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[merchimerch]

Looks like today and tomorrow are going to be super busy - our friend K is flying out tomorrow in the early early AM and the Conservatory's exit exams are today and the College's are tomorrow....I am going to be a tired cookie by friday.

Plus R has had major dental work and is very out of sorts (understandably). The poor guy is getting all his fillings switched from mercury amalgam to ceramic plus having a botched root canal pulled and his front snaggle tooth repaired. He's heading back to the dentist on Thursday, which will be his 3rd trip. Luckily, K has bequeathed Tylenol 3 up on us.

Our plans for Tajikistan are moving along. We have our visas and the woman who is my main contact there came up with a horribly expensive place to stay for us ($50/night). I balked at this, especially because R and I pay $150 a MONTH here. Luckily Malika opa has family in Dushanbe and said that she would arrange it so we could stay with them. yay!

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[spam42.livejournal.com]

Now I'm curious; why switch the filling type? Were the amalgam ones defective?

My mom has mostly amalgam ones and mine are all ceramic, yet we have the same dentist. Curious...

[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

I believe that amalgam is defective by design - it has more than trace amounts of mercury in it. We are already getting a large dose of heavy metals by living here in UZ, and the US is steadily moving in that direction, so R is switching his fillings to ceramic while it's cheap.

Amalgam is the old and cheap way of doing things. I have all ceramic fillings and as far as i can tell they are the best thing to put in your teeth.