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Jun
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Do Mercury Amalgam Fillings Cause Chronic Illness?
As part of some research I was doing for my degree lately I had to address the issue of mercury fillings and their potential to cause ill-health. Having no fillings myself this is not a subject I have looked at in any real detail before, but I know it may be a major concern to many of you.
The literature I came across was certainly conflicting. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a news release acknowledging study findings from the 1970s and 80s demonstrating that amalgam fillings are continuously giving off mercury vapour...which of course the unlucky individual with the fillings then inhales. Until this time it was thought that exposure only occured during the initial installation of the fillings and that after that the mercury was stable.
The news release raises the possibility that the mercury vapour given off by fillings could cause chronic mercury poisoning and some of...
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I had some large amalgam fillings removed by drilling about 5 years ago. When the dentist had finished I had black dust all over -
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I'm 27 years old, have three amalgam fillings in lower jaw. They were put in my mouth me being 10-17 years old, i cannot recall mo
