Posted January 23rd, 2007 in Dentist

Thankfully, my cold seems to be past its worst and my breath has gone bad to being bad/stale! I suppose that’s good news!

Well, had to go to the dentist for my regular 6 month check up this morning. And I need to have one of my fillings replaced. So much for boasting that I never need any dental work done!

I’ve decided to have a white amalgum rather than the usual mercury filling.

I’ve been doing some reading on mercury fillings and it seems that the mercury slowly leaches out of the fillings over time, and your body has no way of getting rid of the heavy metals - doesn’t sound good to me!

Does anybody know:

  • is more mercury released during the removal of the old filling?
  • is there anything I can take, perhaps vitamins, to help to detox any mercury out of my system?

I’ll let you know how I get on

k

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Comment by samantha

Posted on January 25th, 2007

Being a layman it’s quite difficult to say that how much you’ll suffer with the side effects of mercury. I don’t think any vitamin could do much to detoxify the heavy metals like mercury. But still you need to keep faith on your doctor. He/she will never misguide you. Ask your doctor before going through the process. Don’t worry. Everything will be alright.