I had all my amalgams out recently. I also had one tooth that a silver filling had been removed from and a composite put in - by a non-biological dentist.

There is a silvery stain at the base of the tooth, not on the gum. I saw the x-ray and there didn't appear to be any amalgam left in the tooth, but I'm concerned about the stain.

I'm planning on starting DMSA next week and am worried about pulling mercury into my broan/organs via that stain.

My dentist initially said it's no problem. Then realizing that she stood to make $1,500 from my getting a porcelein inlay, started to hem and haw a bit.

So, what's the thinking? Pay the dough and be better safe than sorry, or not worry about it?

it's when the amalgams corrode and can permeat in to the dental tubules. is it kind of a dark and bluish stain..

It's actually pretty dark, like a dark silver.

It's within the tooth, not on the exterior.

How much mercury is in such a stain? perhaps it's decay, not mercury...

Is this a problem for chelation?

im not what you should do. because one was removed by a non biological dentist. i guess its possible there still amalgam. i've know amalgam has been left in before, with other people who went to non biolgical dentist.but if the x ray did not show any then maybe. it is decay.

maybe someone else on here can help. sorry!

Ask your dentist(or better yet some other dentist) if the stain is amalgam or decay. In either case ,you should not have to pay to remedy her negligence.

Its caused by bacteria, sometimes if alot of the sides of the tooth has been removed you can see grey sides to the teeth otherwise it will just be seen under the filling. Your dentist should also know this really

Phil

I wouldn't worry about it. Redoing the filling could cause other issues anyway.

Chances are good there's mercury in your gums or jawbone below that silver stain and redoing the filling won't accomplish a thing in that regard whereas chelation will, overtime.

Such a shame and such an expense all of this needless dentistry. I have not had any problems with my teeth, ever really, except endless fixing of teeth that were damaged by dentists when I was mostly a child. I'd avoid redoing any dental work unless absolutely absolutely necessary.

I had a dentist pull a tooth with an amalgam filling about 5 months ago. He threw the tooth into the general waste basket, with all other trash. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but because of the mercury poisoning experience since (partly caused also by this same dentist), of course I've learned that dentists are suppose to dispose of the mercury in special ways. So a couple weeks ago, I also hear that certain lakes near us have been declared 'mercury poisoned'. Well, as I am sure you already know, pursuing legal recourse against idiot dentists is much more difficult than pulling teeth (ignorance of everything is their basis of existence), so I decided I would simply help make their lives rough just as they have done to me, by calling the local DEP or whatever they call the local department of environmental protection around here, and report them for throwing amalgam fillings into the waste basket, which obvouiusly heads to the dump with everything else. I imagine they have done lots of that (just like they did with mine) and that they are not the only ones either.

I also had those stains on my teeth (had 9 fillings replaced) and several had the "stains". On the website of my dentist he has a slide show of many of the teeth he has replaced and even comments that the stains are "in the tooth". When I asked him about it during the work he was doing, he said unless the tooth is removed the stains remain because it cannot be helped, the metals corrode and seep into the teeth. He said the amount was not of any significant value and not to worry about it.

yea, don't worry about it, really. Removing and replacing a procelain filling is not exactly a sterile non-poisonous experience anyway. Why put yourself through that again?

Spend the $1200.00 on some new clothes to dress the prince and find a better love than the last one.

Bicero only has stains on one tooth so one can infer the dentist did something wrong.