The Garbage Collector: Root Canals, Disease, and What the Dental Profession Refuses to Acknowledge

By Robert Gammal BDS. FACNEM

The dental profession is self-regulating and relies heavily on clinical observation rather than published science.

Consequently, dentists still are taught to leave dead infected gangrenous tissue in the body via root canal therapy.

The dental profession refuses to acknowledge that dead teeth can cause systemic disease. Meanwhile, the medical profession remains largely unaware that their colleagues in dentistry are providing them with a substantial income.

This book aims to give you information with which to make a more informed decision about one of the common treatments that dentistry may offer you. The information may also be relevant for anyone dealing with a degenerative systemic disease.

After reading this book, you’ll know more about how dead teeth can affect your health than ninety-nine percent of dentists worldwide. You’ll also be more discerning about finding a dentist who is trained enough to help you.

With cancer rates increasing, autism rates rising exponentially, and IQs dropping across the board, it’s time to take a careful look at the practices of modern dentistry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Jun 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781982295165

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Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

A Note from a Colleague

Some Terminology

Biography

Informed Consent

Introduction

A Hope

1 The Dedication to Ignorance

The Noble Dental Authorities

A World Unto Its Own

Dead or Just a Little Bit Dead - Call in the Exorcist

Save That Tooth at Any Cost

Special Note

Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds You

Helen’s Story—In Her Own Words

The Greater Cost—Professor Patrick Stortebecker

2 History, Demons, and Heroes

The Golden Age

Dr Weston Price (1870–1948)

Dr George Meinig (1914–2008)

Dr Hal Huggins (1937–2014)

Some Other Clever People

Focal Infection—Reality or Theory

Setting the Stage

The Fabrication of Status

A Rose by Any Other Name

General Knowledge vs. Science

Letter to the Australian Society of Endodontology

Response from the Australian Society of Endodontology

Price–Buckley Debate

3 Why Do I Need a Root Canal?

Fluoride Poison or Protector

Tooth Decay and Some Preventive Tips

The Real Cause of Decay

Anatomy of a Tooth

The Enamel

Dentine

Accessory Canals

What Is an Abscess?

Why Would You Need a Root Canal?

A Note on Pain

The Root Canal Procedure Explained

4 A Mythical Procedure

Clearly Defined Steps: Rational Treatment Principles

5 Science or Clinical Observation

Belief

X-Rays

X-Rays Problem 1: Interpretation

X-Rays Problem 2: The Shadow and the Angle

X-Rays Problem 3: Root Length Measurements

X-Rays Problem 4: Infection

Dredging the Canals: Mechanical Cleansing

Some Mechanical Stuff-Ups

What about the Bugs?

How Many Bugs Is a Lot?

Multicultural Colonies

Death to Bacteria—Maybe!

Antibiotic Resistance

Sterility Impossible

The Latest and the Greatest

Physiological Balance

The Final Root Filling

The Measure of Success

Titanium Implants Do Have a Use

Down the Rabbit Hole

To Summarize

6 Do Dead Teeth Affect Your Health?

A New Language

Mechanisms of Disease

Toxic Insertions—The Ffirst Way

The Allergic Way—The Second Way

Ethics and Bugs

Focal Infection—The Third Way

Now and Then

A Train to the Brain

A Cat Amongst the Pigeons

7 Neural Medicine

Neural Focal Therapy: Energetic Interference and Medicine

Electro-Acupuncture and Energy Medicine

8 Other Dead Tissue Issues

Apicectomy

Pulpotomy—Do You Love Your Child?

Cavitations

Wisdom Teeth Extractions

Fatty Osteo Necrosis

Confidence, Ignorance, and General Knowledge

In Summary

9 Cancer—The Unmentionable Taboo

Endotoxins

Dentistry’s Contribution to the Creation of Diseases

X-Ray Appearance

No Pain, No Brain

10 No Known Causes!

Trigeminal Neuralgia and Other Horrible Pains

Multiple Sclerosis

Autoimmune

Mercury and Amalgam

Crazy or Poisoned?

11 How to Fix the Problem

Faith, Ethics, and Dogma

The Process

The Holy Sinus—Don’t Stuff It Up – No1

The Fractured Root—Another Stuff-Up – Stuff Up 2

Dead Bone—The Ethical Way

Healthy Bone—A Less Ethical Way!

Filling the Gap

Bridgework

Partial Dentures

Implants

The Last Option

12 Case Studies

A Note on Overfilled Root Canals

The Itch from Hell

Multiple Sclerosis

Local Anaesthetic In the Stars

Fungal Infection Under Fingernails

Chronic Headache and Migraine

Pituitary Tumour

Headaches and Sinusitis

Painful Knee

Multiple Allergic Sensitivity

Post-Cancer Depression and Fatigue

Arthritis and Nightmares

Arthritis

Mastitis and Period Pain

A.D.H.D.

Blind Eye

Anal Itch

Heart Attack

The Bleeder

Asthma

Triathlon Again

Diabetes

Latex Allergy

Sinusitis

Neck Spasm

Everything Hurts

MS Again

A Case of the Shakes

The Neural Spider Bite

Pain in the Neck

Bladders

Everything Wrong

Lower Back Pain

Hands and Arms

Endometriosis

Thick-Headed

Liverish Dentist

Migraine

Hypoglycaemia

Overwhelm

Everything and a Bit More

Back Pain

Eczema and Gut Problems

Chronic Fatigue and Retrograde Amalgams

Canadian Eczema

Implant on Abscess

Bell’s Palsy

A Big Toe

Point That Finger

Sinusitis and Headaches

Electric Heart Attack

The Point Is Silver

Appendix 1: Material Safety Data Sheet Information RCP

Buckley’s Formocresol—A Very Special Material: Formalin and Cresol

Cresol

Formaldehyde

Materials Used to Wash and Clean the Root Canal

Hydrogen Peroxide

Sodium Hypochlorite

Biocides

Chlorhexidine

Calcium Hydroxide

Phenol

Para-chlorphenol

Camphorated Para-chlorphenol

Antibiotics

A Word on Trigeminal Neuralgia

Root-Filling Materials

From the Manufacturers

AH26 Powder—Dentsply DeTrey GmBH

AH26 Resin—Dentsply DeTrey GmBH

Pro Root MTA (Mineral Trioxide Aggregate)—Dentsply

Ferric Sulphate

AH Plus Paste A—Dentsply DeTrey GmBH

AH Plus Paste B—Dentsply DeTrey GmBH

Tubli-Seal Base—Kerr Corporation

Tubli-Seal Accelerator—Kerr Corporation

Pulp Canal Sealer Powder—Kerr Corporation

Pulp Canal Sealer Liquid—Kerr Corporation

Ketac-Endo Aplicap—ESPE

Roeko Seal Automix—Roeko Dental

Gutta Percha Points

Natural GP tm Septodont

N2

Zinc Oxide, Euginol, Formaldehyde, Peanut Oil

Sealapex (Base and Catalyst)—Kerr Corporation

Endomethasone

Dexamethasone—A Component of Endomethasone, Above

Glossary

Endnotes

The acquisition of a new truth is like the acquisition

of a new sense, which renders a man capable

of perceiving and recognizing

a large number of phenomena that are

invisible and hidden from another,

as they were from him originally.

—Liebig, in Chemische Briefe, as quoted often by Dr Weston Price

Foreword

Dr Mike Godfrey, MB, BS

It has been fortunate over the years that there have always been a few who refuse to walk away from the truth. I have known Robert Gamal for forty years and consider him to be one of those few. Predictably, just as with those earlier pioneers, there was opposition and ridicule followed by ad hominem attack. However, Robert remained true to his principles, and this book reveals the reasons.

Robert does not call a spade a spade. He quite justifiably calls it a bloody spade. The reader will feel Robert’s pain and frustration as he details the impeccable but rejected research of one hundred years ago, when the leading American researcher Western Price collaborated with Drs Rosenow, Billings, Mayo and other luminaries demonstrating how dental procedures could result in serious chronic illnesses. Thirty years ago, in Hal Huggins’s home, I saw Price’s metal trunk with his accumulated root canal research papers in a black hard back 2 volumes 1100-page book. Inside the book’s cover I read the dedication to his son. Before he knew better, Weston Price, as a leading dentist, had performed a root canal on his son, who subsequently died, and Price then realized the cause of his son’s death.

I graduated in 1963, but like Robert, I had to wait twenty years before I became aware of possible underlying reasons why my patients were remaining ill. The moment was at a medical conference in California when a research dentist, Hal Huggins, told us to look at teeth. A few months later, I flew to Colorado to spend a week at Hal’s clinic, little realizing how it would change my medical practice. I had more hugs from happy patients in the last ten years of my practice than the first forty.

Problems occur in both medical and dental professions, as Robert shows, where standard investigations cannot reveal the real cause. I also had to become reasonably proficient in electrodermal testing (EDT or EAV) with minimal available training. A couple of anecdotal examples could suffice here. Melanie was a twenty-year-old lass with a two-year history of non-stop left earache for which she was on three medications, including morphine. She had consulted ENT and neurological specialists, including an oral surgeon, to no avail. The latter’s rooms were right below mine. With EDT, I identified the likely cause as an impacted left upper wisdom tooth (back molar) that, according to acupuncture meridians, was also on the inner ear. I took her downstairs and asked the surgeon to do a standard nerve block (as per Neural Therapy). Fifteen minutes later, he came running up shouting that the earache had gone. I told him to extract the tooth. Three months later, Melanie came back with her mother to thank me. Her mother then revealed that her daughter had been scheduled for nerve ablation as a desperate final solution.

Another example was an elderly lady with a permanent unpleasant head pain described as like a very tight bathing cap. It started after a Maryland bridge had been placed on two titanium implants some months before. As galvanic testing confirmed a very high current between the bridge and the implants, I informed her that either the bridge had to be unscrewed or she would continue to suffer. She eventually went back to the oral surgeon, and the nerve pain disappeared the instant the bridge was detached. How rapidly does pain stop when you let go of an electric fence? Unfortunately, outside of Europe, there is now even less training available in these additional modalities.

Last century, I somewhat naively thought that my mercury toxicity diagnoses from dental amalgam in patients suffering from chronic symptoms would be welcomed by my fellow GPs. However, with written support from a couple of European professors, both being past-presidents of their Oncology Societies, I successfully kept the Medical Council disciplinary boards off my back for forty years prior to retirement. My main concern with mercury was the proven association with dementia. In 1968, there was an average of sixteen amalgam fillings in the mouths of twenty-one-year-olds thanks to the post WW2 socialized school nurses being trained to fill the valleys where the natural grooves in all posterior teeth were drilled and filled to prevent them getting decay. This practice only stopped only in 1976. However, that cohort had become the middle-aged and elderly, with a remaining amalgam load greatly exceeding the WHO safer upper limit of eight fillings. My warnings in the 1990s were apparently disregarded, and we are now seeing an increasing epidemic of early-onset dementia.

Ironically, both medical and dental resistance to accepting the mercury factor could be due in part to one of the amalgam manufacturers listed adverse effects besides irrational anger, being resistance to criticism. A perfect example to this was Adolf Hitler who refused to listen to his generals’ advice to quit whilst ahead. WW2 could have ended in 1943, but Hitler had numerous amalgams, along with two gold bridges and crowns, which would have guaranteed a continuous flood of mercury to his by then demented brain.

Weston Price led the way with his famous tome Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Ralph Steinman then confirmed this theory in the 1960s and 1970s, with his primary research proving that the direction and volume of the normally retrograde dentinal fluid was hormonally controlled and negatively influenced by raised sugar levels in the blood. Thus, dental decay was nutritional and not a fluoride deficiency disease. Notably, both the Aboriginal and the Maori populations drinking fluoride-deficient rain and river waters, had no dental decay before adopting foods based on white flour and sugar.

Robert’s position on fluoride is fully justified and well supported by science. One of the less known effects of fluoride is musculo-skeletal fluorosis, which presents as diffuse painful joints and is often misdiagnosed and treated as arthritis. Many middle-aged people are long-term tea drinkers with several cups per day. Notably, there can be more fluoride in a teabag than in one litre of fluoridated water. This is then exacerbated by fluoridated toothpaste. A seventy-nine-year-old lady consulted me for an opinion when she was on the waiting list for her second hip replacement, having also had both knees done. She admitted to drinking six cups of Bell’s tea per day since her teens and used Colgate toothpaste twice a day. Both her urine and blood fluoride levels were elevated. but after changing to herbal teas and toothpaste, her arthritis pains decreased so much that she went on a cruise instead of having surgery. The New Zealand Medical Journal published the case in 2018. Notably, arthritis and related hip and knee replacements are annually costing health departments several billions of dollars. Additionally, fluoride blocks iodine uptake, with resulting obesity, diabetes, and breast inflammatory diseases.

It is still a tragedy that proper nutrition is not taught at medical or dental schools, but health is not profitable. Indeed, one could cynically state that the human carcass is unique by only having a commercial value when diseased

Robert’s very well-referenced book ought to be read by all who, as Huggins succinctly put it, are interested in their health.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Myra, Tesa and Ysabel, who had to deal with me during my mad hatter phase and survived it. I thank you for your love, the constant support, and many debates.

Thanks to my parents, who worked so hard to put me through dentistry and taught me how to be in the world.

Thanks to my friend Myrop Moyne, for the initial edit, who laughed as she told me that what I had written was not English.

Thanks to my dear friend Suzi Alesandra for her painstaking work to correct my terrible grammar.

Thanks to the many dentists and doctors and other less-acknowledged health care practitioners that I had the pleasure of working with and who guided me to greater knowledge.

And, finally, thanks to all the patients who taught me the realities of what is printed here.

A Note from a Colleague

My life changed forever early in the 1990s when Robert Gammal tapped me on the shoulder and invited me to a dental meeting at which he was debating another dentist. The topic—mercury.

Following that meeting, Robert invited me to attend a lecture being given by Prof Fritz Lorscheider. Upon hearing the real science about mercury toxicity and realizing what I was subjecting my patients to and how my education at Sydney University was basically a sham, my dental education began anew. Meeting the giants of dental and medical research, namely Fritz Lorscheider, Professor Boyd Haley, Dr Murry Vimy, Dr Jerry Bouquot, Dr Chris Hussar, Dr Wes Shankland, and the master clinician of them all, Dr Hal Huggins, meant that I never practised dentistry as I had been taught again. Amazingly, I was now receiving thank-you cards and letters from patients who were so very grateful for their new-found health. For the uninitiated, the secret to regaining defective health is to first address your dental condition with a biological dentist, and not by a dentist who calls himself or herself holistic. The rubbish Robert and I were taught at dental school was appalling. Our professors should have known the current science at the time yet chose to ignore it and pursue their and the profit-centred dental dogmas that prevailed at that time and ignore the true science.

The Garbage Collector will pique the interest of both the dentally informed and the person struggling to recover his or her health in the aftermath of toxic dental interventions. Robert uncovers and lays bare the politics, scientific cover-ups, and money-driven science of past and current-day dentistry. You will love the read and knowledge provided. Enjoy.

Dr Andrew Taylor BDS

Some Terminology

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland gave us many insights into the world as seen by Lewis Carroll. One of those is conveyed through the character of the Mad Hatter. At the time the book was written, the hatters of the society used mercuric nitrate to cure the felt was used to make hats for presidents and nobility. The exposure to mercury caused them to go quite mad, hence the phrase Mad as a Hatter.

"Quecksilber is the German word for quicksilver" or "mercury". When amalgam was first introduced to the world in 1812, the German and Swedish dentists who used this new wonder material were called Quecksilber dentists or Quacks—thus the origin of the word. All current dental associations were formed by the dentists who wanted to use mercury amalgam. All current dental associations today were originally formed by the Quacks.

Biography

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My graduation from Sydney University in 1974 set the stage of an amazing journey. I worked as a dentist for about forty years in Australia, England, and Nepal, with both Nepali and Tibetan people. It was a truly magical experience. I retired in 2014 and have not looked back.

For the first thirteen years, I did everything that I was taught to the best of my abilities. I did thousands of root canals, advised all pregnant women to take fluoride tablets, and of course poured mercury amalgam into as many people as I could. I did this in good conscience, as it was what I had learnt form great professors. I thought that I was doing everyone a great service. I can only apologize to the people I hurt in this period. I poisoned my friends and family. I poisoned every patient that came near me. I poisoned myself with mercury and a couple of root canals. I am not grateful to the people who taught me how to do this.

Then came a period of new knowledge and new experiences. I met great teachers who were able to show me how these treatments that I performed in good faith could be doing more harm than good. These teachers took many forms. Dr Horst Poehlman, a German medical physician in Adelaide, introduced me to ways of thinking about the body that none in Australia had done. I was fortunate to study with Dr Hal Huggins in Colorado, and I then continued a long, continuous learning relationship with him. These people opened a world of knowledge and introduced me to many other great teachers.

I spent the next twenty-seven years doing the opposite and watching the most amazing healings in many of my patients. I took out amalgam fillings, removed dead root-canalled teeth, and banned fluoride from my practice. I worked in areas with and without water fluoridation. By this stage, it was no surprise that the children I saw with the best teeth and best health were drinking tank rainwater. The worst teeth were in kids in fluoridated areas.

In 1994 I worked with a small group of doctors and dentists to set up the Australian Society of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. This was the first time that the dental establishment in Australia was faced with scientific proof that what they were advocating was in fact making people sick. As a group we brought information into the public and dental sphere about the dangers of mercury amalgam and root canal procedures. We held international conferences in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane with great attendance.

I also decided that the messages had to get out further to the public, so I made a couple of documentaries: Quecksilber—The Strange Story of Dental Amalgam, in 2004, and Rooted in 2006. They are available on YouTube.

By 1994 I had completely changed my approach to dentistry. The treatments were no longer based on what the dental association and professors were advocating but instead were based in published science. As strange as this may sound, the teaching of dentistry at universities throughout Australia is still based in dogma that maintains a status quo of vested interests. It is not scientific, nor is it health enhancing.

My best teachers were the patients. Their stories still amaze me even in my retirement.

Forty years of working as a dentist has provided me a wealth of experience. I cannot sit back and let this knowledge pass with me. I hope that this book will be a way of passing some of this knowledge on to others, which I hope will be of benefit and bring to the world a greater understanding and better treatments. I hope that some dentists will read this information, question it all by reading the references, and then change the way they practise.

I always told the patients who came to me for treatment that I was good at taking out the rubbish but the healing had to come from inside the patient. I just take out the rubbish, and you do the healing. I am much more of a garbage collector than a healer.

I hope the information in this book will benefit you and your loved ones.

Informed Consent

This is what informed consent could look like:

The Root Canal Procedure I am about to perform on your tooth is impossible to do well, because each of the basic premises is impossible to achieve. It will leave you with a dead, gangrenous, infected toxin factory buried in your jaw, just a few centimetres from your brain. It will cost you about $6,000, after a crown has been fitted as well.

All materials used in this procedure are at best toxic and at worst carcinogenic. Some are used only for minutes, some for months, and the root filling itself will stay in your tooth forever. All will spread from your tooth to the rest of your body.

The bacteria that remain, and the toxins they produce, will also escape from the tooth and spread throughout your body. The bacteria may find other organs that suit their life cycle and cause infection in that part of your body.

The decaying, dead tissue that remains in your tooth will continue to release gangrenous gases, which will also leave the tooth and enter the rest of your body. These gases are highly carcinogenic. They are similar in action and structure to the mustard gas used in the First World War.

Such a tooth will continue to release toxic substances into your body, which will travel throughout your body. These substances may affect every organ in your body, especially heart, kidneys, reproductive system, and thyroid gland. It will have a deleterious effect on your whole immune system.

These toxins have been related to the development of cancer, cardiac failure, neurological diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis, weight loss, and Trigeminal Neuralgia and a host of other ill-defined conditions.

Please sign this form if you wish to proceed. _____________________

Introduction

A number of appendices to this book are published on my website at www.realdentalinfo.com

Modern dentistry, as it is taught and usually practised, is one of the single greatest causes of systemic diseases, from rashes to headaches to cancer. Mercury from amalgam and the fluoride in our water supplies are supported by the practice of Root Canal Procedures. Together, this holy trinity of unchallengeable dogmas form the basis of many degenerative diseases.

The desire to help people was the main driving force for me to enter the dental world. In my retirement, I am now able to offer some of the knowledge and insights I picked up along the way. It’s been an amazing journey of discovery, and I have been fortunate to have had great teachers who pushed me in directions of truth. They have been earlier researchers, dentists, doctors, massage therapists, naturopaths, chiropractors, spiritual healers, Tibetan shaman and less-credentialed great thinkers. My greatest teachers, however, have been the patients who came to see me. Each one had a different story to tell, and each one showed me another aspect of how to approach health. Almost all treated dentistry as only one of several modalities that they worked with to improve their health.

I have never made a promise to any patient that I could cure their disease. I strongly recommend that you treat the information that follows in the same way. Yes, this is a sort of medical disclaimer, but it is also a reality. There are many causes of disease, and dentistry is but one of them.

If the disease state is progressed, then you may need to approach your healing with other modalities, as well as getting rid of the cause.

Challenging the status quo in any field is always difficult. When Dr Semmelweis introduced the concept of washing hands after handling cadavers in hospitals to reduce cross-infection in the late 1800s, he was ridiculed and ostracized. Many readers will take this information to their own dentist for comment, which will usually be along the lines of the accepted paradigm. I know that some individual dentists, who have done root canals all of their careers, will become angry for my advocacy of returning dentistry to the dark ages of extractions and gummy smiles.

I make no apology for discrediting the people and organizations who teach that keeping dead teeth in your head is good for you. None of this information is new. It’s been available for 150 years. This information has also been suppressed and denigrated for just as long. It is not outdated, though, as the dental teachers would have us believe. It is in fact, supported by the very latest research from the twenty-first century, and much of that is published in the dental journals themselves. I am merely adding another volume to those already published by other greater minds. Mine is just another scream in the medical wilderness.

The information presented here is not readily available to either dentists or patients.

With this knowledge, you are at least armed to make decisions about your dental treatments. By the time you get through this book, you will know more about how dead teeth can affect your health than 99 per cent of dentists worldwide. You will also be more discerning about finding a dentist who is trained enough to help you.

It’s time for a new paradigm in both medicine and dentistry, if we are to reach health and a great life. Doctors need to get into the mouth and learn what dentistry is doing. There is no pill that can fix the disasters that dentistry creates. Dentists need to get out of the mouth and their molar-mechanic mentality and learn enough medicine to understand what their treatments are doing to their patients. It’s time for all of us to gain a greater understanding about medical principles that are not dictated by industry and drug companies.

Dr Meinig, a seriously well credentialed endodontist and the author of Root Canal Cover Up, broke his silence after reading the research from Dr Weston Price: Millions of people are ill and suffering from degenerative diseases that the medical profession is at a loss in the cause and treatment, while the degenerative disease problem continues to bankrupt our people and country. These two extremely alarming issues and the root canal research sheds upon them, persuaded me to blow the whistle and alert the public to Price’s substantial findings, which could help the public tremendously.

A Hope

My hope is that the teachers of dentistry will take heed and show responsibility for what they are teaching. If the teachers don’t get it, then it is to be hoped that many other humans will get it and will learn enough to make changes in their own lives. It seems that I have screamed for too many years with too many of my colleagues, and still the status quo is just as firmly entrenched as it was in the 1970s. Too many have suffered unnecessarily because of the teachings of modern dentistry. Our society is far less healthy than it was in the 1970s, and part of this can be directly related to what every dentist does every day to make a living. Our cancer rates are approaching one in two. Autism rates have increased exponentially and are currently running at one in forty. IQs have dropped across the board. Mercury is still a huge part of our existence, and our environment is more polluted than any of us thought possible. Millions of root canals are done every year with absolutely no understanding of the systemic disease they cause. We all need to learn too much too quickly.

Geoffrey Robertson, QC, has been one of my intellectual heroes for a long time, and I can only wish that my command of the language was as brilliant as his. For those who have not read Geoffrey Robertson’s work, I strongly recommend it, simply for the pure pleasure of reading really bloody good English. A quote from Rather His Own Man inspires many of the concepts I hope will carry through this book:

"I recite the story of the headmistress who sent all her new teachers this letter:

Dear Teacher

I’m a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness, gas chambers built by learned engineers, children poisoned by educated physicians, infants killed by trained nurses, women and babies shot and burnt by high school and college graduates. So, I’m suspicious of education. My request is to help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated morons. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human."

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The Dedication to Ignorance

The story of how a cast of millions become entrenched inside the structure of teeth and end up causing the largest number of diseases ever traced to a single source.

—Dr. George Meinig

My father used to tell me to believe nothing of what I heard and only half of what I saw. When I went to university to learn how to be a dentist, I promptly forgot his warnings and believed everything I was told. Needless to say, I graduated and became a dentist. Sometime in my thirties, I stopped being a dentist and started to become Robert. It was about the same time that I was introduced to very different ways of looking at and approaching disease, connecting cause and effect between the physical, mental, and spiritual states. From then on, I was very blessed to be led along a path by many great teachers who were all able to shine some clarity on the connections between these three states of being. This new knowledge gave me a greater depth of understanding and was supported by such a vast array of published science that I had to sit up and take notice. Suddenly I had new tools with which to see my patients and present treatment models that would benefit their health instead of ruining it. This new approach was opposite to my previous training. Everything that I had done to my patients till then, which included family and friends, was all based on the officially sanctioned training. I had to make a choice to either keep following the traditional methods or relearn all that I had been taught. At that time in the early ’90s, all the dentists that were beginning to take on this new information were still under the oppression of the dental associations and what they claimed was correct knowledge. Everyone had to tread carefully for fear of retribution in the forms of fines or deregistration. It was clear from the start that we needed to support our treatments and every bit of written information with serious scientific references. The research that was never spoken of at university was indeed voluminous, published in peer-reviewed journals, and supported by other published scientific research. Much of this material dated back about 150 years and, although denied by the establishment, has been supported by scientific research ever since.

I spent he first thirteen years of my career doing everything that the good professors taught me. I used mercury amalgam, I did thousands of root canals, and I recommended fluoride to all my patients. I believed my professors and deans. I have no idea how much disease I caused in this first stage of my career. I spent the rest of my forty years in dentistry doing the opposite. In this latter period, I saw multiple sclerosis disappear after extracting one dead tooth. I saw suicide notes torn up after extracting one dead tooth. I’ve witnessed brain tumours disappear after extracting one dead tooth. And it goes on and on. All these dead teeth had had root canals which were done by dentists who I am sure had the best interests of their patients at heart, just as I did. The end results of their state-of-the-art treatments became glaringly obvious. The body can often heal itself very quickly if given the opportunity.

Surely the teachers have a responsibility to keep up to date and adapt their teaching to the latest scientific findings. Considering that dental students will one day be the caretakers of one of the most important parts of the body, I thought that the teachers would take responsibility for teaching what ultimately would always benefit the patient’s health and general well-being. They are still teaching the same nonsense today as they did fifty years ago. Every dental school in Australia, and many other parts of the world, are still teaching dental students to implant mercury amalgam fillings into living human beings. They continue to teach the lie that fluoride reduces tooth decay and that poisoning the water supply is beneficial for everyone’s health. Of course, they continue to teach dental students how to save a tooth with root canal therapy. People are being made sick every day by what dentists are taught to do.

Hopefully this book will give ample evidence and resources to allow the reader to make informed decisions about treatments that may be offered by dentists. I am also hopeful that a few dentists will take the time to check the references and find out that this information is critical if the health of their patients is foremost in their minds and paramount to their practice. There is no shame in not knowing, but it is definitely time for dentistry to take responsibility for the devastating effects that current treatments are having. I understand there will be ferocious criticism of this work, as there has been of me for many years. I know also that this work rests on a vast foundation of scientific evidence as well as clinical evidence that has been published since the 1880s to this very day. I always used to tell my patients that they should not believe a word I say but instead go and read the information for themselves and then make up their own minds. I repeat this to you, the reader. After all, what follows is opposite to what is taught at universities. If you are a dentist who is only now being introduced to these concepts, then I hope that this is just the first of many books and much information that you will be reading. It is a great learning curve, and everyone benefits.

Dentists are trained to only look in the mouth and leave the rest of the body to the doctors. Doctors are trained to not look in the mouth. Doctors have no idea what dentistry does or that it could affect the health of their patients. Nor do they realize that their income is directly related to what dentists do every day. Clearly a good reason to not tread on each other’s toes.

Although the mouth is a part of the body, this is the one area that medicine does not concern itself with. There are both historical and financial reasons for this, but the net result is that we have a group of mercury-poisoned mad hatters ¹ Medicine has abdicated all responsibility for this part of the body. I’m beginning to think these days that medicine has abdicated responsibility for the body as a whole. The drug companies are the only long-term beneficiaries of our failing health. Medicine does not consider dental conditions as causative of anything. Dentistry simply denies that dental treatments could negatively affect the health of the rest of the body. It appears that the tonsillar folds are the Great Dividing Range between the two worlds. So long as the status quo is maintained, they both live in harmony — the patient is the sacrificial lamb.

Medical students do not learn about the mouth or teeth. I have met some who don’t even know where the jaw joint is. The limit of their oral knowledge really is limited to basic anatomy. They are forced to believe the fallacious protocols of the dental teachers and private trade organizations (PTOs) because that is all that is available to them. I’ve spoken to many medical specialists over a forty-year career, and very few have a clue about anything that I tell them. I recently spoke to a young doctor who told me that the only thing she learnt about dentistry in medical school was that fluoridation was the greatest public health measure ever. She did not know anything else.

Many chronic degenerative diseases can be linked directly to dental treatments. Doctors, not knowing or understanding this, can only treat symptoms without ever finding a cure. They, like the dentists, have been misled for far too long. They do not know that dead teeth can create cancer or that mercury may be responsible for infertility. They all believe that fluoride in the drinking water stops tooth decay and that it cannot calcify your pineal gland or cause hypothyroidism, osteosarcoma, or heart disease.

Dentistry is not the only cause of disease.Its just the most neglected cause of disease.

The issues related to root canal procedures are particularly difficult for the dental private trade organizations (PTOs) because although they claim that this is the bee’s knees among treatments, their own literature contradicts this stance. A quick browse through the references will demonstrate this. The aims of root canal procedures are clearly identified and upheld in the dental journals. These same dental journals also make it astoundingly clear that none of these aims are achievable. This is quite a dilemma for a dentist who, on the one hand, reads that success of this procedure depends on the total elimination of bacteria from the tooth and, on the other hand, that complete sterility of a tooth remains an elusive goal. The idea that mercury from amalgam is safe and that fluoride stops tooth decay completes the holy trinity of lies that carry a whole profession into wealth and a population into disaster. Belief is just that—it is a universe away from knowing.

As Carl Sagan said, You can’t convince a believer of anything, for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe.

The Noble Dental Authorities

All dental associations worldwide are Private Trade Organizations. Most specialist dental organizations, such as the endodontic associations, are