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Subject: Mercury poisoning from dental fillings?
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Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 05:59:32 EDT
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A friend of mine mentioned that he had heard something about the old
mercury/silver amalgam dental fillings causing low-level mercury poisoning.
Does anyone out there know if this is true?  Have there been studies to
corroborate this?  What are the varieties of symptoms from mercury poisoning?
I understand that neurological and kidney damage can occur from high
exposures to mercury, but what about at low-levels?

Anyway, if you have any info on mercury poisoning, particularly via dental
fillings, please send me mail.  Thanks.


					Jim Collymore