Whatever you do DON'T have articaine (Septocaine) used on you. This 4%
solution (lido is a 2% solution) is TOXIC to your lingual and IAN nerves and
can cause permanent paresthesia/dysesthesia. I suffer from a permanent
dysesthesia of my tongue due to an injection of articaine for a lower
mandibular block as a prep for a root canal. NEVER let a dentist use this drug
on you.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: jessie70
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: CS>Mercury Filling removal - anesthesia
Paula, why is carbacaine better than lidocaine? I am also having work done at
the end of this month, removing a large, old mercury filling and replacing with
a partial crown and also two smaller mercury fillings to be replaced. Thanks,
Jess
-----Original Message-----
From: Paula Samuels Anthis [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:19 PM
To: Silver-Eskimo Forum
Subject: CS>Mercury Filling removal - anesthesia
Just an FYI....IF IF IF there is any overlaying illness such as chronic
fatigue/fibromyalgia/hypothyroidism/MCS/EI present we may not clear the usual
local mouth anesthesia of have a mild reaction we have considered normal just
because it is the way we have always felt after dental work requiring injection
anesthesia. I am thankful a dentist actually lookd at my medical history and
said "You know I just attended a workshop and they said that Carbocaine is the
anesthesia of choice for folks like you because it does not clear by the same
pathways that lidocaine does and they said that since the epinepherine can
cause you some problems too, I'll use plain Carbocaine". WOW the difference
in recovery was amazing, none of the jaw sensations or body flu like symptoms.
He was also the doc that refused to use a dam in my mouth because " It
would take so much time in my chair and you will do just fine" when he removed
a mercury filling. I was at the very end of dental insurance and he was
willing to say I needed the fillings replaced, soooooooo. I had to go through
major detox because he would not use that dam, and probably because so far as I
knew it was the last mercury in my mouth......and I could not afford a biologic
dentist.
Although I have not had any need for any mouth anesthesia in the last 8
years (Yea!). I have made my new dentist note that if I need injectable
anesthesia he is to use only Carbocaine for me - - - reply from dental tech and
dentist "No problem, we have it right here" as the tech reached into the drawer
to show it to me.
Pat, we are hoping things go well for the mercury removal!
Blessings from Paula
