When I went to Dr. Perry for a filling, he told me I could get an amalgam or a white filling. I asked what they are made of.
Dr. Perry told me his dental amalgam was an alloy of silver, tin, copper, zinc, and small amounts of other metals. I decided that sounded safe, I said I'll get that one.
My jaw locked up less than two weeks later and I asked him if this could be related somehow to the filling. He said he'd never heard of such a thing before. I thought, how strange - never?
Well, I did a little research online and it was a well known reaction to the 50% mercury content of the amalgam that he put in my mouth. Mercury he just decided NOT to tell me about. Is what he did legal? It shouldn't be.
The downside was I couldn't bite down all the way for a year and spent thousands of dollars removing this and some older mercury fillings. The upside is my jaw healed and so did a long list of ailments I had begun to suffer from, and my eyes are now open to how the dental and medical industry operates.
out of 5 stars
