After having seen the posts that suggest mercury fillings are no big deal I
would like to draw to your attention a book by HAl Huggins called Its All In
Your Head, which details exactly how much mercury is ingested from chewing on
the fillings during each and every meal and the vapor that is breathed in with
each and every respiration. There is tons of literature now that links mercury
toxicity with a whole host of degenerative diseases. What boggles my mind is
how, in early dentistry, there were warnings about the use of mercury in
fillings with a shunning of any dentist who used them (because it was cheap
filling material), an attitude that has now been replacefd with the idea that
any dentist who with good intent and in good conscience, removes mercury
fillings because of the evidence to suppport such action.

In regards to breastfeeding, the issue of removal is that the mercury is
stored in the maternal tissue and will be releaased into plasma when all of
the fillings are removed. It has someting to to with blood saturation rates.
So blood levels will increase and stay high as the maternal tissue dumps the
stored mercury into serum. This obviously increases the amount of mercury that
may get into breastmilk and is the reason mercury levels in the blood are
carefully monitored post filling removal.

Alison K. Hazelbaker