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  1. J

    The Dr. Logan Gut Interview Part II

    ME patients following impressive models, like Logan, etc. The post on co-cure that drew me to this thread made me think it was new material from Dr. Logan. Instead it was the post of one of us giving us valuable experience following suggestions/implications of what I and others think to be...
  2. J

    Root Canals

    how to deal with dentures laser if available re dentists who can do it and re cost sounds good to me, but because of the derth of dentists who'd be available to most of us to use this method AND the cost and thus I want to hear everything about it from those who can try it, I and others are...
  3. J

    Root Canals

    can root canals get rid of infection? I think we raised this before but it is so important: When there is infection, how best can dentists determine its existence when there are no obvious symptoms? Is the root canal procedure variable depending on excellence of dentist and/or other...
  4. J

    If H2S is the cause? Is Bismuth subsalicylate the treatment?

    In reading that the aluminum in PB was the result of bad methodology I guess the only thing to do is search medline to see what others have said. The main point I really wanted to make about PB is that it has salycilate in it and in me causes bad migraines. Also, while I don't know the...
  5. J

    Root Canals

    I haven't read the Goldman material yet except for tidbits. And they sound very sane and not utterly certain there is only one way for all teeth (root canal and extraction are appropriate at different times, and I hope in cases where root canal works he speaks to how the dentist can determine...
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    Root Canals

    Because of no dental insurance and no independent funds to support my awful teeth habit, I've had to go to the clinic at the U of PA dental school. Although the logistics of the bureaucracy there are horrible I have finally gotten started with a full mouth x-ray (not one x-ray of the full mouth...
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    If H2S is the cause? Is Bismuth subsalicylate the treatment?

    Pepto Bismol has salicylate in it, thus . . . I have many gut problems and the neurocognitive ones that Logan and de M, themselves and via Cort, has described. That's what drew me to this forum and I shall be discussing it with my ME doc when I next see him. As for P-B, if it has alum in...