Re: Big filling fell out...

I replaced the fallen fillings with nothing, yet, 89866.

I have been simply keeping them free of bits of food...mostly with my tongue and some rinsing.

I see no sign of decay or infection. Could that be that my immune systems are working well?


Someone mentioned that the combination of saliva meeting our exhaled breaths causes cavities to fill in/heal. Wouldn't that be grand?!

There are a number of comments on CureZone that speak hopefully of, at least, preserving the remaining teeth we have.

...Not the least of these being the Oil Pulling forum. It seems that organic cold-pressed sesame seed oil is favored there.

Though I haven't read much in that forum, I reason that some of the bacteria/growth in our mouths may be broken down more easily by oils than water. That possibility gives me hope.

Some of the things I have done may seem odd to many, but, like my general overall health, things are getting better and better.


I used to think that gold was an excellent substitute for mercury amalgam. What I saw in the dental supply house where I worked as a young person, was gold crowns. These were something like empty bullet shells...to fit over the cleaned remains of broken teeth, possibly after a root canal was performed.

I never did notice gold amalgam, though I suppose it was there. I guess it was the cost that made it less popular.

I did see one funny thing, though...one dentist had sent in a little vial of broken teeth and fillings that contained gold. It sat on a shelf for a number of weeks.

I suppose he was thinking the gold could be recovered by some form of smelting. This was many years before I met a man traveling for his family's precious metal recovery firm.

He would call on dentists (and others?), buying the remains of x-rays (silver) and goldwork, or anything else that was valuable and could be reclaimed. (Some people even have diamonds set in their teeth!)

As you can see, I know very little about dentistry, and so on...but I have this memory that links bits of information, and jumps to far flung conclusions and ideas.

You know what I had when I was eighteen that was of immense value? I had a mouthful of lovely white teeth that had never had a cavity. They used to put me in the new dental chairs when demonstrating their use to young dentists fresh out of college.

But I blabbed that I had been allergic to cow's milk as an infant, and that, consequently, I was not and never had been a milk-drinker.

I laugh about that now. My days as a model in dental chairs were numbered...and I had no idea why. Nor did my employers offer me a raise in pay for the extra activity. Hah!

Not so many years ago, when asking the price of a full replacement of all mercury amalgams...the annoyed dentist (who was otherwise a friendly and nice guy), blurted out that there WAS no suitable replacement filling.

I don't think he realized the enormity of what he had said.

His assistant immediately added that dentists were between a rock and a hard place.

An understatement if I ever heard one.

Very quietly dental supply manufacturers have been developing newer replacement materials, I suppose...and better and better procedures for the switch.

...I hope.

How intimately these things affect us!

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