If you are like most people who have dental amalgams, you do not have a readily available summary of which fillings were inserted when with accompanying notes defining the size and extensiveness of surface exposure, location to placements of different materials, degree of expected bite loading, suggested replacement cost, and a proposed date for reconsideration of replacement. You may be unaware of the risks which mercury amalgams bring to the health of yourself and those around you.

I invite you to review the Research FACTS which I have gathered and consider my Personal EXAMPLE. What you don't know could kill you, or, make you wish you were dead.

Chronic illness prevention is possible IF you are aware.
Aging mercury amalgam dental fillings pose one of the greatest chronic illness health hazards of the late twentieth century. Their destructive and debilitating influence on the health of individuals and nations during the decade after 2000 may become inconceivable. Used with care, they can be effective dental appliances. This degree of care declines with declining standards of economic lifestyle.

For the past 20 years, the after tax and after necessities income of most North Americans has declined. Necessities are defined here as the cost of food, shelter, work-related expenses including clothing and transportation. Since 1995, economists have reported that the personal debt load servicing cost of 96% of North Americans ... exceeds their income. As a political issue, homelessness has been growing for 10 years ... with a particular growth in numbers during 1997 and 1998.

Modern personal dental health is tied to personal income.
Dental work, long only a consideration when symptoms of distress focused attention to it --- has seldom ever been considered from the facts of amalgam disintegration from age. Increasingly, and for many, dental replacement and refurbishing is a last priority for spending.

Despite an 8-year economic boom (1991-1999) in the USA, personal bankruptcy filings for the latter 3 years hit record highs. Researchers predicted that by 2002, the USA would experience a 43% increase to 2,000,000 personal bankruptcies a year. It takes money to declare bankruptcy. Millions more are too poor to do so. Inflation and fixed incomes together with severe budget reductions in healthcare and social services parallel increases in chronic illness ratios.

No one expects to become chronically ill.
It is not a favored or rewarded goal in life. It always strikes the ones who are confident that they will be spared. Only the aware and well-advised avoid chronic illness. Only those who have positive coping skills recover and survive.

Your choice of, treatment of, and maintenance of mercury amalgams or other dental fixtures will be an indicator of your future. Government regulations, support systems and dental professionals will NOT protect you. They haven't this far. It is your life, not theirs. Live it!