I know where you are coming from Jill, it's kind of difficult to really know for sure what any of these dental materials are in fact doing to us over the long term. The reason that I had my gold crowns removed was because of the health problems that started in my life soon after getting them placed. I'm not sure yet what kinds of materials were in my gold crowns (there seem to be lots of different kinds of gold crowns), but I did not want to take chances, based on my past health history. I tried to do the best research that I could on the Internet, I spoke with a friend that used to be a dental assistant 30 years ago, and did my best to make some common-sense deductions. Most of us just do not have the money to invest, or the scientific expertise (or equipment, including a dedicated lab) to measure the true rate of decay of these materials on our own. The vast majority of us end up having to take someone else's word for it in the end--about all we can do is make the best educated guess possible based on the available information. Actually, as Russ pointed out a few months ago on this subject, the best thing we can actually do is take care of our teeth, and not have the need for dental work to be done to them later. :-)

So far, it seems to me as though Walter Clifford's comments near the beginning of this post made a lot of sense, and are coming true in my recovery. I'm feeling much better than I was, once I got the metals removed from my mouth. I also had the CEREC's placed where the gold crowns used to be--and these are a single piece of porcelain, that do not have the traditional metal base underneath them. The shiny (frank) metals from the gold in my mouth indeed were corroding, as could be seen on the bottom of my gold crowns after they were removed. What this corrosion was composed of, I'm really not sure--but it was like a green and white salt, and looked a lot like an old piece of metal that had rusted after years of use (or neglect). They looked exactly like the pictures of the gold crowns shown in Hulda Clark's book "The Cure for all Diseases".

As Bex pointed out, I think that people have to try different things, and find out what is going to work best for them, since we all have different health histories. It seems to be a lot of guesswork right now, but at least we can share our experiences together here on the forum, and start noting the trends that come up after enough people see the same results over and over with any particular material, protocol, or therapy.

Jason