Hi, this is the typical cr*p most go through with doctors. They are in denial about the extensive suffering mercury is causing among MANY. Unfortunately most do not know they have it, and remain suffering without reason and no conclusive test results.

To my mind, mercury is a very common problem, but many people handle it and don't know they are poisoned, just suffer some symptoms ongoing, but can get on with life. others more sensitive or intolerant of mercury get the full blown toxicity.

I would hope this dentist might do some work on you WHILE you see him. Surely you can do preliminary enquiries with him over email and let him know that it's a long trip and tell him about your car and see if you can get as much corresponding done via email as you can before you see him in person and whether he can do work on you on the first appointment.

Just a thought.

As for anything else? I can only make suggestions that the doctor is obviously not very aware of mercury toxicity and he may be a waste of your time. If I were you? i would concentrate souly on your diet, taking supplements like antioxidants, healthy fats and proteins, and get on with the removal of mercury and make sure the replacement material you get is suitable for you biocompatibility wise (you can have a serum test from clifford labs in USA). They will test your blood serum with just about every known dental materials and send you back the thick book list which will show you which ones are suitable or unsuitable. That is one avenue to try for testing.

And you can treat yourself from home with the mercury toxicity. Many are. The best book I know of for this, is "Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment" by Andrew Hall Cutler. It is probably the safest protocol I know of to remove mercury. Here is a link with his details and credentials - http://www.noamalgam.com/vita.html you can also email him too if needs be.
His book is available online. Here is a link to check it out also.
http://www.noamalgam.com/ You'll get the gist of details of the book on here, also where to order it too if you are interested.

Hope that's of some help if you want to give any of that a go. However, bear in mind that the diet is essential and many mercury toxic people make the tragic mistake of not addressing diet seriously enough and can suffer some symptoms needlessly. if you're not already, I would seriously look at your diet and here is another VERY good link on candida (one of the terrible curses in health and most of us have this and don't know it. It can cause illness all on it's own that can imitate a lot of hte mercury symptoms and it makes mercury more toxic, plus combines with the toxicity of mercury and causes terrible misery) The lady on the website I recommend is called "Bee" and she actually goes so far as to claim her diet alone, plus the recommended fats, proteins etc can actually chelate out mercury and other toxins. Not sure if I'd go THAT far, but I think she has a point (to a point). Here is a link to her candida website showing the vital foods to consume to help you, and the ones to absolutely AVOID. Here is the link -
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/candidasupport/

Sorry if all this is a bit overwhelming, but just wanted to try and list everything I could that I think might be of value to you, before, during and after amalgam removal (aside from the serious chelation which should be done after the amalgams are gone for obvious reasons).

Best wishes and hope some of this might be of help if you decide you want to try any of this.