Not a proclaimed biological or holistic dentist, no special advertsing no fancy reputation nothing. but I went there to get a tooth pulled... way out in the boondocks no kidding. and this guy, 28 years experience, was really good. Spanking clean sharp equipment - the nicest I have seen in any dentists' office ever, digital xrays, great talkative dental assistants, took their time and didn't rush... he looks at my tooth and agrees it should be pulled instead of fixed (sheer cracks w/major amalgam).. they numb me up...the dental assistant puts in a rubber dam to pull the tooth... I say ' a dam to pull a tooth?' She says 'oh yeah, with that amalgam in it' she seats that dam so perfectly nothing is going to get past it... I say well then how about something for my nose? She scarfs up a dental mask for me (no oxygen tubes here far as I can tell)... She starts showing me all her pretty molars that she says mr dentist replaced the amalgam in 4 years ago... She tells me she is 51 years young and had a few teeth pulled as a kid... she lifts up a partial with her tongue she says yeah I have worn this all my life, I hadnt noticed till she showed me... She appears quite healthy at 51 years young... I ask her any problems after mr dentist's mercury removal, she says no uh uh. all well and good... In comes mr dentist he says 'well we should be ready let's do it'... he wears these long lenses on eyeglasses so he can get a good macro view of my teeth... he says, 'lets get this amalgam out of there first' (to pull a tooth? I am thinking) he goes zip zip with his drill and lifts that nasty thing right on out of there easy and clean as a whistle, he goes zip zip again and cuts that tooth straight in half about just so far down and lifts it straight out of my jaw without a single twist or tug to avoid possible injury to my jaw he says.. about 2 minutes tops and this guy is done.

Very skilled and knew exactly how to do this without effort, and I go home and have not had a single ounce of pain. And I did not take take pain killers or even aspirin... he wrote a prescription for an antibiotic but i did not fill it... hate that stuff...

All my worry about amalgam removal... biological dentists and their oxy tubes and high prices... i think I will have this dentist get my amalgams out instead. He literally lifed that thing out of there, no fuss no muss no gimmicks, not a single extra molecule of mercury shed in my mouth I am certain. hard to find a meticulous skilled dentist with good hands like that believe me I do know. I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, i have visited so many around here... which is why i went to the next county over this time.

I am happy to report success. In fact I was very impressed by this guy. And I am not easy to impress but you know that...

Hi sosick, interesting that you should mention this. My first amalgams that I had done by a general dentist (not biologic) and I never got sick.

no protection, just suction and him being very careful.....later biologic dental work to get the rest out, I get ill.

I cannot fathom why this is. I guess basically it is simply down to the dentist himself, is he honest? Is he good? is he thorough? It is very hard to know which way it will go and not all general dentists are going to do a bad job of mercury removal, simply because they still use it. I think if they are somebody who is genuine and listens and does what you ask, I dont see how they'll do much worse.

You can get skunks of biologic dentists. I know a few that actually have left amalgam in and simply covered it over with composites, even though they proclaimed on their website about how awful mercury is, how they suffered, and how they wish to help people and get it out (I speak of a dentist here in my own country new zealand when I say this). And to find out he doesn't even do a thorough job!!!! On top of this, he knows about cavitations and knows how they can form and yet he only removes the periodontal ligament after a tooth extraction if the patients asks, but if they dont? He will leave it in there (knowing that they are a prime cause of cavitations).

Now, we all know that most people do not even KNOW cavitations and how on earth would a patient know to even ask that? How cruel is that?

So yeah, there is great evil/dishonestly on both sides of this and some are in biologic dentistry because they can appeal to the sick and raise hopes. Not all, I know some are in there because they genuinely care and hate mercury as much as we do and want very much to heal patients.

Sosick, that is a wonderful experience! so happy for you.

Can you say who is the dentist? I think a lot of ppl will want to know, he could be close to them. thanks Sosick, hope you are feeling much better now!

Better not not much better considering my toxic load. No complications at least from this dentist.

One visit for a tooth extraction doesn't qualify for a referral in my book. Just a good experience considering my recent traumatic dental misadventure the past winter.

However, in Richmond VA, several years ago, I had a great dentist whose work with composites and glass ionomers was impeccable. Not sure if he's mercury free but dentists with sharp eyes and good hands like his are rare. His name is James Glaser, located in Chesterfield if anyone needs a wonderful general dentist in that area.

ok im sorry, do you not want to say who the country denstist was?