Hi Renga, you wrote: >I had mercury amalgum filling in my lower molars on both sides of my mouth. >One of them partially came off a week ago. Hurry up! Damaged amalgam fillings are very dangerous! You are in high danger of getting a mercury intoxification! >I thought this is a good time to >remove all mercury stuff and replace with non-metallic fill. When I met the >Dentist this wednesday, she said that she couldn't simply do a fill; instead >she needed to do root canal on both molars; Oh yes, dentists almost always say such things. Just friday I went to a dentist (the first time after 4 years) to have a cement filling made. The old filling has fallen out when I ate honey in the comb. He told me that he would do some anesthetisia for the tooth. I asked why. And he said he had to drill. I refused that und wanted just a filling. This was refused by him without giving any reasons. So that session ended without something done. I went to a dental store, bought dental cement and did the filling on my own. Yeah! My first filling! Just ask other dentists if it is really necessary to do a root canal. If your dentist talked about a root canal without knowing how deep the existing filling is, she was committing a fraud. But I guess she had an X-Ray or something? Or could see how deep the filling is because most of it is already fallen out? >Is there any >raw-food approach to this problem? No. Raw greetings, Stefan