Hi Stuart,

When you are mercury toxic, you will find you are usually hypersensitive to many more things than you might be otherwise. I found this also. You certainly do not want to put anything into your mouth that is going to cause ongoing reactions and if you reacted to the zinc phosphate, then you reacted. Your symptoms are real, not imagined. Dentists do this, as do doctors. There is no such thing as a "benign" material going into your mouth. They don't exist.

The only thing you can do, is find out through biocompatibility testing which materials come up the "least offensive". As your test showed you, the zinc phosphate cement is highly reactive with you. Enough said!

You would be wise to get a serum compatibility test done, as well as any other test and find which materials come up the least offensive in most/all tests. Out of those? You can also do a cheek and gum test (get a sample of the hardened material. composite or ceramic, bonding agent, lining agent) and try each in your mouth for a few hours eachday and check for responses.

But again, if you are mercury toxic, you will usually be more hypersensitive anyway. It makes it very hard. I personally feel cerec porcelain is a good bet, particularly if you are more reactive to composites. It is not quite like the old style porcelains and does not have a metal base. They ALL contain undesirables, so that cannot be avoided, as do lining and bonding agents.

I am sensitive myself, very much so. I had testing done. Not sure how accurate it all is, but I think it's worth doing anyway, plus I did a cheek and gum test. Bear in mind, nothing will be perfect and whilst your still toxic, it'll be even LESS ideal. Chelation takes years as well. Certain you do want to have the least reactive stuff in your mouth, but again that might not be possible if the mercury is causing your chemical sensitivity to the extreme. In some people it does this. Keep chelating and get testing done for other materials before you embark on any further replacements. What did the test say for your existing composites? Did you have them tested before you had them put in?

Teeth also undergo trauma eachtime they are subjected to all this drilling and replacing, so don't be in a hurry to get this done again. Do your homework first and chelate in the meantime. That's just my advice, it's up to you. Also you should be on a candida diet. Candida usually is a problem in toxic people, (mercury included). All pathogens are. Candida can also contribute or even cause chemical sensitivites, I've had it myself. In order to find this out, you would be wise in going on a trial diet to see if you experience the typical detox from yeast overgrowth dying.

You need to get off sugar completely (in all forms). You need to eliminate wheat and gluten out of your diet, (contained in bread/cereals/pasta etc). You would be wise in getting off milk and caffeine (both encourage candida overgrowth as well as apparently inteferring with mercury detox). You may even need to eliminate fruit, because of it's natural sugars. Though some can handle limited amounts. You would need to reduce or eliminate high carbs of all kinds, all grains and potatoes, corn, beans, peas, carrots etc.

Concentrate on consuming healthy foods that will not feed yeasts so much. Like eggs, meats (chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, etc), low carb vegetables of all kinds (raw, steamed, stir fried are the best ways to have them). Plain sugar free acidophilus yoghurt, raw nuts (almonds/brazil) raw seeds (pumpkin and sunflower) can be used as snacks. You maybe lucky and may still be able to handle some fruit and non wheat/gluten grains, but I'd be careful. Healthy fats are also very necessary as well as the proteins. Butter, lard, extra virgin olive oil, fish oil capsules (mercury free) etc. They apparently help heal us up (great for the brain).

You should also replace all the minerals/elements that mercury displaces. Mercury interfers and blocks many of the things we require for proper functioning. Selenium, iodine, magnesium, zinc etc. You also need antioxidants - vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium as mentioned, vitamin A and D (Halibut oil caps contain both naturally). I also feel that an overall mix of multi vitamins/minerals is also a good idea as a foundation supplement. I use a good quality powder mix for that (from a lab). The rest is extra additions because mercury inteferes with them so much.

In doing this, just the diet and supplements alone can cause enough detox symptoms, so if you've not done this before, you may find yourself going through die off / healing symptoms. So tread carefully and don't overdo it with high dose supplementation. Diet alone can cause enough symptoms in itself at first. It can take weeks on that diet to experience improvement. The supplements are additions to that and should help.

I would highly recommend a book that I think is almost an essential for anybody with mercury and mercury related issues "Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment" by Andrew Hall Cutler. He also has a hair testing book so you can find out how to test and see if mercury is causing problems in you. There are ways of testing, but it's not easy. mercury is notoriously difficult to test for.

Check this link out on this forum. http://herballure.com/Products/AmalgamIllness_DiagnosisAndTreatment/index.html


So though you may well need to replace your materials with less reactive ones, you may need to concentrate on getting your immunity in a healthier position, not only with chelation but with diet and supplements. It may honestly not matter which materials you get put in, you may find yourself having issues with anything right now. But in the meantime, do what you can to help your body heal. Chelation by the way can often take a few years!

What chelation protocol do you follow? It may not be effective enough, or you may not have chelated for long enough. Also symptoms usually worsen after amalgam removal (all amalgams), because not only are you exposed to more mercury in the process, but the body can begin to try and start detoxing the storage of mercury, which leads to feeling more toxic and often more reactive. Chelation and pathogen treatment are very important. Doing one without the other is probably not wise.