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dear friends,
I've not posted anything in a long while and thought should share my latest discovery.
during the covid time, I got scant time/ will to visit a hospital, much less a dentist. I had also stopped my depression medication, started exercise and recently joined a gym as well. So, when the teeth were paining a little bit too much, I visited a nearby government hospital dentist. It turns out that he was actually an old friend of ours and had seen my teeth once before, but I hardly remembered due to the time and he was just starting off in his career, quite a young man. So, we caught up and he tells me that I am allergic to silver amalgam. I ask what it is. He says, its the dental filling and he knows I'm allergic to it. I went back home and check whether silver amalgam filling, used by dentists, which is apparently stopped since 2008, is actually a known cause for fibromylgia. I found these articles online, which I confess I haven't read in detail, but here is the abstract:
"The purpose of this review is to examine the evidence for a relationship between mercury (Hg) exposure from dental amalgams and certain idiopathic chronic ill- nesses – chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), depression, anxiety, and suicide. Dental amalgam is a commonly used dental restorative material that contains approximately 50% elemental mercury (Hg0) by weight and releases Hg0 vapor. Studies have shown that chronic Hg exposure from various sources includ- ing dental amalgams is associated with numerous health complaints, including fatigue, anxiety, and depression – and these are among the main symptoms that are associated with CFS and FM. In addition, several studies have shown that the removal of amalgams is associated with improvement in these symptoms. Although the issue of amalgam safety is still under debate, the preponderance of evidence suggests that Hg exposure from dental amalgams may cause or contrib- ute to many chronic conditions. Thus, consideration of Hg toxicity may be central to the effective clinical investigation of many chronic illnesses, particularly those involving fatigue and depression."
In retrospect, I would say that I did suspect this. Metal filings and metal crowns have always had a funny taste in the mouth and I'm allergic to jewellery as well. There is still a post and core filling covered with a ceramic cap, in my dental work and my fibromyagylia pains started soon after. Then I read about mercury poisoning and this heading was sufficient to confirm: Mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings in the etiology of primary fibromyalgia: a pilot study - PubMed " Mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings in the etiology of primary fibromyalgia: a pilot study".
So, could slow mercury poisoning from the dental filling (done years back) have been a trigger for fibromyalgia? Also, could calcification caused in the body due to dental disease have any link with auto immune disorder? I hope to test my theory on my own. I got the dental amalgam removed today and replaced it with IRM.
Bests
I've not posted anything in a long while and thought should share my latest discovery.
during the covid time, I got scant time/ will to visit a hospital, much less a dentist. I had also stopped my depression medication, started exercise and recently joined a gym as well. So, when the teeth were paining a little bit too much, I visited a nearby government hospital dentist. It turns out that he was actually an old friend of ours and had seen my teeth once before, but I hardly remembered due to the time and he was just starting off in his career, quite a young man. So, we caught up and he tells me that I am allergic to silver amalgam. I ask what it is. He says, its the dental filling and he knows I'm allergic to it. I went back home and check whether silver amalgam filling, used by dentists, which is apparently stopped since 2008, is actually a known cause for fibromylgia. I found these articles online, which I confess I haven't read in detail, but here is the abstract:
"The purpose of this review is to examine the evidence for a relationship between mercury (Hg) exposure from dental amalgams and certain idiopathic chronic ill- nesses – chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), depression, anxiety, and suicide. Dental amalgam is a commonly used dental restorative material that contains approximately 50% elemental mercury (Hg0) by weight and releases Hg0 vapor. Studies have shown that chronic Hg exposure from various sources includ- ing dental amalgams is associated with numerous health complaints, including fatigue, anxiety, and depression – and these are among the main symptoms that are associated with CFS and FM. In addition, several studies have shown that the removal of amalgams is associated with improvement in these symptoms. Although the issue of amalgam safety is still under debate, the preponderance of evidence suggests that Hg exposure from dental amalgams may cause or contrib- ute to many chronic conditions. Thus, consideration of Hg toxicity may be central to the effective clinical investigation of many chronic illnesses, particularly those involving fatigue and depression."
In retrospect, I would say that I did suspect this. Metal filings and metal crowns have always had a funny taste in the mouth and I'm allergic to jewellery as well. There is still a post and core filling covered with a ceramic cap, in my dental work and my fibromyagylia pains started soon after. Then I read about mercury poisoning and this heading was sufficient to confirm: Mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings in the etiology of primary fibromyalgia: a pilot study - PubMed " Mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings in the etiology of primary fibromyalgia: a pilot study".
So, could slow mercury poisoning from the dental filling (done years back) have been a trigger for fibromyalgia? Also, could calcification caused in the body due to dental disease have any link with auto immune disorder? I hope to test my theory on my own. I got the dental amalgam removed today and replaced it with IRM.
Bests
. Some say the process of taking it out is worse than leaving it in, but that wasn't my experience. 
