Thanks Russ, it is great to have that awful taste gone. That is the one thing I can definitively attribute to the mercury filling. The rest is a shot in the dark, but even if that wasn't the root cause, it certainly can't be beneficial to any health issues a person already has.

The one thing I noticed late this afternoon was that the sole of my one foot itched like crazy, and so did one spot on my chin. I wonder if it had anything to do with my visit to the steam sauna last night and any mercury that may have been sweated out. It's been a couple of years since I've been in a steam sauna but I never had that experience. (I showered immediately after the sauna.)