My alternative medicine doctor has recommended that I now address the fact that I have 7 mercury fillings in my mouth. He thinks mercury poisoning is keeping me from getting completely well and functional.

I have an upcoming appointment with a dentist who specializes in removing the mercury safely. This will be expensive!!!

Point blank questions for those who have had their mercury fillings removed to try to get better:

What benefits, if any, did you get from doing this?

Did you have to do other things to remove the mercury from your system after getting the fillings removed?

How long did it all take?

Was it $$$ well spent?

I saw a short film entitled something like "Poison Gas, Smoking Teeth" and it was quite scary. If what they say is true, it is quite amazing that the general medical community, including most dentists, aren't scared to death of mercury. I just ordered Cutler's book, so have not read this yet.

I appreciate any response to this. This is a controversial issue.

Welcome to Lymenet.

You might try going to this site:

www.neuraltherapy.com

Then click on "Articles & Protocols".

There are many helpful articles there for you.

Gigi on Lymenet is the expert on this and is very dedicated to helping folks understand the dangers of heavy metal toxicities.

I tried to do a Lymenet search for her posts, but the SEARCH feature sometimes works & sometimes doesn't.

I had many mercury fillings replaced about 10 years ago and had subsequent IVs of DMPS and oral DMSA.

I still need to go back and have more chelation. Getting the mercury out of your body is a precise process. It takes a very long time to get it out.

My dental insurance paid for the removal of my fillings, but I had blood tests and weeks of supplements tailored to my own needs prior to removal. But newer methods have been perfected today.

It takes a lot of research to make sure it's done properly.

Yes, I would do it again in a hearbeat. No one would help me get well and I had nothing to lose.

Best Wishes,
Jan

Also be careful with what you replace the amalgam. Genereally, it is a BAD IDEA to put new metals in your mouth, such as gold.

I had all my amalgams (lots of it) taken out without protection and replaced by gold 10 years ago and that was the beginning of my decline.

Gold keeps the remaining amalgam in your jaw in place and makes it nearly impossible to chelate.

Also, I just found out that I am allergic to gold!!! I heard that approx. 60% of the former amalgam owners develop later an allergy to gold.

This might be the reason why I'm improving only slowly with abx. I will now have to take out all the gold and replace it by ceramic. One more time this will cost a fortune.

Before you put anything new in your mouth please do an allergy test to all possible dental fillings, replacements and glues used in dentistry - it can save you a lot of money and suffering.

I had to wear an allergy plaster for 7 days. Shorter tests are unrealiable.

Also, please have yourself checked for hidden problems in teeth and jaw. Check some of GiGi's numerous posts. Most dentist don't see anything on an X-ray. It takes a specialist.

I had to find out that I have quite some things to be done in my mouth although two dentists before said my X-ray looked fine.

I think you've got to be doing a detox at the same time. Some people recommend activated charcoal and broken cell wall chlorella. If you do a detox, you've got to take tons of chelated minerals to replace what the DMSA will leach out of your system.

Also, I received great benefit from N-acetyl choline (NAC) and alpha lipoic acid, but not everyone agrees with these, and I certainly don't have the medical background to defend them. You might want to do a lot of research on this.

I did, in fact, see many symptoms improve after filling removal. But here's the thing...

In my subjective case, I was sick for over four years before starting co-infection treatment, and that's the only thing that made a dent in the Lyme. I'm now in desperate financial circumstances, and missed out on many opportunities. So if I had the whole thing to do over--remember, this is just one person's opinion, which could change next week--I'd have gone out and bought the cures to all these bacteria. Then I would have gotten a job, and done the teeth on salary.

I am not discounting the importance either!!

You can see more of my comments and story on this post:
http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/
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My edit is a PS......I did TONS of detox!!!!

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I have other friends and family (including my grandmother that was healthy into her 90's), that have a mouth full of metal, and they are as healthy as a bull.

I know other people that are sick, and don't have any metal filling.

Even my dentist said for some people, getting mercury removed is a life saver, some have a slight improvment, and some nothing. Unlucky me, I am in the nothing group.

It's just really a crazy mix of genetics and environmental factors. If you have the insurance, do it.

It's a low risk treatment, and you will be the better for it, well... At least you will have a nicer smile if it does not get you better.

Being sick here, at least I can say I have nice pearly whites.