The following is related info,
written previously:
Careful, a dental irrigator used on infected gums has been
known to blast bacteria directly into the blood stream,
leading rapidly to heart infections, kidney infections, etc.
On the other hand, a dental irrigator is useless on a
periapical abscess which is located deep in the jaw bone,
at the tip of the root of a tooth, at the outlet of the
root canal. Short of extraction, there are no 'proven' ways
to treat a periapical abscess.
Few dentists will tell you this -- they are taught to do a
root canal, then wait, and the infection "just goes away"
(but the abscess doesn't). Besides, most dentists only
treat teeth (and gums), and they're not 'required' to treat
abscesses in the surrounding jaw bones (some dentists will).
And few doctors ever bother to look for hidden problems there.
These common types of hidden jaw abscesses may be the origin
of most heart disease, prostate disease, arthritis, sinusitis,
chronic immune activation, etc. Some medical doctors
speculate it will be proven that nearly all diseases are
infectious in nature.
If a tooth's pain "goes away", it doesn't mean you're cured or
out of danger. It often means that the tooth's nerve has died,
and now there are no obvious symptoms to warn you of the
growing danger that you're in (heart disease, arthritis, etc.).
Your doctor will gladly treat all the individual symptoms of
these 'stealth' abscesses -- symptoms which will grow more
numerous, year by year, while breeding stronger organisms to
spread more easily to your (and your lover's?) other teeth
and organs.
Only an x-ray of a full tooth, including the tooth's root(s),
plus the jaw bone beyond the tip(s) of the root(s), can find
(some) jaw abscesses, but x-rays will often miss abscesses !!
All dead teeth (without live nerves) should be assumed to
be likely sites of surrounding (hidden) jaw abscesses,
whether or not they have had 'root canal' treatments.
Some people are trying Bob Beck or Hulda Clark type 'zappers'
(etc.) or Bare-Rife type 'frequency devices' to keep tooth
and jaw infections under control. I don't know if they've had
any long range success.
Another unproven but promising approach is an infrared laser
of around 830 nanometers and 90 milliwatts (Low Level Laser
Therapy, LLLT). Teeth can be sterilized with a lower powered
red or infrared laser during a root canal procedure. Higher
power infrared is needed to penetrate the jaw bone. These
infrared lasers are used in the US by veterinarians to
heal infections and injuries in horses, etc.
'Regular' antibiotics usually won't cure a jaw abscess
(not enough blood supply where it's needed). Deep local
injections of "depot" antibiotics may(?) work, if you can
find a practitioner willing to try that approach (not too
likely). Frequent high doses of colloidal silver (or IV ozone)
have been suggested, but they remain 'unproven'.
There may be no quick or really permanent 'fix', other than
dead tooth extraction and 'cavitation treatment' of the
empty tooth socket. Of course, root canals won't kill you
immediately -- but don't ever get 'run down' or grow
'weak with age', because they'll likely attack with a
vengeance, exactly when you're too weak to resist. Your
doctor will call it heart disease, etc., and totally ignore
your mouth.
Reference:
"Root Canal Cover-up Exposed" by George E. Meinig, DDS,
Bion Publishing, Ojai, California, 1993, ISBN 0-945196-14-8.
There is an interview of Dr. Meinig by Laura Lee at the
"Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients" web site:
--Bill