I am not sure about the life of a filling or how long it releases mercury. I would not bet on there being a time limit personally, I would imagine that it releases mercury over a lifetime in vapors and how long that would take to wear down all the mercury present ....? Your guess is as good as mine.

But if you want to start healing and detoxing from what may have built up in your tissues and organs over that time, you need to get rid of any junk metals inside your mouth, even if it is very old amalgam which may or may not be releasing as much mercury.

For some reason the body does not tend to heal from this condition until all remaining amalgam has been completely removed first. It tends otherwise to remain as it is, kind of hindered by the continued presence of the amalgam or other junk toxic metal.

Diet also plays a big role in aiding healing and detoxing (reducing yeast levels and building health). And of course necessary and safe, tried and tested mercury chelation/detox protocol (Andrew Cutler is the best I know of so far).

I agree with Bg, I would NOT use any chelation whilst you still have amaglams. And certainly not chelating agents like cilantro or ALA, until you have first removed amalgams and reduced your blood/body levels of mercury. Cilantro and ALA can cross the blood brain barrier, which might be ok when you have no amalgam and have reduced the probable high blood/body levels, but not otherwise. Or it will likely take mercury from still high tissue/blood levels across the blood brain barrier with it.

I would go on a candida diet, take plenty of supportive antioxidant supplements like vitamin C, E and selenium, zinc etc have plenty of protein (eggs, meats) and good fats in my diet (butter, extra virgin olive oil, raw nuts, fish oil (low/no mercury) plenty of vegetables (excluding potatoes/corn/peas/beans due to high carbs/starch) and embark on a throrough and safe amalgam removal with a biologic dentist getting biocompatible dental replacement materials and then get into a safe chelating protocol (andrew culters). Starting probably with DMSA taken the frequent dose way to start reducing your blood/body/tissue levels first.

That's what I would do in your situation. I wish there was an easy quick way out of this, but there isn't. Rushing in without proper precautions can make a bad situation even worse.

Hal Huggins recommends a mercury toxic person to exclude sugar, caffeine, wheat/gluten and milk out of their diet and include the proteins and fats. For reasons he does not understand, he's not yet been able to cure a vegetarian. It appears that the body requires the fats and proteins to aid healing and many other functions. Milk and caffeine apparently hinder mercury excretion, whilst sugar and gluten no doubt do the same by feeding yeast and increasng toxicity in the gut and liver, hindering proper functioning and detox.

In my experience, diet is extremely important and Hal Huggins even said that not sticking to a proper diet can destroy more recoveries than anything else....