Tooth extractions/pulling teeth: potential health risks and dangers
Cavitations, fatal dental infections, permanent nerve injury, bone fractures and more
Apart from the generally arguable usefulness of pulling teeth, here are a number of complications that can arise subsequent to dental extractions, incl. death (listing not necessarily complete).
Special note: The following information based on real-life cases is not published here to create fear but to help erode the unconscionable carelessness with which major irreversible intervention into the body's integrity as practised by conventional dentistry is generally taken for granted (and in this sense, this page continues on from How drilling and filling can damage teeth).
Potential complications from dental tooth extractions
1 A cavitation infection can - and very commonly does - form around the tooth extraction site with possibly far-reaching detrimental effects on health and wellbeing1. According to dentists Drs Munro-Hall, most extractions in adults lead to cavitation infections to some degree, with certain authors estimating that 90% of adult extractions become cavitation infections.
2. Acute infections can arise which require hospitalization with sometimes fatal outcome.
3. The lingual or inferior alveolar nerve can be severed leading to permanent injury.
4. A sinus can be perforated.
5. The mandible (lower jaw) can be fractured.
6. The temporal mandibular joint (TMJ) can be injured.
7. The "wrong" tooth may be extracted.
8. Once a tooth has been removed, its surrounding bone disappears.
Incredible as it may sound, all of the above damages may remain unnoticed by the dentist.
Potential complications from orthodontic tooth extractions
The following information is owed to holistic dentists Drs. Munro-Hall writing in their book "Toxic Dentistry Exposed", quote:
"Orthodontic treatment that extracts teeth can lead to what dentists call collapsed arches. This means that although the teeth may be straight to look at, the fit of the upper teeth against the lower teeth is not in harmony with the shape of the jaw joints and position of the muscles controlling the jaw. The following things can happen.
- Jaw joint trouble (TMD) later on in life.
- Appearance is altered - instead of a wide, pleasing arch form of the mouth, the arches are narrow producing a 'rosebud-shaped' mouth with a weak chin that emphasises the size of the nose.
- Impacted wisdom teeth - lack of development of the jaw bones does not allow room for the wisdom teeth to erupt and they become impacted in the bone. This is why we have far more wisdom teeth being removed now than ever before." (end of quote)
If an extraction is considered necessary...
When it comes to teeth as in other areas, personally rightly or wrongly I don't believe in physical violence including that inflicted for therapeutic purposes. For those who do, Drs. Munro-Hall give helpful instructions how to extract a tooth without having a cavitation infection form afterwards in their book "Toxic Dentistry Exposed".
1 See Dental cavitations and cavitation infections (ischemic osteonecrosis): dangerous hidey-holes in the jawbone.