Hi Everyone! I went to my local holistic "metal free" dentist here in Phoenix. He did some high tech x-rays which showed that my root canal has an abcess. I could actually see it myself. He is not a "rip all root canals out" dentist, but he gave me the option of re-doing the root canal, an implant or bridge. I definitely don't want another root canal, after what I have read about them. I don't want an implant because they contain metal. I said let's do the bridge.

I asked him if my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and weird symptoms could be from toxins leading from this abcessed tooth. He said it could be. It could also be from the galvanization between the gold crown on the bottom and the amalgam on the top. Either way, getting the root canaled tooth out should help.

Has anyone had a root canaled tooth out? I am hoping it is not too horrible.

Oh - and here is an interesting thing that happened. Yesterday, I went to my regular M.D. - I said "you are going to think I am crazy, but I am going to have all my amalgams out" He actually said "I think you are right." I could not believe a regular doctor would even consider this! He ok'd the labs I wanted - whole blood mercury, fractionated urine porphyrins (per Cutler's book) - the latter was hilarious. Russ, you think your experience with the lab was weird? The poor lab guy that had to deal with me took an hour and a half trying to figure out what to do about the porphyrins test. Finally, he comes to me with this cup and a roll of foil. He says "you need to pee in the dark and make sure no light gets to the urine". There I was in the dark bathroom trying to hit the cup - let me say, for a female this was difficult. I had to call him from the bathroom and he came in the dark with his little roll of foil. He covered the cup from top to bottom. It was just surreal. I told him now he had done it all! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />