You may have seen me post yesterday that a piece of my amalgam filling fell out. Well I did some research and found that the general advice from the BDA is not to remove or do amalgam fillings in pregnant women due to potential risks from mercury causing harm to the baby.
So I went to a dentist today who looked at my tooth (which doesn't hurt) and he immediately recommended removing and replacing the whole filling, which is massive (I do brush my teeth but grind my teeth at back!). Removing fillings is the worst thing to do as it produces the most mercury contamination as they drill it out with a burr drill in fragments.
I said to him that i didnt think that was recommended in pregnant women and he said 'really? What about if I use suction?' I said I didn't think so and he said 'hmm maybe not as it would spread amalgam around your mouth.' Am I being unreasonable to think dentists should know this stuff!! If I hadn't have looked it up it would have been done!
Anyway he ended up doing a white filling on top temporarily and told me not to eat toffee....
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MissTwister · 18/06/2015 10:05
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