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I am a dentist. Definitely not a normal dentist. A long time ago I realized that mercury from amalgam fillings could injure patients, so I became "Mercury Free ". The latest research have shown that all metals have the possibility to injure patients, so now I am "Metal Free" as well.
As far as possible I make use of American formaldehyde free composite and porcelain instead. The picture above shows a white blood cell choked with metal, these cells are not capable of dealing with metal.
As part of my "metal and mercury free" service, I offer the option of a detox procedure as well. This involves preparing the patient, removing the toxic load and allowing natural healing to occur. I do realise that I cannot " Cure", I just set the stage for the patients to start their own healing processes. Patients come in four broad categories, Auto immune, Chronic fatigue, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Allergy.
How do we develop Mercury and Metal poisoning?
It is not news that mercury leaks out of amalgam fillings. The picture shows pure mercury droplets on an amalgam filling. These droplets are inhaled and swallowed every time you eat, drink or brush your teeth. Within seconds of inhaling mercury it is lodged in the brain. Mercury is the most toxic metal naturally occurring on the planet, so the brain is not a good place for it to be. Neither is the gut. The science is clear about mercury and the damage it can do. But I found over the years that mercury is not alone in exerting its baleful influence on health.
Patients would come to me having had their amalgams out and replaced with gold alloys and other metals and they were as ill, or worse than before treatment. This did not mean that metals were not behind their symptoms and that the problem was all in the patient’s head as was claimed, but just the opposite. It meant that the patient’s defences were so weakened that they could not cope with removing the amalgam and having a new metal placed in their teeth instead. I found palladium to be the worst culprit but had patients who reacted to gold, platinum indeed the whole range of metals used in dentistry.
Even worse was to come. Patients would come to me insisting that something was wrong in the bone where a tooth had been removed years previously. By utilizing CT scans holes were found in the bone where teeth had been extracted years before. These holes were full of organic poisons as well, they are now known as cavitations. These toxins came from bacteria "walled up" in the dead teeth or bone. The bacteria are anaerobic, which means they live without oxygen, and it is their metabolic by products that are the problem. To put it another way, they live inside a walled city protected from the body’s immune system by the city wall. However, they throw their rubbish over the wall, which poisons the environment and weakens the defenders. The body has no method of dealing with these toxins and they accumulate in the body over the years. Tests for these organic toxins are now available.
All of this have lead to valuable lessons learned. The most important one learned was to listen to my patients and trust what they tell me. It is important to ask them how they feel and not to rely absolutely on laboratory tests. Many a patient would come to me with files of laboratory results, all within the normal ranges, but still they were sick. It really means that we are at an early stage in the understanding of patients poisoned by heavy metals and organic toxins.
So imagine this, you are exposed to mercury from your fillings. It accumulates in the body over the years. The organic toxins from the bacteria accumulate over the years. Other metals and chemicals enter the body and accumulate for years. It is like taking a trip from the house and leaving a tap dripping in the sink. Eventually it will run over and cause damage. When it will cause damage depends on how big the sink is, (your resistance) and how fast the tap is dripping (your exposure to the toxins). You must turn off the tap (reduce toxin exposure) and pull out the plug from the sink (get rid of the accumulated toxins). Easy to say but hard to do. Perhaps you get back early enough from the trip to turn off the tap, empty the sink and prevent catastrophic damage. Or maybe you are too late, the water has overflowed, it has brought down the ceiling, ruined the carpets and soaked the walls. Then it becomes a lengthy job to get back to the state you were in before the trip, if indeed you can. Attacking the symptoms is not enough, you must sort out the tap and the sink or the symptoms will come back. This is a good analogy because on some people the carpets are damaged, on others the ceiling is down. The repairers of the ceilings and the carpet dealers may tell you the two are unrelated events but this is not so, it depends where the sink was placed, i.e. individual variation. It doesn’t take Einstein to work it out, because experience of hundreds of patients over many years shows us that turning off the tap and emptying the sink will allow patients to recover.
What I do and why I do it
There is a strict timetable in what I do. This has to be followed, no short cuts or you are reducing the patient’s chance of recovery or risking complications. The sink has to be prepared first for emptying, the leaks sealed and the drains open. This takes at least four weeks of diet modification and supplementation.
- pH checked and controlled. The majority of patients are too acidic but alkaline patients are seen too. Modern diet, drugs, infections, chemicals and soft drinks all contribute to our acidic inner environment. pH is measured daily in saliva and urine. Potassium citrate or lemon juice will regulate over acidity, milk whey is good for alkaline patients. We want to see a urine pH of 6.5 minimum and 6.8 for saliva without the wild fluctuations commonly seen at the beginning of treatment. A good stable pH sets the stage for the rest of the cast we are going to call on.
- Good gut bacteria. I use organically grown living cultures. These bugs crowd out the baddies and start sealing up the intestine. Doing steps 1 and 2 corrects most Candida we see. Mercury plays havoc with bacteria because it is so toxic. Those bugs that can survive mercury poisoning become antibiotic resistant and upset the gut flora. Nearly all patients have digestive problems and/or food sensitivities. Constipation and/or diarrhoea as the most commonly seen symptoms. The problem starts with the gut. The gut has to be addressed first. No exceptions. I give a whole range of supplements, essential fatty acids, fruitoligo-saccarrides, many different minerals and vitamins. I want to seal the intestine to prevent immune system and liver detoxification system overload. Do not even dream of putting a drill inside the mouth until the immune and liver detoxification systems are optimised. Patients have mineral imbalances due to diet and poor absorption.
When we drill or do surgery we cause the patient stress. The better the patient is prepared to handle this stress, the quicker will be the end result. Now the sink is leak proof and the drains are open, time to turn the tap off. You cannot turn off the tap without first opening it, which is why it is essential to get the sink ready. The patient is exposed to the toxins when they are removed, so the risk of this must be reduced.
During the week of hands on treatment, the patient has infusions of intravenous vitamin C with the addition of reduced glutathione daily for five days. How much is infused depends on the weight and condition of the patient. 120 grams of vitamin C given IV daily is not unknown. Laboratory testing has indicated large amounts of dental metals are released by the infusions into the stool. This is the way the body normally gets rid of metal, using the Glutathione Pathway via the bile into the stool. This biochemistry works wonderfully well because we are supporting the bodies own detoxification mechanism by not throwing chelation chemicals into the body.
Why Glutathion and not DMPS or DMSA?
I do not use DMPS or DMSA for a variety of reasons but mainly because they remove metal only from the bloodstream and push it through the kidneys, which is not the way the body should get rid of metals.
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