A clinician explains that before removing mercury-containing amalgam fillings, get tested for heavy-metal toxicity through blood, urine, and specialized reports. If elevated mercury is confirmed, removal can proceed with a personalized detox protocol and follow-up testing to verify levels are dropping.
So I do have some silver fillings and I've been hearing a lot of talk about mercury and how they're toxic. So what should I do? Should I get them taken out?
First of all, whenever we're talking about silver filling, also known as amalgams or mercury or metal fillings, you want to always want to check to see if you have any health issues that correlate it or associate with the heavy metal. Because a lot of people actually have heavy metal toxicity without knowing they have it. And for example, the symptom could be like foggy brain fatigue. And who would thought that associated with heavy metal toxicity? So number one things I would say is start working with an integrative or functional doctor to really have a good workup with your blood work, your urine, your toxicity report. And if that's showing up on your report, then we now can proceed with removing these silver filling or amalgam or mercury or metal filling safely. Then have you getting retesting again to make sure that the level is changing. And based on that, they can also come up with a detox protocol that personalize to you and safe for you. So whenever a patient's coming in asking for a metal filling to be removed, we always ask them about which doctor they're working with, what test they have done, and what driving them to get this done. Because this just more than remove the filling, it's also what to do before, what to do during, what to do after. And we don't want you to think that if you just remove the filling and everything will be okay. You can still have to clean up the heavy metal that already in your system. And that's the reason why the medical dental collaborations is very important to protect you and put your safety first.
