Ive recently been told that little pieces of mercury fillings wear off and are ingested -- and can cause diseases like cancer!!!

has anyone ever heard anything like this???

Im getting white fillings for now on anyways!!!

Hi there!
The opinions on the "silver" (amalgam) fillings are divided. From my research I have decided I wouldn't want them in mouth anymore and had them removed last year, I'd rather be safe than sorry!

Health professionals are divided over this, but one thing to remember is that it is believed a mercury filling poses most danger when actually being drilled out. So, I would get white fillings from now on, but I wouldn't want to get any old mercury ones removed. That's just my opinion of course, and I'm not a dentist!

My girlfriends sister had mercury fillings a couple of years ago...and to answer you question..shes in a wheel chair and just had surgery on her brain to relieve some pressure that was causing her speech to be incoherent(sp) and walking ablilities to be limited shes improving everyday....so to answer that question...yes...it is very dangerous

I haven't written in a while on this boards. I had my mercury fillings removed about 13 years ago. My headaches never came back, and slowly my muscle pains and other serious problems went away. Recently this summer some of these muscle pains came back again, so I experimented with fresh garlic, and they went away again. Since so many medical and dental professionals don't understand this completely (at least for me over 10 years ago), I've had to resort to my own experimentation. The fresh garlic is supposed to make the mercury water soluble and help eliminate it from the body (at least that's what I remember reading about it.)

Now, more people are recognizing the dangers of mercury from many sources. It was so hard for me, when no-one could understand the misery that I endured. I'm so glad that I got white porcelain fillings, and my life has been restored. It was my own decision to get rid of these poisons. I feel so sorry for others that have had to suffer like this, while scientists still try to answer questions about mercury toxicity.

I wonder, can't they test you for mercury levels and see If your fillings are causing too high of a level?

There is only a slight increase in mercury exposure when fillings are removed and this increase only lasts a short time . Then your mercury exposure falls dramaticly .

peices areunlikely to break off. Mercury is highly volatile and vaporizes off fillings continuously in highly toxic amounts,especially upun chewing.

Mercury is a poison and if you have mercury fillings the elemental mercury gets into your bloodstream on a daily basis and can cause many adverse reactions if your sensative to the poison. The more fillings you have the more you are being poisoned. Why would anyone take the chance and expose themselves to a daily dose of poison? It only makes sense to a dentist that it is ok to poison you with a neurotoxic heavy metal. Any dentist that says it is ok is a propaganda minister for the ADA and their big tobacco politics to maintain their industry and keep dentists across the nation from being sued. Always remember, It's dental care NOT health care.

Dear Boston,

I am convinced that mercury is a very bad thing. I am following Dr Hulda Clark's program and feel so much the better for it. I would get rid of the porcelain, as well; it contains aluminum, which has been linked to dimentia. She recommends wearing no metals in the mouth.

Once removing the metal fillings, you can cleanse residue from the body with cilantro. Good luck!

Wow, not a bit of science in any of the responses, although I do like Rhody's case. Mercury in fillings is safe, you'll ingest more mercury from a can of tuna than you will in a mouth full of fillings, and think about this - before the use of gloves in dentistry( early 80's in the US) dentists would mix amalgam with - get this - their bare hands, mercury and all. Can't find one instance of these dentists getting sick from that level of mercury exposure.