Re: Removing mercury fillings/chelation therapy

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> For those who have removed their mercury fillings and/or done chelation

> therapy what was your experience? Did it make any difference? The

> cost of it is making me stressed so I'm trying to way up my options and

> wondering if it's worth it.

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> Prudence

> Australia

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Hi Prudence,

I have had my amalgams (mercury fillings as well as any metallic

dental work) removed and had DMPS chelation therapy.

It was costly but I do feel that it was productive. My Neurally

mediated hypotension was very bad and once my amalgams were removed -

much better (almost overnight). Also, I had several types of metal

(as most of us do) with varying electrical charges so, in effect, I

had a battery in my mouth - throwing all sorts of systems off.

One of my crowns was masking a tooth infection that was quite serious.

I also had root canal crowns removed just in case that was a problem.

I now have no metal in my mouth.

There are risks to chelation but I felt better from the treatments and

would look forward to them. It did not heal me but I was better. I had a

relapse years later but I am sure that I would be much worse now if I

had not had that done. Due to the relapse and loss of job, I was not

able to complete the chelation therapy. I removed half of my mercury

load (that is a guess based on regular heavy metal tests). I also

removed arsenic, beryllium, most of my tin and most of my nickel.

Other heavy metals may have been pulled out once all the mercury was

removed (there is a chart that lists the heavy metals in terms of

which come out first).

It is a way to remove a substantial load (for me at least) from the

body but it was not the cause of my illness.

If I had to do it over again, I would do probably still do both again

but if I had to choose, I would have my amalgams removed and instead

of chelation therapy, use oral EDTA. This was back in 1999 and much

progess has been made. So, with any money saved, I would get my

methylation pathway/detoxification pathway tested so I would now WHERE

my body is not working well. Then support that area and remove mercury

slowly.

It is my opinion that our bodies tuck mercury away in our fat and so

is not so dangerous as people might think. It is not recirculating as much as

when you try to pull it out of your body. If not done properly, you just

re-toxify yourself but those molecules have done damage yet again. I also don't

feel that

someone should do chelation without understanding the risks. Choose

the best provider you can for both procedures. Choose an experience

biological dentist as there is a right way and a wrong way to remove

metal. Search the archives on this list to get a good feel of other

people's experience.

Marti

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Marti represents my experiences with amaglam removal and chelation

exactly-------and almost to the year!!! I had a 40% rise in energy after work

done. I think it has made my body stronger to fight my illness.

God Bless,

Sara

Mom/Grammie to eight

" Trying to live by my priorities rather then my pressures " .

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Thanks Marti and Sara for your posts.

regards

Prudence

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You folks know that removal of amalgams is very tricky, don't you?

There is lots of stuff on the net about amalgam removal.. US dentists

are, I understand, to put it kindly, dangerously ignorant of the

issues..

Int J Toxicol. 2008 Jul-Aug;27(4):313-6.

Legislation and informed consent brochures for dental patients

receiving amalgam restorations.

Edlich RF, Cochran AA, Cross CL, Wack CA, Long WB 3rd, Newkirk AT.

Legacy Emanuel Verified Level I Shock Trauma Center for Children

and Adults, Portland, Oregon, USA. richardedlichmd@...

In 2008, Norway banned the use of mercury for amalgam

restorations. Four states in the United States have developed Informed

Consent Brochures for amalgam restorations that must be given to their

dental patients. The authors describe a patient who had a large cavity

in his left lower molar tooth no.18 that had to be removed by an oral

surgeon. When the patient went to the oral surgeon, the surgeon told

the patient that he would replace the carious tooth with a gold

implant. He was not given an Informed Consent Brochure regarding

dental restorative materials. The oral surgeon extracted the carious

tooth, replacing the tooth with a supposed gold crown implant. On his

yearly dental examination, his dentist took an x-ray of his dental

implant and explained that the x-ray could not distinguish whether the

implant contained either gold or mercury. Consequently, the dentist

referred him to a dental clinic in which the dental implant could be

removed without mercury contamination of the patient's neurologic

system during the extraction of the implant from the root canal.

During the removal of the dental restoration, the dentist found build

up expanding into the root canal that had a black color. The crown and

underlying tooth were sent to ALT BioScience for analysis. Elemental

analysis of the crown and underlying tooth confirmed the presence of

mercury in the restoration. The patient should have been given an

Informed Consent Brochure by the dentist that described the dental

restoration that was used in the dental implant.

PMID: 18821394 [PubMed - in process]