@iwillwin1day maybe you can have a look at manganese.
Mn is used for the built up of tissues (here also vitC, see hydroxyproline) and bones. With bones there are changes reported when being very deficient on Mn.
In my case though, low Mn was the first good influence and still seems to be the main one, obviously am poisend from it through ticks/borrelia.
So in my case low Mn is needed, and the degradation of my gums on some places (only) or my slightly smaller head might be due to (a) dysregulation of Mn pathways. It looks paradoxical of course, though one might reason that my iNOS in the brain uses all the Mn up (but I don´t think that this is what happened/s). It seems that since begin of my low Mn diet some teeth havn´t been supported enough (so my improvement is costly, though I might have hindered it, I guess).
Mn is used for only very few (but often very important) tasks. All tasks can be related (sometimes some imagination is needed) to wound healing, I think.
The most important task is the use in the arginase, for splitting up proteins (... which are also needed in an urgent manner when there is a wound). If the arginiase doesn´t function the being will get poisened from ammonia.