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I was cautioned by my regular dentist to be careful who I looked for help 
from.  He told me there are a lot of strange "cures" for dental pain and few 
work 
and are of real benefit to the patient.
The oral surgeon told me I would always have flare ups of pain from the nerve 

damage and also to be very careful who I looked for help from.  I'm in NY 
area and he gave me the name of someone in the Boston area as the only one 
he'd 
trust.  I tucked it away in a file but have not pursued it.  He called this 
tri-geminal neuralgia.  
I do find the pain is much worse in the winter months and try to keep my jaw 
well wrapped with a scarf when outside.  I also have a night guard that 
relieves pressure on the teeth as I believe I now clench them when asleep.  
Sometimes I wake up at night and my teeth hurt........however as I wake up 
more fully 
I realize the teeth that hurt are gone!  I guess it's like phantom pain.
Teeth are so much trouble to care for but it's worse when you lose them.  I 
hope you will find what works for you.
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Do you mean that you are having trouble healing?  I had an operation where 
they added artificial calcium to my shrinking gums and covered it with skin 
from 
my hip. I think this operation is obsolete now. For months and months I had 
healing problems and the dentist said that my mouth was turning cancerous.  
Then I found out about gluten. I eliminated that and then I healed.
I was to get implants after that but refused since I had gone through so much 

misery already.  I was told there would be maintenance forever with implants 
but that was about 10 years ago... 
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I have not had dental implants, but would never consider getting them. My own 

dentist does them and considers them perfectly safe, but I've read many 
personal tales of people with compromised immune systems going dramatically 
down 
hill after having them put in and recovering almost as dramatically once they 

had them removed. In some cases they didn't know they had any issues until 
they 
had the implants installed. One of the dentists who speaks out often against 
implants is Dr. Hal Huggins. He is also the dentist who was so vehement 
against 
mercury being used in fillings. The ADA banned him from practicing in the US, 

but it's getting rarer and rarer for mercury to be used in fillings now. My 
own dentist who is a member of the ADA very carefully said to me that mercury 

is safe in fillings, BUT he used composite fillings vs mercury now and he'd 
be 
happy to take out my mercury fillings for me. Hmmm. I heard Dr. Huggins speak 

and he was very convincing. He is not alone in his beliefs, he is just alone 
in his willingness to speak out. Hope you get some helpful responses so you 
can 
decided how to proceed. Oh, BTW, I had to chuckle when you put out your 
clarification email. I had assumed correctly you meant dental implants, but 
figured 
you might be getting some interesting responses and IMHO implants of any type 

are bad. We are just not supposed to "implant" put foreign objects in our 
body--it rebels. Back to breasts, I had a biopsy of my breast several years 
ago 
and they wanted to insert a tiny titanium marker in it to mark the potential 
problem spot in case they had to go back in. I absolutely refused to allow 
them 
to do that. I told them they had the exact location of the spot noted and I 
didn't want anything foreign in my body. The doctor was refusing to continue 
with the procedure per the nurse, until I spoke to him directly and told him 
I 
had celiac. Then he backed off. He told me that his late father had celiac. I 

asked him if he had been tested for celiac yet and he said he had not. 
Amazing, 
but I digress a bit ... the point is he GOT my concerns about having celiac 
and not wanting something foreign in my body to further mess with my immune 
system.
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