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Sixty consecutive patients who had undergone replacement of dental amalgam fillings and a protocol of nutritional support and heavy metal detoxification using dimercapto-propanyl-sulfate and neural therapy were surveyed. A questionnaire was mailed to the patients and 42 responded, resulting in a response rate of 70%. The reasons for undergoing treatment were many, ranging from a patient's desire to avoid potential health problems in the future to treatment of serious current disease. Although medical diagnoses were made when possible before treatment, this survey studied only the patients' estimations of their most distressing symptoms and their evaluations of response to treatment. The most common complaints were problems with memory and/or concentration; muscle and/or joint pain; anxiety and insomnia; stomach, bowel, and bladder complaints; depression; food or chemical sensitivities; numbness or tingling; and eye symptoms, in descending order of frequency. The most distressing symptoms were headache and backache, fatigue, and memory and concentration problems. Headache and backache responded best to treatment, but all symptoms showed considerable improvement an average. Of the respondents, 78% reported that they were either satisfied or very satisfied with the results of treatment, and 9.5% reported that they were disappointed. (Altern Ther Health Med. 2000; 6(4):49-55).
The results of amalgam removal and mercury detoxification in a group of patients were studied by surveying the patients' retrospective evaluation of symptoms. Patients were selected from the author's private practice and had been treated during the years 1994 to 1997. Only 2 criteria were required to be included in the study: (1) dental amalgam fillings had been replaced with nonmetallic fillings and (2) the patient had undergone an adequate program of nutritional support and detoxification.
Until 1994, the practice had been limited mostly to patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. At that time, the author became aware that chronic mercury poisoning was an underlying factor in a certain proportion of difficult-to-treat musculoskeletal pain patients. Success in treating some of these patients led to requests for treatment from others with nonmusculoskeletal symptoms. Most of these requests came from patients who had on their own learned of a potential causative relationship of mercury amalgam fillings and a variety of poorly understood diseases. These included chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, depression, multiple chemical and/or food sensitivities, multiple sclerosis, and other ill-defined...