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Should you remove your mercury dental fillings? A homeopathic viewpoint would be to establish health in your body first and then notice if a recurring group of symptoms provided the evidence that your eroding amalgams were creating a chronic illness for you. If the indications led you to believe that the continued exposure to some substance, in this case the amalgam, led to some pathology, you would want to decrease that exposure.
In my personal experience I've had the opportunity to replace my old cracking amalgams with resin fillings. It was my dentist's recommendation to replace them but she let me choose the filling type. I’ve found that there was little health difference immediately. I have seen the most health benefits from working with the presenting symptoms as is customary in classical practice instead of placing blame on the toxins in your teeth and only ever experienced true symptoms for about two days after the dental drilling from the mercury vapor. The ADA strongly recommends not removing your amalgam fillings but I think they go overboard in supporting their side.
California introduced legislation in 200 associated with their proposition 65 concerning toxic chemicals that requires dentists to post warnings if they use amalgams after February of 2001. The word mercury was not allowed on the warnings. Dr. Eugene Sambataro, D.D.S. from Maryland has an informative page on the law and dentistry that concerns the warning.
Dr. Hal Huggins of Colorado, Springs, CO, is the father of the anti-mercury in dentistry movement in this country. Although he was stripped of his license in May of 1996, he still runs his diagnostic center there. His writings illustrate that mercury migrates from your fillings in the form of vapor. You can find lots of web sites on him and the general subject of mercury poisoning.
These are taken from a course syllabus on synthetic replacement materials for the body at Cornell dispelling the myth that no one teaches about amalgam risk.
