Mercury amalgam dental fillings

[brian636]

There is a website called " smoking teeth= poison gas ". It shows an extracted tooth with an amalgam filling with elemental mercury vapor coming from it like smoke from a cigarette. Given that this mercury vapor is about 95% as toxic as plutonium , could it cause as much damage to health as smoking a cigarette 24 hours a day??

In the United Kingdom if a patient has a tooth extracted it has to be disposed of very carefully in case it contaminates the environment. So it is considered to be dangerous once outside the patient's mouth but yet the politicians who run the National Health Service say it is safe inside the patient.

I wonder at what point in the extraction process that the filling changes from being safe into being dangerous?

The mercury leaks from the filling constantly and it can accumulate in the brain and other organs. According to the website it has a biological half-life in some parts of the brain over 27 year