Hi yeah, generally/mostly it is never recommended to do any chelating with amalgams in teeth. There have indeed been people badly injured by this practise. Some seem to do ok.

I would say that certainly the mercury coming off amalgams is constantly going on, so some people who are so unbelieveably sick, that they cannot even go to a dentist, have actually tried chelation and it may work, because it could serve to chelate out what is constnatly going in. I do not know how much of that will also encourage or pull more mercury from amalgams.

My dentist here has studied for many years on mercury toxicity and has had great success with patients. He does recommend detoxing with amalgams, as he feels the person needs to be in a stronger state before the removal and some are so bad, they can't.

So he does detox them, BUT he uses products that don't seem to give too strong a magnet to mercury. E.g. products that serve mainly to help detox the tissues or help the body clear out some of the ongoing exposure. NDF is the one he uses for that, as apparently ti does not pull mercury from fillings.

Again, his entire work up for that process has got to be taken onboard also. This means diet preparation and other supplemetns of support, and whent he person is improved and ready from that alone, then he starts them on that detox. THen, as they are ready from that, he'll do the removal of amalgams and they continue their detox regime during and thereafter, possibly increasing it further now that the amalgams are gone.

I was unable to do his detox, it did not seem to agree with me. But many of his other patients did well.

Another way apparently is using charcoal or algin, as a kind of mop to help mop up the available mercury, as this can also aid symptoms. But they do not directly chelate, which is a bonus, because they do not pull more mercury out, they just mop up any they come into direct contact with.