Hi Dawn,

Your position is very difficult, like myself you get sick just from entering a dental office. You trust your Mother In Law and she did not stand in the way of the amalgam replacement. She should have on your behalf! even if she doesn't agree with it. This is not her child.

At any rate, I hope your daughter's tooth can be saved. Porcelain is an expensive but excellent material for deep cavities. My tooth, that was probably going to require root canal, wound up being "ok" (so far).

Some dentists will tell you "oh I think you'll need a root canal" but this is not always the case.

I had cerec put in and so far it's worked out really well. Hopefully I will not need any dental rework for much of the rest of my life. Saves further drilling, further trauma too! I don't eat hard food as much on that side if I can help it, it just allows that tooth a rest. If I eat too much hard stuff on that side, sometimes it can start to niggle a bit.

Anyway, best of luck with your daughter and with the Mother in law re the mercury information. If she wants to block her ears to it? So be it. Clearly she is a mess of physical complaints herself, but so often they try and excuse them as "normal".