Dental silver removal?

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RunswithScissors
RunswithScissors Member Posts: 323
edited June 2014 in Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment

My new dentist suggested I replace all the silver fillings in my molars. It's odd to hear this after

years of begging other dentists to do it with no luck. 

Have you  done this?  Have you experienced resistance from dentists? 

Did you get heavy metal testing before/after? 

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  • LJ13-2
    LJ13-2 Member Posts: 235
    edited October 2009

    Cha-ching.

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  • vivre
    vivre Member Posts: 2,167
    edited October 2009

    Pill, I have read a lot about this, and there is a lot of merit to the whole mercury toxicity from these fillings. However, I did speak to a holistic dentist whom I really admire and she told me that taking these out could cause more problems than leaving them in. She said that as long as the filllings are inert and solid they are causing less of a problem than when they are vaporized or liquid and could enter the blood stream during the removal process. So she advised against it. Do you know they wear hasmat suits when they take this stuff out. She did tell me however, to beware of all the flouride other dentists use and to try to use toothpaste without it.

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  • PeterS
    PeterS Member Posts: 1
    edited November 2009

    As far as I know according to the latest findings amalagam fillings are harmful, because mercury is leaching every day even if the filling is in a good condition. My dentist recommended to take all of them out. I have also seen a Swedish study about amalgam fillings, which pointed out that people with these fillings have 9 times more mercury in their kidneys and 3 times more in their brains, so I did not hesitate to change all of them. I have not heard that dentists would need to do this in hazmat suit, though.

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  • deni63
    deni63 Member Posts: 601
    edited November 2009

    Dentists are supposed to take some precautions when they remove amalgams - for your protection as well as for their own. They should wear mouth/nose masks and put a "well" in your mouth to catch everything that they are drilling out. You should not swallow the mercury when it is removed. Also, it is effective to do some IV chelation therapy while they remove the fillings so that you can begin to chelate it out of your system. I have tested high for mercury and will have my fillings removed shortly. In the meantime, I take chlorella as it helps to chelate mercury out of your system as well. Since I began the chlorella, my mercury levels have dropped a bit. Apparently it can take up to 4 years to completey chelate mercury out of your system.

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  • childrendentist
    childrendentist Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2010
    As a children dentist, I find there are certain situations where I have to use dental amalgam. I do not believe in removing amalgams for any other reason than esthetics. Removal of amalgam can pose problems as the mercury vapour is release during amalgam removal.
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  • Nedeza
    Nedeza Member Posts: 666
    edited January 2010

    As a dental hygienist...amalgam fillings do not cause harm...the harm is in removing them...just for esthetic reasons.  Mercury in it's liquid state is obviously harmful.  In amalgam fillings they are in a solid state mixed with other metals.  The process of removing them are more harmful because it involves "drilling" them out which is essentially pulverizing  & vaporizing the mercury within the amalgam.  There is no reason in removing amalgam fillings unless they are breaking down or there is recurrent decay. I have been in the dental industry for 30 years & it is unfortunate that some dentists take advantage of the situation...such as suggesting to replace ALL amalgams & sometimes misleading the public.

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  • Bless
    Bless Member Posts: 141
    edited February 2010

    I did have all of mine replaced with composite a couple of years ago.  Many had additional decay and needed doing.  But I recently read an article that said that some (not all) but some composite fillings contain BPA.  It is enough to make you nuts!  I'm not really looking forward to asking my dentist if the composite that he uses has BPA in it...

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