Hi Scarlet, regarding aluminium oxide, I thought this was a safe form of aluminium? i was told this by the man who runs the blood serum testing lab for dental materials.

This is what he said to me in an email:

As to aluminum, we get really excited about certain forms of aluminum. If the only forms of aluminum present are aluminum oxide, alumina or aluminosilicate, we will totally ignore the aluminum unless the patient also has a silicate sensitivity. To become toxic and bio-available, aluminum must be ionized. The forms of aluminum compounds mentioned above have a dissociation half-life between 109 and 1011 years under expected oral cavity conditions. In simple terms, there will not be enough dissociated aluminum from restoratives to measure in a lifetime. It is true that you can physically break off micro-fines of the restorative, but these are small bits of intact compound and not dissociated aluminum. They will void in the next bowel movement or two. To put this into proper perspective, your skeleton is composed of 2.0% – 2.5% aluminum oxide and aluminosilicate, normally and naturally. There is more aluminosilicate in a single side serving of fresh garden salad containing lettuces and vegetables than will be released from a mouth full of ceramic or porcelain crowns in a normal lifetime. The plants pick up the aluminosilicates from the soil readily and incorporate them into their tissues.

Could you let me know where you got your information? Because I am very concerned here and I am sick of the conflicting stuff with these health professionals. None of them can seem to get it straight.