O/T Re: please answer- what about amalgam stains under fillings??

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When I had my amalgams removed the dentist told me that some stains

just simply cannot be removed. On one of the crowns I had removed the

tooth was black with bacteria. I think they said they treated it with

Chlorine to kill the bacteria. I do know that the website of the

biological dentist showed many, many before and after photos and one of

the captions said that not all stains can be removed, however, it looks

like, according to the pictures and my own experience, he got 98% of

it. Hope this helps...

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> I have seen this before. Often it is black underneath old amalgams

even after being scraped clean. It is either metal residue, or it is

clostridium bacteria that has stained it. This bacteria stains the

tooth black (even if it is not a current infection), meaning you could

have had a low grade infection there for years and it stained it black

over time, like a mould on your bathroom cement.

> When you look at the ridge of a metal crown you can usually see a

dark black line surrounding an old crown. This is clostridium staining.

> Dean

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