Hi Scarlet, well thank you for such a kind and complimentary post! wow. Hard for me to know what to say to that, so without sounding gushy, I am touched.

I think that things have gotten so bad for me heatlhwise, that I have literally become glued to my computer as my only outlet and source of life. I can sit here often in a stupor toxic state, yet my fingers are nimble and I use them to express myself, as I do not do in reality. So people get the impression I'm normal, yet if they saw what was on the other end of this screen much of the time, I think a few jaws would drop (I can imagine many of you knw exactly what I'm saying).

But what you said about sleeping your life away almost? I am doing this a lot now too, and wanting to sleep or I feel drugged, or I'm in a hyped up fearful state with racing heart. So it's all just overwhelming daily now. I get on this website and it's probably my life now and a little sanity for me and others on here, like yourself are very giving and help a lot, so what you put out, I guess you're getting back because it encourages people like me.

So thank you all too.

As for the dental materials? I have sat on this computer searching up just about everything and I have wanted to tear my hair out. No matter what material I search for, plastic, porcelain, there are drawbacks and concerning ones too. I find out that every material has metals, even the ones who claim not to. What I don't understand is, I was told aluminium oxide is not toxic. Our own skeleton is made up with it and it's in baking powder and even an ordinary garden salad. that we get less aluminium exposure from porcelain in a lifetime than we get from the foods we eat (cheese also).

So this confuses me why it's been told it's toxic! I can understand it being toxic when it's in direct contact with different metals like mercury or others, because it creates a battery effect in the mouth (as do any opposing metals) and then creates havoc and sets of a toxic reaction.

If a person has porcelain with aluminium oxide and doesn't have mixed metals in their mouth, they would be unlikely to have a problem from what I heard from Walter Clifford who runs the serum compatibility testing in USA and is aware of dental materials and what is contained.

He told me that metals are even contained in denture acrylic and the question to ask is, not if they contain metals, but what form the metals are in and to make sure when you get dental materials, not to get different ones in the same mouth to start of different chemical reactions. He seems to feel that is the danger.

So I have NO idea anymore. I did come across a material that a lot of biocompatible dentists are taking on which is called unshaded Dicor (I think it's a "metal free" porcelain and doesn't contain aluminium) but it's weaker and isn't as natural looking because the colour of it lacks the pigment of the other ones. So i'm looking at that one now.

Plastics also concern me for other reasons. So what is one to do? I would seriously prefer a restorative material that was GREEN if it would just be non toxic. I honestly don't care about how it looks in my molars, I don't want around with my mouth wide open and I just wish they would stop focussing on the perfect looking material because I'm sure they put more toxic stuff into get it to look like that, so they get paid for people wanting the ideal "smile".

anyway, I'm just stumped basically, but do appreciate your response about the porcelain, but I'm sure you can see that sometimes the aluminium oxide is not to blame, but "could" be the direct galvanic effect from it working with the amalgam in your mouth.

However, what you said still concerns me a lot. I just do not know what to do.

thanks anyway and I wish there were answers for all of us. It's just incredible.

take care and God bless