but get this, when he was drilling out my old composites, he discovered amalgam had been left under the top ones. Great eh? All those years of detoxing and I still had mercury in my mouth. He said that often dentists do not like to drill too deep, so often they will leave some of the amalgam there and simply cover over it. This is dishonest and I think pretty disgusting when you consider that you go in and ask to have all the amalgam out for health reasons and you are basically lied to. I have also read that often people will not recover or recover properly unless every scrap of amalgam has been removed. So yeah that was quite a surprise to find out I still had some. Even a panoramic xray didn't show them up properly.