"Rich Shewmaker" <[email hidden]> posted: 107 08-08-03 03:10 Ri> thus poorer health. If silver amalgams were as harmful as Jan likes to Ri> exclaim, there would be a lot more patients showing up with mercury Ri> poisoning symptoms (which are well defined). I've never seen a mercury Ri> poisoning case in twenty-five years of practice. Millions and millions Ri> of healthy people have amalgam fillings. They aren't dangerous.
But still silver fillings is old technology. The newer dentists are using white composite fillings.
Who, in today's world, wants to smile and expose their pearly whites with silver covered fillings for all to see?
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"George Lagergren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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"Rich Shewmaker" <[email hidden]> posted: 107 08-08-03 03:10 Ri> thus poorer health. If silver amalgams were as harmful as Jan likes to Ri> exclaim, there would be a lot more patients showing up with mercury Ri> poisoning symptoms (which are well defined). I've never seen a mercury Ri> poisoning case in twenty-five years of practice. Millions and millions Ri> of healthy people have amalgam fillings. They aren't dangerous.
But still silver fillings is old technology. The newer dentists are using white composite fillings.
Who, in today's world, wants to smile and expose their pearly whites with silver covered fillings for all to see?
You are talking cosmetics not health here. Dentists have been using color matched restoration materials on the front visible surfaces of teeth for many, many years. The fact remains that if amalgams released toxic levels of mercury into the body, mercury poisoning would be VERY common. Actually, the disease is rare and is nearly always associated with industrial exposure, consumption of mercury bearing fish, or use of mercury in occult religious practices.
