{"product_id":"root-canal-racket-what-dental-industry-has-never-told-you-about-americas-most-profitable-procedure-9798180532626-new","title":"The Root Canal Racket: What the Dental Industry Has Never Told You About America's Most Profitable Procedure","description":"Forty-one million root canals are performed in the United States every single year. The American Association of Endodontists calls the procedure safe, effective, and the best option for saving a damaged tooth. What the AAE does not tell patients - what the dental industry has spent decades managing, minimizing, and suppressing - is what this book examines in full.\u003cbr\u003eA root canal tooth is a dead tooth. When the pulp is removed, the tooth loses its blood supply, its lymphatic connections, its immune system access, and its capacity to respond to future infection. What remains in the jaw is a calcium structure harboring anaerobic bacteria in a microscopic tubule network that no disinfection protocol can fully sterilize. Those bacteria produce toxic compounds whose biological activity has been measured in peer-reviewed research. They have access to systemic circulation through the anatomy of the root tip. And the research connecting them to cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease has been published in the most respected journals in medicine - and systematically ignored by the dental industry whose financial model depends on the procedure continuing at current volume.\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines three things the dental industry has never wanted patients to know.\u003cbr\u003eThe suppressed science. The research of Dr. Weston Price, the bacterial leakage studies published in the AAE's own journal, the population-based findings that periapical pathology develops in nearly half of all root canal-treated teeth, and the oral-systemic research connecting root canal bacteria to conditions ranging from heart disease to Alzheimer's - all of it examined at exactly the level the evidence supports.\u003cbr\u003eThe financial architecture. The fourteen-billion-dollar annual industry built around a single procedure. The referral economy between general dentists and endodontists. The insurance benefit structures that make root canal treatment cost five hundred dollars out of pocket and implant placement cost five thousand. The dental school curriculum designed by the same professional organizations that profit from the procedure. The practice management consulting industry that teaches dentists to maximize case acceptance rather than improve patient education.\u003cbr\u003eThe informed consent failure. Canterbury v. Spence established in 1972 that patients are entitled to all information a reasonable person would consider material to a treatment decision. The research on bacterial survival in dentinal tubules is material. The research on periapical pathology prevalence is material. The comparative outcome data showing implant-supported crowns surviving at higher rates than root canal-treated teeth over ten years is material. None of it appears in the consent form forty-one million Americans sign every year before the drill goes in.\u003cbr\u003eThis book gives every dental patient what the industry decided they did not need to have - the complete biological, financial, and legal truth about America's most profitable dental procedure.","brand":"INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67600091676962,"sku":"9798180532626-new","price":24.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9798180532626.jpg?v=1792894115","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/root-canal-racket-what-dental-industry-has-never-told-you-about-americas-most-profitable-procedure-9798180532626-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}