There are really two terms that should be used to more clearly define what detoxification means. The first is:

Detoxification: Normally accomplished by the administration of drugs orally, by injection, or intravenously. Such drugs are usually designed to bind, complex, or change the chemical structure of a particular toxin and change and reduce its toxic properties or to make it easier to eliminate from the body.

Detoxication: The processes by which the individuals own body biochemical structure works to neutralize or eliminate toxins considered to be foreign. The biochemical processes work to remove the foreign substance from the tissues and metabolize it into a less toxic form or cause it to bind or complex with one of the many transport systems in the body so that its toxic properties are neutralized, or reduce it to a form that is more easily excreted. This is a normal body process that is enzymatic in nature often requiring cofactors that are derived from essential nutrients, whether from food or from supplements.

Chronic toxicity with persistent symptomatology can be related to chronic nutritional deficits or metabolic impairments. Bio-Probe has outlined all of the current procedures and protocols for mercury detoxification in its book Dental Mercury Detox."

Also make sure to read these books: Poison in Your Teeth: Mercury Amalgam (Silver) Fillings...Hazardous to Your Health! and Mercury Detoxification by Tom McGuire