Dr. Katie ToThe Wellness Dentist, CEO and Founder of Center for Wellness Dentistry and Wellness Dentist Institute.

Dentistry Made Me Sick and Nobody Warned Me — Here's What Happened

4 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal testimony, the speaker recounts discovering that dental work—specifically the presence of heavy‑metal fillings containing mercury and lead—has made them seriously ill. They describe a journey from initial disbelief to feeling betrayed by the dental profession, noting that no one warned patients about systemic health risks. By comparing their own experience to the likely greater exposure of patients with many fillings, they link a range of symptoms—fertility problems, brain fog, memory issues—to heavy‑metal toxicity, arguing that dentistry is a major, overlooked factor in whole‑body health.

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I realized dentistry make me sick. And so for someone did not have any heavy metal fillings in the mouth and have that much accumulations of mercury and lead in my system, imagine the patient that have it in their mouth. And then going through that journey, trying to survive and figuring out how I can get better, I realized that dentistry is a big part of the whole body health. And we would not train like that at all. Going from disbelief into feeling betrayed by the professions because no one ever told us you have to watch out for this. And especially when you dig deep into it, you're like, oh, I had fertility issues, I had brain fog, I have memory issues, I have a lot of the symptoms that when you look up heavy metal toxicity symptoms, you check the box.