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

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Thanks for responding, . I guess it's unavoidable -- maybe i'm just

being over-zealous. No way one could have amalgam fillings for 30 years and

not see staining, i suppose...

It would be nice if someone could pick Andy's brain about this one.

thanks again,

NJ

what about amalgam stains under

> fillings??

>

>

>

> Hi,

> I asked this question awhile back and didn't get a response. Please

if you

> know anything about this, or have experienced it, please let me know.

>

> I've noticed that in each of the quadrants where amalgam has been

removed,

> the teeth have dark staining underneath where the amalgams were --

not on

> the gums or anything but in the drilled-out part of the tooth. I see

this in

> the bathroom mirror after the amalgams are out, on a break while

they switch

> me out of the amalgam room.

>

> I know some of this comes out in the next session, with further

drilling for

> cavities, and he also uses a procedure where he puts some wadding in the

> teeth with some chelating agent on it, and uses a laser on it to draw it

> out. But I know, and he acknowledges, that there is staining left there

> which cannot be removed.

>

> I've asked my dentist about it , and he says that the stains, which

> seem to be rather deeply embedded in the tooth (after 30+ years!)

canleech

> material into the system and so he does the chelating step described

above.

>

> But there is just so much he can do, it seems, as there is still (what

> seems to me) some definite staining, which will be there under any

> restorations. He says that they can't really grind all the amalgam stain

> away, because the staining goes into the tooth and drilling it all would

> go into the pulp and kill the tooth. I seem to be stuck with it for

life.

>

> Have any of you all noticed this issue when your amalgams were removed ?

> Surely I can't be the only one. Has your chelating program gone well? It

> seems that most people who've had amalgams in this long would have

> encountered this happening, the discoloration. This office I go to

is very

> good, quite thorough, and openly anti-amalgam, so they must be doing

> everything they can short of removing half my teeth!

>

> Will this doom my efforts to chelate? Has anyone with this issue

chelated

> successfully?

>

> please tell,

> NJ

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