Wow!!!! Are they doing them all at once? I'm just amazed that a dentist could be so totally careless to remove them without protection, even a general dentist.

I mean COME ON. They may want to rave on about how safe they are as an amalgam, but they know full well that the stuff still has to be carefull disgarded. Why would even a general dentist drill that stuff out and not put full protection on?

Anyway, I am hoping that somehow she will turn out ok. It does not sound good, but here is hoping.

If it is any consolation, I got my top teeth done by a general dentist. No protection, just suction. I was ok. Dont recall any major bad happenings, though I was on a good diet and wasn't as ill then as I am now with any viral infection etc.

Yet I got very ill after the biologic dentist did my last few from swallowing the mercury during the last removal.

So it's very hard to say what will happen to each person. I was younger and stronger then, and I hate to imagine what I would like as I am now.

HEre's hoping that your sister will somehow come through this. This is just not wise for her to do this. Can she do just a few at onetime if she MUST do it with a general dentist??? Like 2? This onetime exposure, if she gets ten done at once could finish her. I hope not.