| Kidney Trouble:* Originally Dr. Price believed kidney | | | | extent of the infection present in these teeth and |
| infections only remotely related to dental focal | | | | their relationship to the patient's six years of ill health, |
| infections. He eventually found, however, many 30 to | | | | which cleared on removal of her upper teeth.Ovarian |
| 40 year olds were developing nephritis (kidney | | | | Cysts:Lacking in the medical and dental literature of |
| disease) without the disease being suspected by the | | | | Dr. Price's time was any teaching about acute and |
| patient or the physician. Invariably, these patients | | | | chronic infections of the sex organs, or any mention |
| were also found to have definite dental | | | | of their relationship to focal infection. Dr. Price found |
| infections.The case report of a 41 year old married | | | | that a large number of women with ovarian gland |
| woman who was suffering from rheumatism and | | | | difficulties had infected teeth, or teeth which |
| heart trouble is of particular interest. A routine urine | | | | contained root canal fillings.Even though most women |
| analysis also disclosed kidney involvement. Her | | | | made excellent recoveries when infected teeth were |
| extracted tooth was cultured and a rabbit inoculated | | | | removed, Dr. Price stated he could not determine |
| in a vein with one cc of the 24-hour old culture. After | | | | whether the bacteria had an ability to select a |
| 49 days, the rabbit died; autopsy results are shown | | | | woman's ovaries, tubes and uterus or whether their |
| in the in the pictures on the following page.Stomach | | | | presence aggravated already compromised tissues. |
| Ulcers:Another case concerned a 43 year old woman | | | | Over a thousand rabbits were used to study the |
| who had been an invalid for six years suffering from | | | | causes of these frequent female problems.A good |
| vervousness, neuritis, and nervous indigestion. These | | | | example of the many cases investigated concerns a |
| symptoms were associated indigestion. These | | | | 20 year old unmarried woman whose distress at the |
| symptoms were associated with neuralgic pains that | | | | time of her menstrual period was so severe she was |
| occurred at her waistline. Such cases were usually | | | | bed-ridden for several days. In time it became |
| grouped together as a alimentary trac and associate | | | | obvious her physical and mental health was being |
| organ lesions, as they involved the digestive tract, | | | | seriously affected.Review of the history of her |
| the gall bladder, stomach, intestinal indigestion, and | | | | difficulties showed that some five years previously |
| the appendix.Because this patient had a severe | | | | she was hit by a golf ball over her left ovary. She did |
| amount of condensing osteitis (dense bone just | | | | not think the event significant as there was no |
| below the roots), and such cases usually showed little | | | | evidence of local injury and only a short period of |
| x-ray evidence of infection, all of her upper teeth | | | | discomfort. At the time she did have some infected |
| were removed. This brought a prompt improvement | | | | teeth which she carried during the intervening |
| in the patient's health which allowed her to return to | | | | period.Copyright 2006 SSLI Health GroupDr. George |
| previous activities.Most dentists would say that even | | | | Meinig,D.D.S.,F.A.C.D. is a Founder of the Association |
| though this patient had severe osteitis, her root canal | | | | of Root Canal Specialists Discovers Evidence That |
| fillings appeared satisfactory and the root of the | | | | Root Canals Damage Your Health Learn What to |
| upper left second bicuspid appeared relatively easy | | | | Do.Learn how Dr. George Meinig discovered that a |
| to treat. However, a culture taken from other teeth | | | | meticulous 25 year research program, conducted by |
| and inoculated into a rabbit produced the ulcer you | | | | Weston A. Price, DDS, under the auspices of the |
| see in the accompanying picture.Most who do | | | | American Dental Association's Research Institute was |
| endodontic treatments would have misjudged the | | | | buried. |