Root Cause (ROOT CANALS)

"Root Cause"* explores the controversial link between root canals and chronic illness through one man’s decade-long health crisis after a dental injury during Australia’s *Schoolies Week*. Combining personal testimony with interviews from practitioners like **Dr. Joseph Mercola** and **Dr. Dawn Ewing**, the documentary questions whether root canal-treated teeth harbor toxic bacteria that trigger systemic diseases—from fatigue and anxiety to breast cancer and back pain—while critiquing modern medicine’s reliance on procedures like root canals and pharmaceuticals. Raw, investigative, and packed with alternative health perspectives, it follows a desperate search for answers across global therapies, dental history, and the science of oral infections.