Hi Nicola, you're welcome! well...there is always a possibility I guess that it "could" be some kind of metal from some material you have in there. All of them contain metals anyway, to some degree. There is actually no such thing as a metal free material, becaue they're all made up of these elements. But it is not like amalgams! So that's what makes me wonder what's actually going on here....

I looked up your material in my serum test book and it showed "suitable" for me (and I am metal sensitive and chemically sensitive too). But that may mean nothing because everybody is different. Can you please find out which bonding and lining agents they used? This is necessary. It is always "possible" that one of them maybe a problem. Some materials - glass ionomers can contain metal salts like lead, arsenic etc. Obviously in small amounts, we're not talking amalgams here, BUT this may pose a problem if they happen to leak more.

I think that you need to find out what they are. Then I think you're wise getting a serum test done and if you do decide to place them at some point in the future, even if you find it doesn't help. It will at least be something you can eliminate from the possibilities of what's happening here. Because you are getting this metal taste chronically, rather than intermittently. I don't think I had it as bad as you did. I had it though. And I had more of it when I was excreting the metals, so at times it can drive you nuts. You are literally tasting metals.

Do you find that after exercise/sweating that you can smell some metal on your clothes at all? because that was another way my body tried to get it out of me. Also, people experience different things with mercury/lead and what you experience, may not be what someone else does. I found that and I used to get upset by it because I didn't understand what was happening to me. I used to cry and salivate uncontrollably and many times a day, most days and nobody I knew had that. Yet a doctor I got in touch with, experienced in mercury understood it immediately and said it's classic mercury poisoning and I was obviously a very bad case and my body could not handle or excrete it properly.

So you got hit with a dump at six months post removal and felt lousy for...another six months, started feeling better and now regressing again. Well, it could be that your body had a dump, had awhile of improvement and has decided to start dumping more of it. Reason I say this is, there is no way you would dump the metals out in six months, so maybe more of those metals has arisen to the surface after a break. These things can happen. There really is no one pattern of how your body will dump storage, because sometimes you think you're ok again and wham, you git hit again later on.

Yeah the taste did eventually go, but it came on and off too. I would get the names of the bonding and lining agents, because I'll be interested to hear what they are. This is necessary and they should be able to tell you this. You have a right to know every product that's been placed in your mouth and if you do decide to get these removed later on, make sure you know every product that is going to go in first.

I doubt it would be leftover amalgam, but it's always possible. When I had my composites redone recently in cerec porcelain, the dentist found a bit of amalgam under one of them...so I was surprised. Considering nobody mentioned this when they saw my panoramic xray. Obvoiusly it was miniscule enough that it didn't show up too well.

This is really frustrating for you, but I do know how this feels. It is very confusing when you get amalgams out, get new materials and then get hit later on and you have no idea if they are to blame or it's just stored metals erupting slowly out of you and making you sick (repoisoned basically).