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allergy to dental materials

I had an immediate allergic reaction with dental work some years ago- lips swelled up, giant hives on face, throat felt funny. One patch test found reaction to eugenol ("clove oil") used in dental products. But that allergist retired and it has not been easy to pursue allergy testing to dental materials.

I suspect I also react to plastics and or resins and or glues and or amines used in dental restorations. I also get allergic response (immediate raised red rash with small blisters) to surgical tape and most bandaids (I do not appear to have a latex allergy).

One question I have is where might one go for testing? In Europe it is fairly standard to have patch tests using a "dental panel" consisting of many of the most common dental allergins (such as  methylmacralate) but I have not seen anything here in the US. In addition, I assume patch testing only looks for immediate reactions but I also appear to have delayed hypersensitivy reactions to the materials as well. (Following the immediate reactions, I then had increase in basophils followed by body temp elevation. I continue to have erthyma inside mouth and selling at the sides of the lips for years.) Comments on how to test for delayed reactions to dental materials would help as well, and any other suggestions on the situation are welcome.  Finally, I would be curious if others with allergy to the glues and plastics on surgical tape and bandaids also report allergies to dental glues and plastics.

Thanks kindly for your help.
(For the sake of completion, I also have dermographia, and appear to have other physical allergies; when I was a child, tomatoes on lips would cause them to swell)  
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