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Originally Posted by Redlemon
Very interesting, I hadn't heard that before. Perhaps a better analogy: sodium explodes in contact with water. Chlorine is a poisonous gas. Table salt is sodium chloride. Salt will not explode in water, or create toxic gsaes.
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That's the analogy my dentist uses. Minor point: Dental amalgams give off a very minor amount of mercury vapor after you chew, but it's much less than the amount of mercury in a fish dinner, and it's not methyl mercury, the bad kind.
No matter what kind of scare stories are out there, out of hundreds of studies, no one has ever proved a link between amalgam and a health problem (well, there might be a few people sensitive to it, but that's it).
You can always get white or gold fillings anyway. They're just more expensive.