Re: What's it called when material from a filling procedure is embedded in the gum?... and there's a purple mark on the gum?


Amatus Cremona wrote:
Amalgam tattoos occur when some amalgam dust (or particles) get into a cut
or abrasion in the soft tissues during a filling placement or removal.
Typically due to the patient suddenly deciding (un-consciously) that they
have to swallow, close or raise their tongue for some reason, and hit the
spinning bur with the tissue below the tongue.

So you are saying that amalgam tattos cannot be caused by mercury/
alloy leakage from fillings. I thought above,
this process was supposed to "take years". I am not saying by the way
that most tattos (which I have never had)
leaks huge amounts of Hg. I only had deep unexplained metallic stains
on my front teeth for years. But don't you think that the patient
should be aware that

1) Common sense dictates that a tatto, even if it is mostly amalgam
particles will release some elemental Hg, just like amalgam
2) I would surmize based on the available evidence that tatto's can
form from slow leakage from an amalgam over time.
Now say there is a galvanic reactiion between two amalgams,
couldn't that cause a tatto.

You know what really pisses me off? I know two ladies that developed
tattos, a dentist drilled into their filling and they
ended up in the hospital. Do you know that all amalgams aren't the
same? Then you dentists are sitting here all calm and collected acting
like their is no connection between a tatto and amalgam breakdown,
instability, / Hg release. Like you EVEN CARE.

There is EVERY connection. Regardless of whether 9 times out of 10 the
dentist doesnt stuff the amalgam right and spills some amalgam
material into the tissue which may be relatively inert, THE QUESTION
is, Can an amalgam tatto, be indicative of long term Hg release from a
filling? Because this patient doesn't really know what is causing his
tatto and neither do you!

by the way are you aware that macrophages can act on a tatto and break
it down into elemental Hg and that if amalgam
particles are swallowed in the stomach, research shows that the
stomach can break down amalgam particles. I guess they
don't teach that in dental school either?


This causes a small scrape
in the tissues where this dust can enter--sometimes.

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What's it called when material from a filling procedure is embedded in
the gum?... and there's a purple mark on the gum?

If its the gums next to a silver filling, sometimes the minerals in the
filling can diffuse into the adjacent soft tissue gums and create a more
grey/black or have even seen a darker brown colour to the adjacent gums.
I
have never seen it as purple in colour. This is not necessarily because
an
actual piece of the filling material is jammed in to the gums...it can
occur
even if the filling is in the tooth but just beside the gums. If this
is
what you are talking about, we call it an "amalgam tattoo". But, can't
tell
for sure without see it. Best to get is checked by a dentist to be
sure.

John

Thank you John !

Where a drop of filling material falls onto the soft gum tissue during
the filling procedure, what is known or debated regarding leaching
into the body of the mineral compounds in filling material?... Because
gum tissue is soft tissue unlike a tooth, could there be leaching of
the mineral compounds from the amalgam tattoo into the body over
time?... and the filling material embedding into the soft gum tissue.


Keep in mind, I never said you had an amalgam tattoo....you need a dentist
to tell you for sure, so don't assume you have one.

Amalgam tattoos occur over a very long period of time (ie years), not just
when a piece of amalgam falls on the gums during the procedure and is
sucked up the suction before you leave the office.

As for the leaching into the systemic circulation, ask several reputable
toxicologists, and not internet lurkers claiming to be experts.

John


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