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Okay. So here's the deal. I have been told by three doctors now that I need to get my amalgams removed. So I guess it is time. I know this is a very touchy subject with some people, but my gut feeling is that it is hindering my rise to wellness.
Anyway, I wanted to go see my local dentist since he has top of the line technology and removes mercury fillings all the time. However, a couple of these docs say that I need to go to a biological dentist? Can anyone telll me the benefit of going to this kind of dentist?
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Beverly
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I have been getting my amalgams removed by biological dentist and I still have a few to go.
My regular dentist would not have been able to remove them properly for me and I had very deep fillings. He also would have wanted to give me root canals instead of trying to save my teeth.
Good luck with it...
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have you tested for heavy metal toxicity first???
many people that do have them removed get a placebo effect after removal and get better. some get worse.
chelating make some people very sick, some get better.
if you want a neutral response this is as neutral as it gets.
do a search on how many people actually got better with amalgam removal.
i am not against removal at all. if you have hypersensitivity or hg levels high, i would certainly remove them.
any new fillings that are done should be reomved with a rubber dam, and replaced =with composite or similar material.
note: composites last 1/3 the time of amalgams. so they will have to be replaced. sensitivity for long period after composite placement means the site was contaminated. the filling(composite) needs to be removed and redone with good etching and bonding to the enamel surface.
this is called leakage and will make the tooth sensitive to cold, after placement.
gigi will be behind me giving you all the positives of removal immediately.
take all information and make you own choices.
docdave
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I would definitely go to a biological dentist unless this dr can tell you exactly how he is protecting you from mercury contamination during the process.
You don't want all that mercury [vapors] being breathed in.
Shop around. Some are not as expensive as others.
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I'm in the process of doing this. Maybe I'm making a mistake using my regular dentist. She and I have talked, she knows why I'm removing all metals from my mouth.
She knows my history of illness. We are doing one tooth at a time. I'm spacing them out by a month or two. It's according to how big a deal the filling is and if it is a removal of a old crown(entirely silver molar crown)and how my body recovers from it.
She uses a mouth dam on me when drilling away the old fillings. Her assistant uses the suction equipment on me the entiring time she is drilling these crap from my teeth. They put goggles on my eyes. I have my nose covered protected by the outer edges of the dam.
So I'm not swallowing, breathing or having pieces of this toxic stuff landing me in eye. They know to use extreme caution with me.
I use chorella by the handfuls before and during and after the procedure for days. I take 10-30 a day. I do alot of other detox things for my body after this to make sure the body has a chance.
I didn't realize how much my teeth bothered me daily until I started to clean up my mouth. One tooth at a time. It's amazing.
My mouth decided to get rid of a large silver crown that was my first crown years ago. Maybe 25 yrs ago. While flossing back in Nov (?)this crown came flying out of my mouth.
I did something stupid. I put it back in and decided to wait until Monday to go to dentist. I wasn't planning on doing that crown until all my little silver fillings had been redone.
My mouth decided differently. Anyway some of you might know, I swallowed that crown. I couldn't believe the big clump of silver filling that my old old dentist (past dentist) had put on that tooth to build it up to add this little crown.
This crown molar cap was tiny compared to the large mass of silver crap he used. My current dentist had never seen anything like it. She couldn't believe that a dentist had done this horrible job of crowning this tooth. Even 25 yrs ago?????
My son-in-law happens to be a dental lab and his trained position is crown making. He made me my new crown. I got a heck of a discount on the top of the line crown. I tell him all the time how much I love my crown and that tooth now.
I haven't had any pain or aggrivation out of that molar since. It didn't need to be sanded or drilled on at all. It fits perfect in my mouth. It know feels like my natural good teeth.
Now the other molar beside it that is nothing but silver filling is ticked off. That molar stays mad all the time now.
It's on the calendar for it's own crown and deep drill removal of silver in April. So I believe I'm doing all the right things with my own dentist.
Thanks to many posts I've read by Gigi on this subject.
Pam
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I did it and consider it one of the best things I've ever done for my health. I had a mouthful done in one day - less mercury exposure that way. I headed right to my LLMD for an IV. Then I chelated with IV's for a few months and retested with the 24 hour urine challenge.
I have VERY sensitive teeth and did not experience any sensitivity from the new fillings. My dentist was a little worried about it.
He was recommended to me by my Lyme Dr. but he is also a member of IAOMT.
I wouldn't recommend seeing any dentist that uses Mercury. For removal or for any dental work.
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Well I know I plan to move to higher levels of detoxing metals after they are all gone and all my teeth issues are done.
I'm taking it slowly. I would not want to put my body into a stressed state. I have 8 crowns, 1 root canal and 4 little fillings.
My parents took all five of us children to the dentist every 6 mths. I was raised to take care of your teeth. I have 2 other siblings that also have poor teeth. One sibling that only has a few cavities in her mouth and she is over 40.
I can remember as a child going to dentist and have 5 cavities at once. Believe me I wasn't raised on junk food. My dentist believes it has something to do with the areas we grew up in during the 60s & 70s.
The 3 with the most dental issues is the three oldest of us. The youngest two didn't spend as much of their lives living in this region of the country.
I've continued my dental visits all my adult life. My other brother and sister due to their excuse of money, have a mouth full of big big problems. My parents are not happy campers about those two adults, believe me. Especially when Mom & Dad had to pay for major work this summer to be done on my sister. Big bucks.
Pam
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Thank you for all the great posts. I did have my metals tested and I was very high for mercury. The doc I was seeing said that my body also has problems absorbing nutrients, and therefore if I would have been able to absorb all of the DMSA pills I took that my mercury would have been off the charts. I have ten crowns and four amalgams. Five of my teeth have gold crowns.
The doc also said that I am having problems detoxing other things as well. I showed a lot of plastics in my system.
I was on chelation and chlorella for awhile, and then because of cost issues I switched doctors. Now I am back to square one. When I first took chlorella I did fine, and then I got violently ill. I started back on chelation yesterday, and I am thinking of going back to Dr. R in Reno at a much slower pace.
My current doctor said that if I don't get my mouth cleaned up that I will get Alzheimer's eventually. If that isn't enough to scare you....!!! Besides the point, I am looking at the whole picture. I think I just need to start on the amalgams, then I can look at getting some of the crowns replaced. My guess is that it will probably take three to five years. We just don't know what kind of material is underneath these crowns.
At this point I have nothing to loose by getting my amalgams out. My current dentist is mercury free and very thorough. I am going to call the office tomorrow and get a detailed protocol.
Thanks!!
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If you're high in metals, I'd get them removed, and I'd definitely have them removed with someone experienced in it.
I had mine out years ago and am very happy I did.
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I had it done and noticed a great improvement. My brother is a dentist and I decided to have them removed by a biological dentist instead. I no longer trust the ADA which he's strongly affiliated. I know he'd remove them unsafely and think nothing of it.
Every person is different when it comes to different metals in the mouth. Metals cause a certain amount of electrical interference with the nervous system. I know I'm allergic to nickel. I have a bridge which I need to replace because it contains that metal. My biological dentist feels it is impacting me more then the mercury amalgams. It's been discovered a great number of people have allergic reactions to it unknowningly.
As far as the bridge, I'll have my brother do that.
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