Root Cause (film)
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| Root Cause | |
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| Directed by | Frazer Bailey |
| Produced by | Justin Lyons |
| Starring | Ben Purser |
| Cinematography | Simon Christidis |
| Music by | Mark McDuff |
Production company | Play Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Root Cause is a documentary film produced by Frazer Bailey. The film makes claims regarding symptoms and illness that purportedly can originate from root canal treatment. The film has been denounced by dentists for making false and misleading claims.[1]
The film follows the filmmaker's 10-year journey to solve his chronic fatigue and anxiety, starting with mainstream medicine but then winding through a range of alternative medicine practices, and finally arriving at the conclusion that his old root canals were the source of his ailments.[2]
In the film, root canal therapies are claimed to be associated with cancer, and it is suggested that pulling an infected tooth is a better approach. The film's trailer implies that root canals or infected teeth can lead to migraines, diabetes, lupus, fibromyalgia and heart disease.[1] The film makes specific false claims of "97% of patients with breast cancer had a root canal on the same side as the cancer," and "the #1 cause of heart attack is root canal treated teeth," and that root canals result in inflammation leading to systemic disease.[3][4]