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Ben Greenfield Life

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Do You Leave in Periodontal Ligament When Doing Root Canals?

Ben Greenfield: Do you leave in the periodontal ligament when doing an extraction? Because if the answer is yes, that's incorrect. That can accumulate an infection, that ligament. So anytime a tooth is extracted or a wisdom tooth, generally the whole protocol has been you leave it in. What that is akin to is kind of like leaving the placenta in after giving birth. And then the gum just grows over that ligament and causes jaw rot.

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