@lucybunyard You could ask to be tested for allergies to material in the dental work. I did some testing with a lab in Chicago called Orthopedic Analysis for all the metals in surgical implants. Hopefully you can find functional medicine doctors or those in Environmental Medicine. Those are the doctors who helped me get past the unknowns in my symptoms. Sometimes conventional medicine and Functional medicine are in different camps as to preventing a problem vs treating symptoms.

My dental issues are resolved now and I no longer have any toxic materials in my mouth. I don’t know if that’s totally possible, but safer materials in restorations. Root canals have cadmium in the compound they use, and it plugs the tooth, but the infection is never really cleared because of the small tubules in the tooth and antibiotics do not get in there. When a root canal fails, the infection can move into the jaw bone which is what happened to me. I’m past all of that now and replaced the bad teeth a few years ago with biocompatible ceramic implants and new crowns.

If you do need to keep dental work that you could be allergic to, the Dallas practice treats those symptoms. You can find that information on their website.

Having safer dental work made a big difference in my health and solved some of the issues that some doctors were missing. It’s all good now.

Jennifer