can mercury fillings kill you?!


Question: Can mercury fillings kill you?
can mercury fillings in your teeth kill you?

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No it is totally inactive the type used in fillings.



Not at all
patient should know that filling material is not totally mercury but
amalgam.
it is the composition of silver ,
high copper alloy ,
low copper alloy ,
tin ,
zinc.

It has bacteriostatic effect.

Neelabha krishnan
B.D.S.(Final year)
B.I.D.S.H.



No and if it could, there would be an awful lot of dead people in the world. The mercury is converted into a non poisonous state when combined with all the other ingredients used to make an amalgam filling.

DDS



No way.My dentist explained that you would have to grind them together with force constantly to release mercury from them.




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