Hi Jamie. I'm in the UK and sadly I don't trust the medical professionals on anything. I talked to my doctor about the possibility of mercury poisoning and while she didn't say I didn't have it, neither did she say I could. I got no answers from the BDA or the BDHF, except the official line that amalgam doesn't poison and that if I have too much mercury I got it from fish - to which I answered I'm a vegetarian and don't eat it, to which they had no reply.

I'm not sure what words of comfort I can give except that you're not alone, and that it's okay to be part of a minority opinion. One day everyone will know that amalgam is poisonous. The future will validate us. People are just very reluctant to believe anything different to what they have been told, what makes them feel uncomfortable, or frightens them in some way. Getting someone to see a different point of view on almost anything is impossible. Sadly, I've learnt that most of the time they have to learn the hard way.

But I do believe that amalgam causes health problems, and I believe there are thousands suffering with chronic mercury poisoning, but the medical professionals just don't accept it for various reasons.

It's okay to question the opinion of professionals because there are professionals who question the opinions of others. It's okay to questions professionals on moral grounds aswell i.e. how they are so sure it's not a baby in the womb at 5 months that it's okay to kill it as an inconvenience. I've long been pro-life, so well familar with being in the minority and disagreeing with medical practioners on something.

It's too bad that you were de-registered, but look at it this way - do you want to be in the hands of dentists who are ignorant and contiuing to poison people? If I have any choice, I'm never going back to an NHS dentist. I don't trust them at all. I'm trying to advise my family and friends to go private, but most of them are reluctant to accept that amalgam is poisonous.

It's terrible that dentists have made us sick and now won't help us, but we can help ourselves by educating ourselves and not being forced into an opinion by anyone, just because they can flash qualifications before their name. Being a doctor or a dentist means nothing except that they got through college. And, I know that on my course there were people who got their degree who virtually partied their way through university. It's not hard to learn what you're told and repeat it if you have any reasonable amount of intelligence. I could have gone as a doctor, but I wasn't interested in doing so. That doesn't mean I don't have the intelligence to look at something and come to a different conclusion to doctors. Anyone with any ounce of intelligence must surely be able to see that putting a potent neuro toxin in peoples teeth is insane.