At the Dentist I go to they just take them out, grind the tooth alittle and put the new filing. $135 each tooth.

They didn't even know what a bio dentist was....... Do I have this terminology correct?

Same dilema over here. My dentist has been a biological dentist for over 20 years and your terminology is correct. He takes great percautions in removing mercury fillings i.e. special ventilation system and patient is well protected.

This dentist highly recommends a vitamin c drip after removing fillings.

At this point, I haven't decided if I will remove fillings now or wait. I'm wondering if you can safely remove fillings and do lyme tx at the same time.

Best of luck!

I had my removed 2 1/2 yrs ago. I have to believe it helped. I had a mouth full of them.

I think you'd be better off finding a biological dentist so the fillings are safely removed.

I have had 2 of the gold inlays fall out. One replaced by a gold crown and one replaced by composite.

My 13 yr old has had 2 small cavities. Our dentist refuses to work with gold so I had him put composite in her mouth.

What's wrong with composite?

How about porcelin?

At one point I had about 8 or 9 of those mercury/silver fillings. It has helped a lot to get them replaced. I always get worse when they start to leak. Not to mention the tooth aches...

Now about flouride... It was first used during WWII to control prisioners. It damages the thyroid and reduces your energy levels. I'm to tired to break out of prison.

Once it has leached from the dental fillings and infiltrated the body, mercury becomes a neurotoxin, says Dr. Klinghardt. Strangely, a neurotoxin is a substance the nerve cells voluntarily absorb, even though it is poisonous.

They do this out of curiosity, Dr. Klinghardt explains. Nerve endings in the peripheral nervous system constantly scan their environment, engulfing foreign particles and bringing them across the cell membrane for inspection. ``The substances may then travel all the way up from the foot to the spinal cord and get presented to the nerve cells there.'' If the substance is judged to be harmful, the body tries to produce an antitoxin to neutralize it and eliminate it from the body.

But there are two problems here when it comes to mercury, Dr. Klinghardt cautions. ``As it travels up in the nerve, it destroys the body's mechanism and substance, called tubulin, for transporting substances in the nerves (breaking down the bridges behind it, as it were), and in effect, destroying the nerve. Second, the body has not yet learned how to make an ant-neurotoxin against mercury.''

Laboratory studies have shown that within 24 hours of injecting a minute dose of mercury into a muscle anywhere in the body (monkeys were used in the study), it would be present in the spinal cord and brain. The mercury was also present in the kidneys, lungs, bloodstream, connective tissue, and adrenal and other endocrine glands. In the brain, it tended to congregate in the hypothalamus, which regulates the sympathetic nervous system, and in the limbic system (associated with the brainstem), believed to be the organic seat of emotions.

While mercury levels slowly dissipate in a predictable amount of time from other body tissues and even from the teeth (in six weeks, its levels might be halved), mercury does not have a ``half-life'' in the nervous system or brain. Instead, it binds firmly to a specific chemical compound which happens to exist there in the body's highest concentrations.

``The main devastating effect of mercury in the nervous system is that it interferes with the energy production inside each cell,'' says Dr. Klinghardt. ``The nerve cell is impaired in its ability to detoxicy itself {and excrete the mercury} and in its ability to nurture itself. The cell becomes toxic and dies, or lives in a state of chronic malnutrition. A multitude of illnesses, usually associated with neurological symptoms, result''. Among these are chronic viral and fungal illnesses, recurrent episodes of bacterial infections, and chronic fatigue.

By a curious self-preservation reflex of the body, the emergence of these conditions can be viewed as a way of accommodating the heavy metal presence, speculates Dr. Klinghardt. ``Most, if not all chronic infectious diseases are not caused by a failure of the immune system, but are a conscious adaptation of the immune system to an otherwise lethal heavy metal environment.''

Mercury suffocates the cells and they die, so the immune system cultivates fungi and bacteria which are able to bind large amounts of the toxic metal in their respective cell walls, thereby enabling the patient's cells to breathe again. The downside, of course, is that the body must now feed these otherwise undesirable microbes and deal with their toxic waste. In addition, a person with mercury contamination often becomes zinc deficient and the functioning of copper and other minerals in the body will be compromised as well.

This perspective leads Dr. Klinghardt to the following strong statement: ``As soon as anybody has any type of medical illness or symptom, whether medical or emotional, the amalagam fillings should be removed and the mercury residue should be eliminated from the body, especially the brain.'' (Just removing the amalgam fillings is not enough. That is just the start in order to stop the source of contamination. The detoxing of all of the body has to follow to get improvement. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes it takes years before most of it is out of the body. Relief will come gradually as the toxic load is reduced. GG)

Neural therapy is useful in treating mercury-based problems in the nerve ganglia, says Dr. Klinghardt. Mercury, as a heavy metal (which means heavier than water) tends to accumulate in the lowest parts of the body, such as the floor of the mouth, the pelvic floor, and the feet. Pelvic symptoms in both men and women, ``are very commonly caused by metal toxicity of the Frankenhaeuser ganglia.''.

A mercury accumulation in this nerve plexus can account for premature ejaculation and an enlarged prostate in men, and endometriosis, pelvic pain, and hormonal dysfunction in women, Dr. Klinghardt says. Neural therapy ``cleans up'' this area by injecting the Frankenhaeuser ganglia (just above the pubic bone) with a local anesthetic.

Thanks everyone for imput.

Heather:
It was less than $135 a tooth for me. I think it cost me $1200 for a whole mouthful.

my advice is that mercury fillings are time bombs that could potentially go off. you never know. some people can totally tolerate high levels of mercury and be fine. other people's bodies will freak out. (w/ many nasty symptoms that lyme can give you) my advice would be to get rid of them if you can afford it.

having my mercury fillings removed did not make a difference to how i was feeling but i feel way better now after doing it and dont regret the $$$ spent.

plus i made many cool friends while strapped to the vitamin c iv drip all those months. everyone had crazy stories to share.

also i trust my new dentist so much more because he informs me about controvercial viewpoints of procedures from both sides of the story. this way i make an informed decision on how to proceed. other dentists are have the integrity of the ada more in mind or are just out of touch with the dangers of many modern dental procedures.

Get your urine tested for heavy metal toxicity. Doctor's Data in Illinois can do this, although you will have to pay (only insurance picks up lead testing).

Go to: www.doctorsdata.com (there are other labs too)

Must be ordered thru MD...with results sent to MD.

It has happened that people had a normal challenge test up to the point where they brought their minerals into balance, at which point the body will be able to release some of them. There is no test that tells how much remains in the system and where they are located, except by ART testing.

My dentist and his whole family had Lyme in the mid 90s. They are all doing well.

He had the LLMD that was in Trenton....... who ended up killing himself.

Anyway my dentist still has all his silver filings and is doing fine.

So for now they are staying.

I had one cavity filled and didn't touch the silver.

Thanks for the imput.

also remember that most dentists dont "BUY" into the mercury concept. they claim its a bunch of hogwash. (because they would get sued off their keysters if they admitted the truth) the ama has most dentists pretty brainwashed or tied by the balls if you will. in MN docs who advocate against mercury fillings get run out of town. i am sure it is the same in other states.

with that said GOOD LUCK! at least knowing the mercury removal is an option may be beneficial down the road for you.

regards,
electric