Re: Ask the Dental student....Q\'s, fears, concerns, hopefully answered
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I want to sign up for these amalgam wars, but can't decide which side. What are the relative good and bad points about each side?
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Well, you can sign up for the evil activist side who believes that any kinda non natural stuff in your body is bad. They fear that the small amount of mercury used in dental amalgam materials (ie silver fillings, actually a mix of copper, silver, mercury and tin iirc), leaks out into your blood and causes mercury poisoning (signs of mercury poisoning make you kinda crazy).
The other side is the greedy dentists and dental researchers who dont want any kind of public health scare/scandal and want to keep living cushy lives.
Anyways, its been determined that the amount leaked into the saliva and blood and swallowed is small enough for your body to get rid of or handle.
-JP
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