Gum Disease Treatment - Those people with root canal fillings found healing rate slower

Immune System Overloaded by Dental Infection, Trauma - Injury

When people suffer a severe auto accident, fall, or suffer
some other injury, their immune systems are called upon to
work at peak performance in order to achieve a speedy
recovery. Those people with root canal fillings are
generally found to have a healing rate slower than expected.
Quite often, the extra stress an injury places on their
defense systems allows the organisms to get out of hand
and attack some other organ or tissues.

We all know of individuals who get over one illness only
to develop another. This can, of course, happen when no
dental infections or root canals are present because
of poor nutrition, anxiety, alcohol and drug use, and
a whole variety or combination of other stresses with
which humans must cope. The more stress involved,
the more the immune system is taxed to keep the person
alive and functioning.

When the body is continually subjected to irritation
in any one or a number of its tissues and parts,
these areas often become sick. Take Dr. Price’s story
of the man who came to America by ship in steerage from
the Philippines to San Francisco and from there by train
to Cleveland. All during the travel time, he was
confined to relatively small areas where exercise was
impossible and movement was restricted.

In Cleveland he worked as a night watchman in a
manufacturing plans. It was necessary for him to walk
several miles each night over acres of cement floors.
Because he didn’t wear rubber heels on his shoes,
the irritation to his knee joints and ankles was
stressful and made him uncomfortable.

After a few weeks he developed acute rheumatism
in the joint areas. At that point, an oral
examination disclosed some dental infections.
The sources of infection wee removed and with the
addition of rubber heels to his shoes, his
problems were relieved and he was able to continue
the same occupation with no further symptoms of
rheumatism.

Dr. Price also relates the case of a patient who
suffered eye problems and was unable to read for
any length of time without periods of rest. This
had been a continuing problem for several, and
glasses proved to be of no help. After removal of
dental infections, this patient was able to discard
the glasses he had worn for 15 years, and reading
for long periods no longer caused discomfort.

MaNY other patients who wore glasses reported such
improvement of their eyes after the removal of
dental infections that their eye glass prescriptions
had to be reduced, and others were able to discontinue
using glasses altogether.