Thanks Bex. I have a really good mercury free dentist who follows the Huggins protocol - my dentist was mercury toxic himself and went through amalgam removal, chelation, nutritional support to get better. Two years ago he did the compatability test on me because we were talking about removing my amalgams then. I came up hypersensitive to so many materials. He said he was going to replace it with composite. But I never went through with it. My integrative physician was afraid at the time that I would get much worse and advised me against it. The fear with me is that there is a good chance I will react to whatever goes in my mouth as a replacement. But the hope is that even if I react initially, it will be better than the mercury amalgam. And that once the amalgams are out, maybe I will be less reactive ultimately. But the fear is real. I am so chemically sensitive that I moved out of my dream home (because it was moldy and I was much sicker there) and ended up buying my parents house (they moved into a retirement community). So as you can see, any risk of having reactions to something I cannot remove is scary!

Thanks again for your help. I will be speaking with my dentist again next month when I have an appointment with him.