Very happy to have found this wonderful forum and am greatly appreciative for any insights and assistance. Of course since coming here many questions have now been raised that I need answers for before proceeding.

My situation is that I've got 3 small to medium sized mercurm fillings to remove with no crowns. I also have 1 root canal with a gold cap and 3 other root canals with no mercury or any other metal inside of them.

I've gone to a dentist who is an IAMOT and have an appointment scheduled for this Wednesday who explained everything about mercury, heavy metals, etc. Then he suggested that I should have the 3 amalgams out, the gold cap taken off and the tooth pulled and then the 3 other root canal teeth pulled and a bridges put in.

So we're talking many thousands of dollars, etc. Being a conservative person I'd prefer to just have the amalgams out at this time and see how I feel. If I wait until I've got all the money and as important convince myself to have 4 teeth removed and go through all the agony it may very well never happen.

Based on what I've read on this forum the perfect world would be to have everything removed in 30 days then start chelating. I don't want to have everything removed at this time not can I. Will it make chelating more difficult or impossible after removing my 3 amalgams if I still have mercury sources in my teeth (the 4 root canals and gold cap)?

My main reason for removing the amalgams is to assist my treatment for candida and most importantly to relieve the burden on my ileocecal valve and immune system for being constantly bombaded by the mercury fumes.

When I decided to pursue having my mercury removed I thought it would be simple and easy. But with suggestions to read Huggins and Cutler's books it seems like you have to almost become a research scientist just to have a few mercuries removed. I'd prefer not to do a research thesis on this, I just want to get it done quickly and efficently but not have this become an obsession.

Would it be okay if I just had the 3 amalgams out to see how I feel then take care of the other teeth and gold cap at a later date? What are you thoughts?

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />