[quote]Professor X wrote:
You are relating a dental infection to amalgam fillings?
This is worse than comparing marijuana to heroin and cocaine.
You are right about how the body deals with dental infections. However, the relation here to the process of filling a tooth is ridiculous.
This is like relying on scare tactic sites on aspartame for your knowledge of it.
It might be best to actually ask a professional who actually DOES those types of fillings or has in the past. That would erase the idea that mercury is just being lodged into teeth.
Amalgam is a combination of materials that allow the doctor to manipulate it for a short time as they pack it into the tooth prep before it begins to harden.
It is that stage that most of the mercury is pushed OUT of the tooth and suctioned. That is why it is easy to manipulate as the tooth is being filled. Otherwise, there would be no way to actually fill the tooth efficiently. After that, the filling begins to harden, meeting its initial set in about 5-10min (or less).
Again, there were NO effective LASTING alternatives until relatively recently.
Beyond that, none of this erases the fact that oral hygiene of the patient is the greatest importance in the first place.
I can’t even tell you the number of patients who get decay underneath old fillings and blame the previous dentist for it…as if the last 10 years it was in their mouth, their lack of brushing had nothing to do with it.[/quote]
He said that your teeth have nothing to do with your demise/health which is why I went to infections not drawing a direct correlation that amalgams = infection.
I personally work with a network of dentists around the country that are using more cutting edge techniques and looking for the best ways to do dental work with regards to overall human health. If you want to PM me I can shoot you some PDFs of our stuff to take a look at. I would never claim to have the knowledge of a dentist but if you met me in person you would most likely be pleasantly surprised at my knowledge level for a non-practitioner.
No argument about the mercury being pushed out of the tooth. My argument (and many others) is that is being pushed into the body and hurting a lot of people.