Thanks for the replies and the encouragement Veggiemom and Bex. I also got to thinking about my post last night Bex, and started to think later on last night that I hoped that I did not sound like I was minimizing your condition, as suffering for all of those years really cannot feel like a 'temporary condition'. I feel so bad for what you have been going through, and hope that maybe myself or someone else will run into the answer(s) to your current condition. You will definitely be in my prayers, and I will be sure to share my experiences with the forum concerning whatever materials that I decide to have added to my mouth, so we can all track the progress and effects of these materials. Hopefully, by all of us sharing our experiences, it will help us to figure out what works best over the long term, and what works best for the largest number of people that cannot afford testing, or to waste time.

Bex I can't help wondering if you might have an underlying issue beneath your existing crowns--whether that might be amalgam material used to cement the crowns, or maybe decay of some kind. Or like me (and your mom), you may have issues with the crown materials themselves(?). I know that my issues started with my crowns even before my amalgam fillings were put in, and I am really concerned as to what is in my current gold crowns. I am leery of starting any chelation without my crowns also being removed, as there are just too many unknowns to me concerning them at this point. Do you think that there is any possibliity that your dentist would have cemented your original crowns with amalgam, and that your chelation efforts have pulled that underlying amalgam into your system and actually made you more sick? What kind of crowns do you currently have? I have to believe that there is some logical answer to what you are experiencing, it just still needs to be discovered somehow. Your body's natural tendency is to heal itself--it usually only runs into problems when loads upon your immune system become too great for it to handle for whatever reason. Keep your faith in God, our best answers often come only after an intense amount of prior struggle and searching (John 8:31-32).

As far as my biologic dentist goes, I have not had a chance to speak with her directly yet--I have only spoken with the front desk staff (who incidentally have been extremely helpful). I need to get a full panoramic set of X-Rays taken at another dentist where insurance will cover them, and then once the X-Rays have been transferred to the biologic dentist's office, a consultation appointment will cost me $75 to discuss where things will go from there, and what needs to be done, and how much it will all cost (probably around $700 or so with supplemental oxygen). This dentist has just gotten a CERAC machine according to the front desk staff, so she must be impressed with it I am assuming. I am not sure yet whether or not they will use it in fillings--currently they are placing composites for fillings from what I understand.

Well, I am still at work right now, so I had better run for the time being. Thanks again to everyone for all of your posts, and for sharing your thoughts and insights.

Jason