@pennycurious1 I have also had issues related to old silver dental amalgam fillings. I don't know if there is any correlation with pain or neuropathy. Neuropathy seems to happen with aging to a lot of people. I have not experienced that myself.

The amalgam fillings have silver, tin and mercury from my understanding. I developed an autoimmune thyroid condition, Hashimotos thyroiditis. I was advised by an environmental medicine physician to have the old fillings removed and replaced with safer materials and I did. Prior to this, my bloodwork for the antibodies attacking my thyroid was so high, it was off the charts, and a reading could not be established. After removing the amalgam, the antibody levels were readable and low, but still present. At that time, I also had old dental work in several teeth of root canals under crowns that were made of various metals under porcelain. When the root canals began to fail, I had those teeth removed and replaced with biocompatible zirconium dental implants and a bridge also made of zirconium which is a type of ceramic without metals added. I had blood work to test again, and now I was borderline for Hashimoto's, so technically it was not my diagnosis anymore, but the damage had been done. I have been taking desiccated pig thyroid to replace what my body doesn't make anymore because my thyroid was damaged.

Another recent bit of information from my current dentist is a list of the brands of toothpaste that contain some small amount of lead. It says that no amount of lead is safe for consumption. It seems to be in the ingredients as an environmental contaminant. There were a couple brands of baby toothpaste that had no testable lead. If you do an internet search, you can find the source website that my dentist gave to me.