If you are familiar with Dr. Hulda Clark books, you know how much emphasis she placed on the dental clean-up. She went so far as to say that “the dental clean-up is more than 50% of a cancer cure”, and she also said that root canals are a recipe for mayhem, health-wise.
Dr. Mercola recently pointed out that 93% of women with breast cancer have root canals. That is a very interesting fact. It would be great to have much more data on these correlations; unfortunately it is not easily found. I don’t know where Mercola gets his 93% figure from, but I have found that he usually checks his facts. The next question I had was, of course, how many women who do not have breast cancer have root canals? If 93% of those have root canals, the fact would be meaningless. But that is the problem — I don’t find any information about it that looks very reliable. But I did find one source saying that 26% of all Americans have one or more root canaled teeth. If we consider that people have more root canals as they get older, and that young women would not tend to have breast cancer, it is still very likely that even adjusted for age less than 93% of women without breast cancer would have root canals. Though I can’t say that I have enough data to reach a definite conclusion, it seems very likely that there is a correlation between root canals and cancer.
Dr. Clark for reasons much different than statistics has said the same thing, and I can confirm that almost every cancer patient I talked to had a terrible dental situation. I have found no comment on the ADA website showing that this correlation does not exist. One would think that the ADA, confronted with a claim that root canals are dangerous, would probably get a few studies under way if it wasn’t true. But maybe they don’t want to. They are also still saying that amalgam is not dangerous — in the face of thousands of studies suggesting otherwise. Their website states that dental amalgam is “safe, affordable and durable”.