I THOUGHT I WAS DONE BANGING ON DENTISTS

But when I discovered Robert Gammal's book, The Garbage Collector, I learned that I missed root canals, a huge part of the story.

Gammal editorializes:

Nothing works. The whole procedure is based on illusion from beginning to end. If it were possible to sterilize the tooth, then this problem would not exist. There is a blanket denial that bacteria and toxins escape from the tooth the whole way down the length of the root, and not just through the apex. It would therefore make more sense to take the whole root out and not just the end of it. Fantasy and illusion reign in the minds of endodontists.