There never was nor is ANY possible way that elemental gold can react with a 'silver' filling under any conditions existing in the buccal cavity. Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "samantha pudge" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 11:10 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Very interesting . . . > let's throw another log on the fire. > > there was a time when if you had a silver filling and a gold tooth next to it, they had a chemical reaction and free mercury was released. fortuatley that is no longer the case. > > sami ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn