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Can Ozone Therapy help?

YES, RCT can be a success and can be problematic.  It all depends on individual health condition. We know the outside layer of tooth isenamel inside is dentin. The dentin is made up of millions of microscopic dentinal tubules. These tubules are colonized by microbes from the infected main canals. Studies have shown that bacteria from infected teeth have been found all over inside the microscopic tubules. Even dentists find extra canal or a lateral canal and fill it. The vast majority of the microbes in tubules are stillthere, and are anaerobes, such as viruses, bacterial, and fungi. When your immunity isstrong those microbes hiding in the tubules will be in dormant. In this casethe RCT can be considered a solution. It can turn alive and produce toxin when your immunity diminishes. Thus I always say the main problem of RCT is not in the filling material , GuttaPercha, it is the microbes inside the tubules. Many forms of therapy have beendeveloped and used to solve this problem with varying degrees of success. A study published in 2004 in the Journal of Endodontics showed that the use of ozonated water had the same antimicrobial activity as 2.5 percent sodium hypochlorite with none of the toxicity. The same study also showed metabolic activity in the associated fibroblasts was high with exposure to ozonated water, indicative of a healing process occurring. Another interesting fact is that anaerobic-type microbes produce a positive-charged infection environment. Since oxygen is the only gas that can carry an electrical charge, this opposite charge phenomena attracts ozone to the area and the pathogens are killed. Standard-of-care diagnostics and canal preparation remain the same. Taking into consideration the routes of oxygen/ozone application, root canal therapy goes through a paradigm change.

The additions to traditional treatment are as follows:

1.The file coated withozonated olive oil oppose to ordinary file lubricant

2. Irrigation the canalwith ozonated water profusely

3. Insufflating allcanals with oxygen/ozone gas slowly.

The insufflation processallows the molecularoxygen/ozone to travel into the canals, lateral canals, andtubules.

The molecular oxygen/ozone can travel through thetubules and kill the positively charged microbes andperform a true sterilization. The insufflation process allows the molecularoxygen/ozone to travel into the canals, lateral canals, andtubules. The molecular oxygen/ozone can travel through thetubules and kill the positively charged microbes andperform a true sterilization.

InSeptember 2005, at the IAOMT meeting

in Las Vegas, Dr. Boyd Haley stated, “The use of ozone in dentistry to create an infection-free root canal tooth will create a paradigmshift in the practice of dentistry.”