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Great idea for a thread.

I got a couple of crowns in. Does the metal at the base of the crown (where it attaches the tooth base) leach at all? Maybe noone knows cos maybe that has not been studied. ie, does this metal get in your system through slow long term leaching of the metals used?

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This has been studied ad nauseum, there were a series of what have been termed the "amalgam wars", basically the current opinion based on numerous studies is that the mercury leaking from an amalgam would be the only really dangerous thing from the restorations and that it is very minor.

-JP