Online articles, a film, and even some doctors claim that root canal procedures are the underlying cause of cancer and other diseases. This is false. Root canal procedures do not cause cancer. This myth derives from unfounded claims that 97% of people who have terminal cancer had…

The claim: A root canal can shut down 63% of your immune system In the 1920s, Weston Price, a Canadian dentist, theorized that root canals – procedures in which infected or inflamed pulp is removed from the inside of a tooth – allow bacteria to “leak” into the body…