barbaral@tekig1.UUCP (Barbara Lee) (03/07/84)
I'm home with the flu. To keep myself amused, I've been watching a lot of non-soap opera TV. I saw an interested short clip on one of those talkshows like the Today show. It was about how there is mercury in our silver tooth fillings. Originally, it was believed that this mercury was inert, once it was packed away in our tooth. But now they are finding that the fillings give off mercury fumes, in levels higher than the state's safety levels for mercury in work places! They are finding that some people have a severe allergy to this mercury coming out of their fillings. They showed two extreme cases of women, one of whom had bad headaches, and could hardly walk. After taking out her 20 fillings, she was fine. Does anyone know more about this?