speaker@ttidca.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) (11/23/85)
[Eat this, you modifiyer!] Question: Is the mercury being absorbed from the surface of the tooth or through the dentin? If only the former, would resurfacing the tooth via "bonding" prevent the mercury from being absorbed? If not, the only alternative is removal of the silver amalgam and re-filling with another substance. What would be the substance of choice? Anyone know what might be considered an acceptible number of fillings to have? I have a mouth full of them courtesy of an incompetent dentist who was filling agitation marks on the X-rays! I had four teeth filled before I got suspicious (I had only had 2 caries until age 30, when I moved and lo!, I had a mouth full of them....) --Kne