Dr. Ben Javid

You know, I'm not a fan of root canals anymore at all because of what I see and what current research shows.

And so, you know, if a patient really wants to do a root canal, I'll refer them out just because it goes against my belief system now at this point to a specialist to get it done.

But overall, I think there's better solutions.

thanks you're that against them oh yeah wow because mine are like uh sideways and they've penetrated my gum and they're like they've been telling me to get them out for 10 years so i mean you know what i would say if someone has a root canal the most important thing you do is get it checked and get it checked by a biological dentist with a cone beam ct scan which i don't know if you've ever had experience when you come to the office we're going to do one for you

It's a scan that it's a 3D imaging, like, you know what a CT scan, you go to the, it's C3D, you can see the slices, you know, you can see detail.

It's so important to get that done because there's such a high rate of infection and patients have no pain.

We do these scans consistently on any patient that has had a root canal, for example, or, you know, it's part of our new patient protocol, this kind of scan that we do.

uh and so every new patient you know we pretty much want to check and see how everything is doing because there's other infections that you can find on this kind of scan something called cavitations uh and that otherwise it's pretty impossible to find so we that really convinced me that i don't want to do it anymore when i started scanning everyone that you see the results right oh man the volume of infections i heard it's almost everyone that's gotten a root canal

You know, if you watch this documentary called The Root Cause, have you seen that?

No.

It's a really good one to watch.

You should watch it.

It talks about a study that was done where I think 1,800, don't quote me on that, but I think 1,800 teeth were extracted.

And they checked to see, you know, actually how much bacteria is leaking from these teeth.

And every single one was.

Holy crap.

So for me, if I scan a tooth and I don't see any visible sign of infection, I don't tell them they have to take it out.

I just, you know, tell them, you know, these are the pros and cons.

It's up to you.

If it has visible signs of infection, then it's a priority.