Does anyone else remember actually playing with a ball of Mercury, as a Kid? I do!!!

And all the lead paint on our cribs and toys..

This infuriates me on so many levels.

the pd forum has been talking about this for years. some of the members have had their fillings removed.

you have to be very careful. only let experinced dentists do it. you don't want any of the filling being grinded and then breathe it in.

In third grade. We got to play with a ball of mercury.

I'm pretty sure we were the last class to do so. I think one of the parents found out and was knowledgable about the dangers of mercury and insisted that the school be decontaminated or something. If the students had been doing that every year, there was probably bits of mercury everywhere.

Expensive lesson for a private Catholic school.

I remember sitting in the school nurses office and the mercury thermometer broke in my mouth. Yes, I bit down on it. She acted like it was nothing. That was second grade, about 7-8 years old.

dont hold back on telling us about the fda vic lol

long ago (well, maybe not that long) we used to use glass thermometers in the nursery. every baby had one. shaking them down before use often caused breakage because they could slip out of your hand.

the mercury would bead up and slide all over the floor.
we'd have to call a special team to clean up the spill.

I use to bust the mecury out of radiator fuses and play with it. Yikes.

I loved the way this part of the article read . . .

"The FDA said it did not recommend that people who currently have mercury fillings get them removed.

The FDA must issue the new rules in July 2009, Long said.

Such a rule could impact makers of metal fillings, which include Dentsply International Inc and Danaher Corp unit Kerr."

You just gotta feel for those companies and their bottom line, don't ya?

Between the mercury in fillings, and nickel from caps/crowns . . . I'm thinking "House's" first guess would be "metal toxicity", eh? At least they wouldn't have to search my house to determine the cause.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...highlight=caps

Cherie

gosh ... I had braces for 3 years ... from 13-15 .... and had many dentist visits so that I could get fillings on tops and sides so the 'metal railroad tracks' would fit nice and snug!!

no wonder when I went to the dentist in December (when I still had insurance) .. he wanted to 'fix' my filling situation .. never said anything about mercury ...

now I want to go in!!

btw - I LOVE going to the dentist or orthodontists ... still have the cards they sent me for christmas and birthday (one has a rabbit with a vice on his head and teeth ... "We're working on it!")