I have told a few people, but I know that most don't believe me. I think it's because they don't want to - it scares them as they have fillings themselves.

These days I tend to say I am "allergic" to the mercury in fillings and so have health problems as a result, but apart from people I have met here, I am dealing with this alone. It's an absolute attrocity that a medical system can do this to people and then not help them, but the tide is changing. Very few dentists around here now use mercury - I can't actually think of one at the moment - so I do think that eventually mercury in dentistry will be obsolete and future generations will listen incredulously when they are told dentists put mercury in our teeth.

I too want to spread the word, and for me it's trying to find the right time to bring it up - that has got to be part of the success, in getting the message across, I think - choosing the right moment to speak of it and choosing the right words. It's something I am working on improving for the future.