hello, everyone, this is a completely random peice of information but I thought I'd better post it.

I was at the dentist for my 6 month check up and she said that I needed a small filling. I said it had better not be a "silver" one after my feelings about mercury aka silver fillings and that I wanted a "white" /composite filling. I have a really nice dentist and although she rolls her eyes about the mercury thing was happy to give me a white filling.

Anyways, when I said to her about why on earth would I want a silver filling as it was handled as toxic waste when removed from your mouth in the dentists she said yes but all dental material is handled as toxic waste including swabs etc, and incidently did I know that people who had false nails put on i.e. acrylic nails and then were having "white" fillings were getting an allergic reaction to the white fillings. She did not tell me why this was or the order of it i.e I don't know if she meant if you have white fillings and then get false nails that this reaction can happen or vice versa, but she said that allergic reaction was happening in people. I don't wear acrylic nails but having said that I would NEVER have thought my nails would have affected my teeth - very strange. I think basically she was just saying that I am always going on about the dangers of silver/ mercury fillings but really composite fillings also come with problems too.

This may not be relevant to a lot of people but I thought I'd just post it!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />lizbet