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60
DecentGoodWatch scoreSummary
A man's 10-year search for the underlying cause of his chronic illnesses becomes an exposé of the dental root canal procedure's harmful health risks.
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- Friends night
- Teens
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Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 52GoodWatch 60
IMDb5.2
Running time
1 h 15 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −21 min on the typical 96
typical 9675Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 131 countries
+121Released
2019
March 24, 2019
7 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
GermanDirecting · 1
- Frazer Bailey Director
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