My Amalgum Journey, Part 1

Dear All,

I thought to share my journey with you to amalgum removal, especially since you all have given me so much hope, help, inspiration, warnings, information, and support. I'll be brief, but start at the beginning.

Symptoms: Horrible Chronic Fatigue, tinnitus, reduced sex drive, depression, mood swings, obsessive compulsive behaviors, hot temper, memory loss, brain fog, disorientation and confusion at times, to name a few.

My journey started as far as I can remember when I was in High School. I remember suddenly having to sleep 10 hours on the weekends, and my father being angry with me for sleeping so long. In high school is when I got braces, although I believe I already had amalgums. I was also a particularly gifted student, with a great memory.

Through college I got the usual upgrades to amalgums over the years, and continued to experience the symptoms listed above, plus more I suppose. A few years ago I ran into the book "It's All In Your Head" by Hal Huggins, and was convinced amalgum removal would help me. But the cost at the time was so high, I elected to wait until finances improved. They still haven't! But I'm determined to improve anyway, come hell or highwater.

Flash forward to this year. I continued to be so tired all the time. Nothing like being trapped in your own body! I would want to do things, but be so tired I would have to lay down in a languishing, horrible tiredness that at times forced me to sleep for 2-3 hours. I had cleaned up my diet immensely, but this did not help much. I had done Liver Flushes , colonics, hot/cold showers, but they did not seem to help much.

My family came out to visit from Greece in March of this year, and I wrote some music and performed it at my church in honor or them. It about killed me. I was writing music, orchestrating it, preparing the electronic versions of the orchestrations for the pieces over a few weeks, and then finally performing the pieces. It was exhausting, intensive work--but it shouldn't have taken me out the way it did. That's when I started looking deeper into the amalgum issue again, then read a zillion posts on various websites such as curezone and herballure, and also read another book called "Uninformed Consent" by Hal Huggins, and another great book called "Whole Body Denistry," whose author escapes me at the moment. So I began the trek to find a dentist who would do what I wanted...and this was a journey in and of itself!

I found it VERY HARD to get information from dentists as to what they use and what techniques they do! If I was lucky enough to find a dentist who would list their protocols, they would be in another state, or not do the protocols I wanted. If I called the office to talk to the dentist, the receptionist would be rude or uninformed, and if I finally got the dentist he/she would be evasive or short on time. And a few dentists I did reach by email, but again I ran into arrogance or unwillingness to answer my questions, except for the dentist I finally chose, whom I will discuss shortly. A great resource here was looking up mercury free dentists on the Internet, and Torrie Crocker has been a fabulous friend and help to me in this regard, and also in educating me to the many nuances of amalgum removals and dental dangers. Thank Torrie!!!

Cutting to the chase, I found a fabulous dentist in Glendale, CA named Dr. Erwin (DrErwin.com) and he follows the huggins protocols for amalgum removals. He also has taught anatomy at USC (or is it UCLA sorry), plus he teaches dentists how to do cosmetic dentistry and is incredibly qualified for all this. I was most impressed with his credentials, plus his demeanor. He is a bit detached and clinical, but also very warm and caring when you ask him questions in the consultations. I did feel he was in a little bit of a rush sometimes, but he treated me with respect and kindness. He also recommended I get a Clifford Blood test for compatibility and hair analysis, which I did. That was expensive: $30 blood draw at a local lab, $245 for the blood test, initial consult of $220, plus panoramic x-rays at $85 done at a local lab. Whew, we're at $600 before anything is even DONE!! Yikes! And, he recommended GOLD for the fillings.

Why gold, you ask? Because it is the "gold standard" (pun intended) against which all other materials are compared. As one poster put it (MrCooties?), composite (white) fillings are rated in years, while gold is rated in decades. And it didn't hurt any when this dentist opened his mouth to show me many beautiful gold fillings which he claims were placed in his mouth over 40 years ago. Plus people say dentists choose gold for themselves.

What about sensitivity? Good question. This guy is brilliant. After amalgum removal, he puts down a layer of the composite material (DiamondLite) as a base. The gold onlays/inlays will be placed onto the composite, which acts as a thermal insulator so the teeth will not be as sensitive when the gold is placed.

What about toxicity? Some dental golds contain palladium and other metals which are toxic. I asked this dentist for an MSDS (material safety data sheet). Well he hasn't given it to me yet, but he did give me a small sticker from the box of the dental gold which states to the effect of "this is to certify the composition of the material to be: 82% gold and 18% platinum, and therefore is a high noble gold." (that's a VERY good thing!).

Long Term Benefits. Because gold last so dang long, it means I may never have to have these teeth redone again. That means it could be saving my teeth in the long run. Plus what is the price you can put on your teeth? And how much does it cost to get composites replacedc over and over again over the years? This loads the cost up front.

How Much? OK, brace yourselves. $15,257. yup, you read right. For paying up front, he gave me a discount to $13,825. And I couldda had it done for around $1250 in Mexico. About that. I did a lot of research into getting my work done down there, but in the end I just did not feel safe plus I had read quite a few negative reports about people's experiences there. So I coughed up the dough. Again, see the previous paragraph. What are my teeth worth, and in the long run don't I want the very best? Yes, I DO!

So today I had the endless drillings and preparation and impressions necessary for half of my work: 4 teeth, 3 of which had amalgum in them and one had an aging and failing composite filling. It lasted 6 years, but it looked like hell for the last 2 so I would say it really only lasted 4 years. The dentist really pushed for the gold. I could have had the composites done for $10K, using Diamond Lite which he likes and recommends, but he told me the gold was far superior.

When he did the actual work, he gave me safety goggles to wear, he used a rubber dam around the teeth he was working on, and he also put oxygen over my mouth (loosely though, it did bother me it was not strapped on). He did use a drill, but he said he drilled around the amalgum to make it pop out. A few times it seemed he hit the amalgum, and some of it flew around. One piece hit my goggles; another small piece I found later on my clothes. That really did bother me, I have to say. Plus he did not have me rinse after the amalgum removal; he immediately put down the DiamondLite. I hope to GOD it was clean and free at that moment. I asked him, and the assistant, separately if it had been clean and they both said yes, so I am stuck having to trust them. I would have preferred at least rinsing and spitting before he went ahead with the composite layer! Dang! I will be sure to rinse for the next amalgum removals in a couple of weeks though!!!

The numbness is finally wearing off my mouth, and my teeth HURT! The back two lowers, so I hope I hope they stop hurting soon and there was no nerve damage (yikes!).

I also want to add that when he removed the last piece of amalgum from my left upper and lower quadrant, my whole body felt a peace and strengh return to it that felt so wonderful. Of course it could be just an emotional reaction, as I still have 4 more amalgums to remove in a couple of weeks. But I wanted to share this too.

I am also going to have cavitation ultrasounds done with a Cavitat machine which this dentist has, as well as some other smaller cavities filled. All in all, it's quite a chunk of change and quite an ordeal, one which I hope I will be posting in a few months "worth every penny." I'll let ya know. Feel free to email me with any questions. Bye for now.

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