need filling replaced--during pg or while nursing?

[titania8]

ok, so i apparently need one of my old fillings replaced. i don't know whether to do it now, in my third trimester, or after babe is born. the current filling is a mercury one, the new one will not be. im worried about the amount of leaching that may be happening right now, how much mercury will be released when the filling is taken out, and how much or in what concentration that crosses the placenta or passes through breastmilk. :

does all that even make sense??? i just don't know what's worse, ya know? any advice, thoughts? something im not thinking about? the tooth is not bothering me in the least, but the hygenist assures me it will....

[lactationmom]

I just went to a new dentist in my new town and he wrote a book called 'Tooth Truth', he gave me a copy and it's AWESOME. It's out of print right now as he's been busy but if you can get your hands on a copy it would really help. Anyway, I am nursing my 14 month old and will continue for at least another year (or 2 most likely) and have a bad cavity UNDER a mercury filling that is old and cracked. It's hurting and also leaching out a terrible amount of mercury into me and my nursling I am sure. He told me about 2 supplements to take to help bind the mercury for when he removes the filling and to 'pump and dump' for at least 24 hours (ok, this one will be tough on me and the babe) but it can be done and then resume nursing. I would highly wiat until you have had the baby, then go to someone certified to remove mercury, not any old dentist!! There is a website that lists dentists trained in the proper, safe way to remove mercury:

http://www.iaomt.org/

It can be really dangerous to have a dentist remove mercury fillings, so you need to go to someone trained to do it the right way.

Heres a great site I found recently:
http://www.mercuryfreenow.com/

I HTH, I am in a similar boat: needing to get rid of a problem FAST but needing to do it super safely for my child also. Good luck!

[titania8]

thank you so much! i have a lot to learn i am realizing, and had no idea where to start. my dentist still uses mercury for fillings (and also compostite) so im sure he is not on the "know how to remove them safely" list. : again, thank you.

[AngelBee]

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[MamaMamaMama!]

I agree, wait until you have the baby. You will probably have to pump and dump. Do a LOT of reading/researching. Amalgam removal is really serious stuff.

Good places to start:

http://www.livingnetwork.co.za/heali...tal_visit.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...ose-chelation/

It is not recommended to take any supplements to bind mercury (chelators) for at least four days after you have an amalgam replaced, and then only if you have no other amalgams in your mouth. In every single case of amalgam removal, no matter how careful your dentist is, small bits of amalgam get into your digestive tract. If you take a chelator it will take the metal out of these otherwise (relatively) harmless bits and dump it into your organs and your brain. In four days those bits have passed through the digestive trace. If you still have metal in your mouth the chelator will dump the metal from those fillings into your body, too.

Good luck!

[lactationmom]

This is AWESOME, thank you for those links! What you say makes sense but man alive, there is so much conflicting info and most makes sense. How do you know what is truly correct? This is such a serious matter that it's frustrating to read that so and so binds mercury to take it out of the body but then at the same time read that it takes mercury into the tissues also, who is right?


So, the bits that we might swallow are considered fairly harmless? They run right out of the digestive tract without any mercury being absorbed into the system? How is that possible? I know that I taste metal daily and one of my fillings is broken, so I know I am getting some seriously bad amounts of mercury as it is, but I want to be sure not to give my child a bunch with nursing during all of this (although I won't wean her at this age, I think the risk of all this is low enough to just pump/dump and stay away from her for a day or two until I am safe enough).

I joined the Yahoogroup, thanks for posting that link!!!

[tanyalynn]

ok, so i apparently need one of my old fillings replaced. i don't know whether to do it now, in my third trimester, or after babe is born. the current filling is a mercury one, the new one will not be. im worried about the amount of leaching that may be happening right now, how much mercury will be released when the filling is taken out, and how much or in what concentration that crosses the placenta or passes through breastmilk.

does all that even make sense??? i just don't know what's worse, ya know? any advice, thoughts? something im not thinking about? the tooth is not bothering me in the least, but the hygenist assures me it will....

If it's not bothering you now, I'd wait. When a mercury filling is removed (or placed, for that matter) you get a spike of mercury. Even with a separate airflow, dental dam, all those nice precautions.

Leaching is happening now, but it's small compared to the amount you get with dental work. This is based on my reading and my personal experience. I am mercury toxic and having health problems because of it, and when I got my amalgams removed, I could tell that I got extra. Really, if you can wait until your child weans (definitely not while you're pregnant, but really, development is so fast when they're babies) then I'd do that.

[MamaMamaMama!]

Yep, what TanyaLopez said is right on.