I replaced all my amalgam fillings some years ago because mercury is such an insidious poison for the whole body. Every time you chew, you are releasing more of this toxin into your body through your teeth. They say that each tooth is connected to a vital organ. I don’t know if this is true, but I know that removing those fillings was important for my health: it might have even saved my life. It was a traumatic experience because there were so many large fillings, and the new composites were not yet perfected. I call that year my dental year from hell. I had teeth that cracked, and a partial root canal.
The reason I did it was because I was having serious immunity problems: I couldn’t fight off colds anymore. I was sick for months. So I went on a yeast-free diet, took myself off all food allergens (wheat, gluten, milk products), and went to a nauturopath who gave me all kinds of supplements and treatments. It was very expensive. I lost 20 lbs overnight, and had really bad low blood sugar episodes, which I think now were a kind of withdrawal symptom; those foods made me feel good, I was addicted to the sugar high they provided. I remember crying in front of the refrigerator and sitting down exhausted on the floor of the kitchen, not knowing what to eat anymore.
After a few months of this, I asked my doctor what else I could do: he told me that taking the mercury out of my mouth would probably help. So I gave that to myself as a birthday gift.
I have to say that it is one of the most important things I have ever done for my health. I think that taking the mercury out of my body and removing allergens from my diet are the two reasons that my health is so good today. I rarely get sick, people comment on how good my skin looks. As far as dentistry goes, the composite fillings are much better now. My gold crowns are supposed to last my lifetime.
I notice that people who still have mercury fillings seem to be in poorer health — their skin looks a bit gray to me — but that may be my bias. People with the kind of subclinical medical conditions that I had — repeated colds, flus, sinus infections, fatigue, etc. — probably don’t notice their health problems, or they just attribute these things to “normal aging.” But the fact is that having a poison — mercury or allergens — in your body affects your ability to fight other diseases, and maintain normal cell renewal and repair.
If you get mercury removed, go to a dentist who knows how to do it and can help you safely chelate it out of your body. The dentist I now go to see in Mexico replaces fillings regularly, besides other services. People fly in from around the world, and stay at the hotel for 5 days: they fly in on Monday and leave on Friday. By Friday, everything is done.
The dentist is really competent, honest and inexpensive: I had two fillings, a sealant placed upon a badly executed crown (by another dentist), and a really thorough cleaning (removed all plaque) for just $155.00. With the gas, parking, I spent about $200. total. The dentist spent 2 whole hours with me. Coming back from Mexico takes a lot of time because of the line at the border, so I was pleased that everything could be done in one session.
The American BioDental Center is at the Grand Hotelin Tijuana, Mexico. I saw their ad in Vision magazine and called their references, who said that they have high integrity, something I experienced, because they could have told me I needed a lot more dental work than they did.
The center is run by an English-speaking director, Alessandro Porcella. My dentist spoke some English, his name was Dr Julio Eduardo Munoz Lopez. He was very competent, detailed, and honest.
The American BioDental Center
877-231-5701
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