The loss of a tooth, if it's your first loss, can be very traumatic. But you get over it, and then slap yourself silly later for putting up with the nasty thing for so long.

Certain things can be fixed successfully, and others unfortunately cannot. For myself, I prefer overall whole body good health, and when it comes to teeth, extracting known bad ones is a much safer bet than trying to fix a truly unfixable problem in various different ways.

If dentists actually used bio-compatible materials I would feel differently, but they don't. In a conversation once with a biological/holistic dentist, I said to her, 'Exactly what is so bio-compatible about methacrylate?' and she replied 'You've got me there'. Personally i think the 'bio-compatable' hype is simply that, mostly hype and rhetoric, and for that reason. Plastic dental materials, and the ensuing drilling/filling, can cause substantial problems just like amalgam can. It's just a matter of time. A very high percentage of people with methacrylate based bone implants develop sensitivity problems within 3-4 years of the implant for example. Methacrylate is used as a binder in most dental materials and extensively in adhesives. It's a clear sticky resin in it's most basic form.

Plastic sensitivities can also mimick mercury sensitivities btw, because plastics also affect your nervous system among other things. They are all highly carcinogenic. Personally, because I have known plastic sensitivity issues, I also feel that mercury is even easier to deal with than those. Irregardless of what manufacturers claim, there is lots of research that shows plastics are not completely inert. Plastics are somewhat biodegradable, they just take a long time to decompose. I can chelate, bind and flush out heavy metals but I (and my very experienced doctor) have absolutely no idea how to bind and flush plastics. EDTA may help, flax may also help. Your body naturally breaks down ingested substances into their basic chemical components in the (sometimes skewed) attempt to benefit from them as nutrients.

Just something to think about.