Patient was diagnosed with breast cancer. "I eat well, take care of myself, I just don't understand this," she told me.

I checked her and found an infected root canal. It was on the same side as the cancerous breast. I referred her to a biological/holistic dentist who called to tell me he had taken a panoramic X-ray and indeed, that was the one tooth in her head that was infected. "How did you know?" he said to me.

"I asked her body," I told him. The dentist added: "That tooth is on the same meridian as her breast. I recommended she have it extracted immediately."

For reasons I will never know, she made an appointment for a second opinion from the dentist who did the original root canal. He told her there was no problem with that tooth.

She did nothing about it and died four months later.