This is deplorable. I would steer clear after service (lack of) like this and the cold and indifferent attitude towards your plight. I have indeed heard of similar regarding the Huggins crowd and the fact it appears that greed may have crept into the bargain somewhere alone the line.

I have actually purchased what I thought was an Ebook online on candida. I don't think it was even a page long and certainly the information in it was unhelpful and to my mind misleading and pretty contradictory. I feel that they will use any excuse to charge for anything and everything.

I've heard similar from others who have been rather disgusted and shocked at the charges for other things.

At any rate, definitely move on. Any biologic dentist should be more than happy to answer your questions before getting you in for a consultation. Consider the fact that they are our servants, not our masters. We employ them! So in a sense, we're the boss. They have to answer our questions and we have to be comfortable and satisfied enough before we decide to use them for the job.

Instead, I am finding ego has crept into the dental industry with a number of dentists who seem to think they call the shots in every area. They refuse to answer questions on email/letter/phone and instead try to suck you into a consultation. When this happens? I move on. I know full well that a dentist who does this is more interested in his own gain, rather than my welfare and doing me a service.

They should be able to do provide the following to you before you even see them: What amalgam removal protocol they follow, what protection is provided during removal? What alternative dental materials they use and what are the names of them (composites, bonding, lining, porcelains). Will they provide a sample of these materials so I can get them tested? What kind of cost could I be looking at for amalgam removal (each tooth), just an estimate/example is fine.

All this should be answered before you decide to see them and go further. A true caring dentist will try and answer as much as he/she can to gain your trust and later your custom. A professional would do this. Yes there are things they cannot do having not seen you, but there are things they CAN do. So look for a dentist that will do this for you. You, like myself, probably do not have much money to throw around and you do not need to pay for consultations only to find out you are not happy with that dentists' procedures and ending up poorer eachtime. This is NOT ON.

At any rate, I don't know if this link will be of help to you.
http://www.holisticdentalnetwork.com/directory.php#USA But just in case it can, there are a list of dentists there that might be near to you (I am not familiar with US, so I do not know).

You can also "ask the doctor" (top of that page) if you may require help and he maybe able to aid you in finding a good and helpful biologic dentist hopefully in your own area!

I myself have had to email dentists and I've come across some real cold shoddy ones who refused to answer questions, to ones that side stepped my questions and tried to get out of answering direct ones, to ones that were wonderful and gave me straight answers and even sent me a sample of their materials so I could get them tested.

So you have to really shop around. You may never find perfection, but you should be able to find one that is a little better than the others!