Ian
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Hi August,
I had about 5-6 metal crowns removed after I had all my amalgams removed. I noticed more significant improvement after the metal crown removal (and the amalgam underneath most of them) than I did after completing the removal of about 12 amalgams. My partner mentioned several times in the following weeks after this crown removal that my brain was functioning so much better.
I might just mention also that when I had my amalgams removed, there was decay underneath almost all of them. I can see where if that decay had not been cleaned out at the same time, a number of these teeth could have eventually necessitated some very expensive crown and/or root canal and/or bridge procedures.
Best, Wayne
Yeah because amalgam isn't chemically bonded to teeth you can get decay under them. My dad has his removed and a few had decay .. under them. Amalgam also has a different thermal diffusion coefficient, which means it transmits heat a lot faster than the surrounding tooth structure. So repeated foods or hot drinks of different temperatures can cause the amalgam to expand at a faster rate then the tooth causing cracking of the tooth itself. It's a really stupid material to still be using. It comes from an age of medicine where people were routinely bleed to let diseases out.
Dentists sometimes used amalgam in the root tips when doing root canal. So instead of breathing in the mercury vapour 24/7, it just leaks out the end of the tooth and goes directly into your blood stream. The only way you can find out if you have amalgam at the end or the root is to see an x-ray ;p