My aunt's fake tooth/bridge work is not gold, white something or other, done in the early 1950's.

I don't think anyone would argue that mercury contributes to jaw problems of all sorts. can even cause fake toothaches from my experience... make the gum tissue hurt, chelation of all things has me me a lot there... but I don't know where Jill gets the idea that pulling teeth cause bone detoriation... maybe if the tooth had an abcess but pulling the tooth didn't cause the deterioration in those cases the abcess did...

Jill, maybe you should take a survey like I did... go around and ask people over age 50-60 if they have lost any teeth (most have given up a few), then ask if they miss those teeth, and then compare their health to the health of someone in the same age bracket with root canals or lots of crowns/bridgework.

The only problem with that survey is that you won't find many past age 65 with root canals or lots of other types of dental work, they are all either too sick to be up and about or dead.

So you are left with the happy and mainly healthy ones who have gievn up a few teeth... and who don't even know what the words cavitation or TMJ mean.

I actually did that for a while, that little personal survey of older folks, it's how I found out about my aunt's fake tooth, I had never previously noticed they weren't real. Her front teeth btw.