mercury
...bstances and use new, safer products. Mercury can get into the body through your skin if you touch it, or if you breathe in its vapors. But mercury from amalgams come off the filling when you brush your teeth or when you chew gum. This could cause major health risks. So why is amalgam used? It is the cheapest, most durable material available. But I would not care how “durable” it is if it is going to poison me. And, lets face it, dentist are only human. They probably don’t want to admit to being wrong, especially if they have been doing it wrong for 150 years now. And using any other kind of product would mean having some type of training. And, what about the legal issues? Can you say major lawsuit? That could play a part in there unwillingness to concede anything. Dentist Murray Vimy (University of Calgary, Alberta) put silver amalgam fillings in the mouths of six sheep. Every one of them showed at least some type of kidney dysfunction after 30 days. “The average loss of kidney function was 50%,” said Vimy. That does not sound like anything I would want to have in my mouth. Other studies have shown that people who have silver fillings have three times as much mercury in their brains and nine times as much in their kidneys. Studies have also shown that no level of mercury exposure is safe. And I would think that to have that much exposure would be dangerous for sure. ...