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Titanium Dental implant

I had a titanium dental implant over a year ago and now suffer from dermatitis around my mouth witch has spread to my chin, and eczema on my hands and know in my nose!  I have muscle aches and suffer from fatigue. I had a blood test done through the Melisa Institute and showed a 3.50 in sensitivity to titanium trichloride, the recommendation is to have the metal removed, except no one wants to touch it, because it is a front tooth!  I am 39yrs. old and recently married and wanted to start a family but for one thing do not physically feel well enough and am afraid of the effects this allergy could have an a child, I know MS and Autism are linked to this metal allergy!  If we can clone animals how come I can't find an oral surgen willing to remove my implant!!!!  Any suggestions Am am so tired and frustrated!
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Nowadays decaying teeth is not only the problem of the adults but of children too.
It is very important to visit the dentist to get the temporary crown removed and put the permanent crown. The main aim of the temporary crown is to check the fit of the crown. If everything is perfect, the permanent tooth crown will be placed. There are some basic things that you need to keep in mind to make sure the permanent crown stays safe.  
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what is the aim of your words ? why have you wrote this nonsense ?
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  Hello, my name is Kailyn and I'm 29yrs old. I've had 4 Titanium implants since 6yrs old due to 3 benign Giant Central Cell Granulomas found in my lower mandible after falling on my face while playing (By the Grace of God) at 2 1/2 years old. I spent my entire childhood having reconstructive surgery. I was constantly sick and to this day I still feel ill. My immune system is weakened. My IgG serum 6 months ago was 610. I've had multiple blood transfusions, a bone marrow transfusion,hip and gum graphs. I've been actively seeking help to find the cause of my symptoms since I was 24 after I just couldn't stand feeling ill anymore. It's been so hard trying to find someone who will actually give me the time of day until I moved out of my home state to find better health care. I have now found an immunologist who is listening to my pleads and is now concentrating on helping me build a case so my insurance can pay for this huge burden that has ruined my life, robbing me of any wonderful opportunities life has to offer. He is doing a metal patch test.  I'm a mother to 3 beautiful boys and Im not able to live my God given purpose.  I feel so inadequate. Everything in my body is being affected. I have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic headaches, vertigo,chronic muscle aches and spasms, chronic joint pain everything wants to slip out of its position, right eye is going bad, pressure feeling in throat, tinnitus, itchiness in ears down through throat, trickling sound and sensation at base of skull, TMJ, gastritis, slow digestion and intestinal inflammation, alternating constipation and diarrhea, off and on swollen liver, pain in left kidney, painful ovaries, recently found a lump in my left breast, dry skin, dry eyes, dry mouth, thin hair, I bruise and bleed easily,( I almost died after I gave birth to my son due to excessive blood loss- blood wouldn't clot I needed an emergency blood transfusion), spontaneous clear thin nasal drip, tremors in right arm, spontaneous shakes and tingling in extremities. I "HAD" Hashimotos Thyroditis during my pregnancy with my third son which mysteriously went away 4 months after I gave birth, I also began having nocturnal panic attacks during this pregnancy. They went away for 2 years then came back with avengence. I noticed sugar, salt and stress make these worse. I have PTSD from my medical experiences and trauma at home. Constant nightmares, irritability, emotional and aggressive at times. My good teeth are decaying rapidly. I get shocked hard and easily I have to be careful with what I touch. Painful intercourse, I've had 2 separate spontaneous miscarriages with no answer as to why.  Vaginal dryness. My nerves are sensitive to medications and alcohol thus bringing on panic,...the list goes on and on basically I'm suffering to say the least. I am desperate for an answer and help as I have had thoughts of suicide to escape this suffering, I do not wish this upon anybody. If there is any doctor out there willing to help, please reach out.
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wow this is concerning I just had a titanium implant done.  I feel great but now wondering if I should have done my homework
One implant may not hurt you. My situation is very rare. Update! Still have implants. Tissue and bone feel like they’re receding from them. But they can’t be removed as they were put in with bone that needed to mature with them and the body can be felt under manageable. One implant inpaticular that has always took the stress of maturing is causing me constant pain.  Still can’t get any help I’ve had them 26 years now! Also my Hashimotos never left and I have been suffering with Thyroid disease a nodule has been found in thyroid. Heart and lungs are having serious trouble. All organs still swelling up from time to time. My hips and back are shot they found Ankylosing Sponditis. I was also surgically diagnosed with Endomitriosis..did I say I was suffering? I’ve had a ton of radiation exposure to my head and neck area throughout my life and especially recently  and if I’m allergic to these implants as well it does not surprise me that the thyroid is the first organ to be affected! I have learned so much I could be a puzzle piecing life saving doc! Years of this has caused me to read so many ins and outs! I’m on to something here and it’s big! I am the medical expierence full of systematic knowledge!  If you start expierencing any new symptoms since getting your implant please go get it checked out.
Hello ) Did you take it out ?
No one will help me. I’m not living I’m suffering a slow death. This must be hell.
I understand you.. And fill the same. But what about titan ? Did you take it out ?
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This is just a suggestion but rather than tell your dentists/Oral Surgeons that you are allergic to Titanium take another approach.

Ask them if they know any cases where the use of multipule metals in the mouth cause metal toxicity problems, problems you may get a better response.

If people have a few implants, crowns bridges etc they may have up to five or six metals in their mouths.

I have nine implants placed over many years and need them all out unfortunately. My symptoms are too many to list.

Dentists and oral surgeons seem not to like to be told we are allergic to titanium, even though most implants are only 90% titanium and 10% other and the bridges and crowns have other metals.

I know I have at least five metals in my mouth maybe more as we are not sure what a lot of the other 10% are.

I am terrified of the surgery to remove them but have no quality of life.
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It's been 6 months since I actually had my titanium implant removed and my health has returned. My immune is still weak but generally I am better, jaw ache gone and fatigue/fog lifted, phobia/anxiety increasingly fading.
The body just can not tolerate a foreign object in susceptible people, metal allergy, low immune, stress, history of anxiety/mental problems.
Also mixture of metals in mouth galvanise. And in so called ceramic crowns there may be metal fused and contain metals you are allergic to.
I can highly recommend the doctor, Peter Fairbairn and his very sympathetic assistants, the clinic is 'Scarsdale' in London W8.
The procedure had a complication and was a little traumatic but only because the implant was so strongly adhered to the bone that it required a lot of pulling to force it out in the end. This short term pain was nothing compared to the 4 yrs of pain and stress I went through with it in!!!
But in two sessions it was gone and I healed very quickly. You should be aware that the body will react to having it out so take it very easy for the first month and take lots of supplements to support the healing/detox, magnesium in particular.
Peter also has contacts with professionals researching the issue, including a woman at Kings College.
Please contact him immediately for advice.
Good luck and post here how you get on :)
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Where did you go in Salt Lake City? I need to find someone asap.
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Hi. I had a tooth extracted and a titanium implant put in on Feb 2, 2015. I started getting a sour taste in my mouth, which then became horribly salty,  then bitter. I also had dry mouth. After 6 weeks of this, I got frustrated. I have some unusual allergies, so I just asked the oral surgeon who "has never heard of such symptoms in 30 years" to remove it. He removed it on March 16. My symptoms have not entirely gone away. Some days its still salty, some days its bitter. I still have dry mouth. I am having a bonded bridge made to replace the tooth. This is temporary for awhile until I can possibly get a ceramic implant. No one in my area is doing them from what I can see.  Removing the implant was fairly easy. Good luck to everyone.
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How are you feeling now, after having three implants taken out ?
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Dear Doctor,
      Since the movement of the implant can cause a reaction, could this be solved by leaving in the implant and removing the abutment (installing the healing cap back on) and going with a partial plate?
      I am having allergic type symptoms but do not want to go through with the pain of having my implants removed.
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I will share my research. I have a fractured molar. After reading everyone's experiences with metal implants, I would not have one even if I was paid. I found Bioimplant.at in Vienna, Austria. I plan to have their implant asap. Thank you all for saving us from an enormous mistake. I plan to check the cement used with their zirconium implants. Now to check if zirconium is allergenic. Almost did a couple mini implants, but you good people saved me. You are the honest ones. In the extreme. All the best to you and yours, Erol Baybura Michigan/Hawaii
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I have taken an appointment for removing my implant, once I started getting rashes.  I have used so much steroid, and rashes would come back.  Now I am taking the implant out and I do not know if it is OK.
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Please note that doctors all say not related to implant and coincidental, same as what my surgeon told me when I developed tinnitus 3 weeks after the implant. 7 weeks after the implant I have now developed joint pain in my hips in addition to tinnitus. Everyone needs to report their symptoms to the FDA, otherwise this is brushed aside. I expect to have my one implant removed. I can use a flipper, better than creating serious health issues over a missing tooth.

Also, see the research that fluoride corrodes titanium. Plenty of research on this.
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Yes, I would like the name of your surgeon who took out your dental implant. I developed ringing in my ears, tinnitus, about 3 weeks after my surgery. Now, 6 weeks after having the titanium dental implant put in the ringing is non-stop. I think I need to have the implant out. I don't want more problems later. I don't want to live with tinnitus if I don't have to. Nightmare.
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I had my implant on Aug. 2013. I started seeing allergy problems about Oct. with swelling and redness of my eyes ! rash and itch. my mouth is rough on both lip sides. am 40 years and didn't have some thing like that before ! I had 2 surgeries before , 2009, and there was no problems like what I have now.
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I had my implant done in August 2013. After one week, my problems started with ear infection, imbalance, mild headache and  muscle weakness. I am 55  yrs old and considered healthy before. I had an MRI and found new lesions like in MS patients. Had no family history and no other evidence for MS.  The dentist I talked about this don't think it is from the implant. I haven't tested for titanium allergy. I just saw this site.
Don't know what to do.

Gm_ny2013
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Hello,

I had my Titaniums removed on October 24, 2013. I had three of them. I had them inserted in July, 2012. Three months latter I started having symptoms similar to yours: Brian Fog, Anxiety, Feeling disconnected from the world, Inability to focus or remember anything.
So, I decided to have them removed. It's been three weeks now but I cannot say I feel a difference.
I am happy I had them out and do not regret doing that. I just was expecting for symptom to have started disappearing right away.
How are you feeling? Any improvement at all?
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Hi,

Just want to share that I had my implant removed! Will write again later to share if any of the weird symptoms have disappeared.

I used to be a healthy, energetic, brave, and stress-resistant person 4 years ago, when I got the dental implant.

Symptoms started six months later and progressed, including excessive fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, cholesterol, indigestion, depression. It got so bad, that I spend many days in bed and kissed goodbye plenty of opportunities and ambitions.

I really hope that the removal will alleviate some of these and will keep you posted. Good luck removing the implants!
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hi there did you get someone to remove your implant?
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This is not dental implant related but I wanted to post in this forum just in case:  my dad has been sick since he had a back operation on April 11. They inserted a device called a "Coflex" into his low spine instead of doing a fusion. He has run fevers every month since he had that titanium put in his body. He has severe cold chills (looks like he's convulsing) and his fever gets up to 103 sometimes. This cycle does pass but he still is not himself after. His body is being attacked by something. He gets a rash on his face, flaky skin on his face, runny nose and severe dizziness before these attacks. He is hospitalized and released once fevers go away. This has been happening every month since April. They have run so many tests. Bone scan, MRI's, Bone marrow biopsy, x-rays, blood work etc. All negative. There is no infection in his body. I have felt like this titanium Coflex thing has been the culprit all along. Hard to get doctors to take that seriously because NO NONE is allergic to titanium or titanium alloys. We have finally succeeded in sending a blood sample to a private lab in New Jersey for Melisa testing (metal sensitivity/allergy) and are waiting on the results.
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I had to have blood drawn at hospital and then they had to send it in the box and with paperwork that Melissa test site had given me.  I was never allowed to have the blood in my possession.  

Please read the titanium forum that explains what we have all been going through.  I had to have the test done, but many people do not have to go through that expense now that they have the web site to confirm that their illness from titanium is real.  some people also react the nickel.

Here is to better days, once you get this taken care of.

Serbin
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I had have dull headaches in one of my crowned tooth for at least 2 years. Tired of the pain and headaches and I removed and have titanium implant installed about a month ago.
My headaches got even worse and have inflammation on my adjacent tooth.

I asked my periodentist if it's possible that I am allergic to the post metal. He said it's impossible...
He is the one who said my dull pain would be taken care of 100% if I do implant. Human nature is...if you are ignorant about something, you dismiss it and tend to ignore.
I am tired of arguing with my dentists and doctors. I know something is wrong after the metal post and I am planning to do Melisa test next week. Just need to find out where I need to go to do the test.

There is no official implant failure case due to "allergic reaction to metals"??? Really?
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I find it pretty odd that all of these people are having these same side effects and the only people saying there is no way it can be caused from the Titanium are the doctors on the site.  Imagine that....
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What kind of problems? Mine started with a cottony sensation in my mouth - mainly on my tongue. I had plenty of saliva - dry mouth was not the problem. Over a period of a year it got worse to the point where my tongue was burning. At first the dentist didn't tell me anything about the cement having acrylic in it. Finally after I asked him point blank he admitted it had acrylic. He STILL denied that the acrylic could be causing the problem though. I couldn't get any other detists to take the veneers out either. I was finally able to get them removed after having them in for 2 years. I myself wrote to the maker of the cement - Kurrary- and they admitted that their veneer cement has caused allergic reactions. This was after a year with many dentists telling me that it was not possible. But now my tongue is still super sensitive and I still have problems. I have spent $20,000 getting crowns and bridges to replace the veneers. I also found out that lithium disilicate ceramics burn my tongue.

Find out what the ceramic and what the cement are. Write to the companies that made those products and ask if anyone has reported an adverse reaction. You can also look that up on the FDA MAUDE website.
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I had a Titanium implant on my elbow on 6-27-12 and have been sick eversince.  Rash around my neck/chest and chronic fatigue, food allergies. Drs are just now excepting that I might be allergic to the metals.  Going to have the Melisa test tomorrow.  I've every test that you can think of without results.  
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I had veneers placed in 2009 and have been having problems ever since.  Unfortunately no one wants to believe me.  Where do i go for answers a dr? a dentist?
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