traditional dentistry.\u00a0 Removing\u00a0 mercury-based amalgams is first and foremost, and then restoring the tooth to its normal state.\u00a0\u00a0(Using a porcelain-fiber composite filling.)\u00a0 James wasn’t quite sure about having the rubber\/plastic dam surrounding the tooth.\u00a0(Purpose of the rubber dam is while removing the\u00a0amalgam with a drill,\u00a0the mercury stays contained and is not splashing everywhere to be reabsorbed.\u00a0 Also , the porcelain-fiber composite filling requires the tooth to stay dry for a few minutes)\u00a0 Also, the use of Ozone to kill the remaining bacteria didn’t quite go over well with James.\u00a0 He accidentally inhaled it which caused a 20 minute coughing attack.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For 3 cavities it took 2 1\/2 hours!<\/p>\n

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James went to a new dentist here in town.\u00a0 The dentist has some new procuedures that I’m much more in favor of than traditional dentistry.\u00a0 Removing\u00a0 mercury-based amalgams is first and foremost, and then restoring the tooth to its normal state.\u00a0\u00a0(Using a porcelain-fiber composite filling.)\u00a0 James wasn’t quite sure about having the rubber\/plastic dam surrounding … Continue reading “James’ Visit to the Dentist”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-amalgam","tag-dentist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}