of them had ever been told about the nuances of saving the tooth. Even at that point of time the doctors ensured that they told everyone about the benefits of the root canal and how they could go on to save the affected tooth, the first stage in this was to help them avoid tooth decay and if there was a cavity to have it filled and root canal done if necessary. These doctors were successful enough in teaching how it is important to consider saving your teeth rather than having them pulled out. The AAE has about 4000 member and there was a paradigm shift as more than 20 million root canal therapies were performed last year. This will certainly surprise dentists and physicians to know that the infectious bacteria in the teeth can be controlled. But actually when the root canal treatment is performed, they are wiped out completely and killed. The areas that had been infected by them, after the root canal has been done, starts healing. Some dentists do not know that the bacteria that caused infections and are present in the root canal are locked in the tubules of the dentin of the teeth. Whatever recommendations that have been made in the book are supported by the twenty-five years of extensive study that was undertaken on the use of the root canal therapy. This is certainly one great medical discovery.