I hear ya Bex!

heavymetalme, That is interesting! I 've read that amalgam fillings are over 50% mercury mixed with other metals. Dentists argue that-- yes there is mercury in them but it isn't harmful when it is hardened-- it is only dangerous in liquid form.

They never bothered to research further about how methyl mercury is also dangerous as it slowly emits from hardened tooth filings and gradually- over time-- leaks into the jaw and sinus cavities, and other tissues in the body.

Dentists don't want to lose their licenses so they blindly go along with what the ADA requires of them and they rationalize that all the mercury filling hype" is just conspiracy theory nonsense, and if it were that toxic, people would be dying by the bucket-loads.

They don't stop to think that maybe the mercury poisoning from metal fillings is a slow enough poisoning to cause health symptoms that slowly break the body down and destroy it's immune system, but not enough to cause instant overnight death. With each person, the symptoms are different--- depending on their genetic weaknesses.

For some people, they develop degenerative diseases like MS or Chrohn's disease, For some , it is merely headaches and dizzy spells. For some it is eventual Alzheimer's disease. For others it is muscle spasms and heart palpitations. For all , it is slow mercury poisoning.

Grinding through chewing food or bruxism, having your teeth cleaned, eating or drinking acidic foods or drinking hot drinks, etc, actually encourage more methyl mercury vapor to emit than ever.

In Hal Huggin's book, "It's all in your Head", you can see a photograph of methyl mercury still evaporating out of 50 year old fillings taken from a dead person. It can be seen via black light photography.

Many dentists also argue that after so many years, old metal filings "outgas" mercury and are benign. That is also false.

Mercury is not only on the outer layers of a metal filling but is mixed thoroughly to bind the other metals-- so there is just as much mercury on the outer section of a metal filling as there is throughout the entire thickness of that filling. Grinding and normal abrasion that takes place only emits fresh methyl mercury vapor to more vigorously come out of the fillings.