So I got my first cavity I've ever had in my life. The dentist found a cavity in a recent teeth cleaning procedure, and rescheduled me for a cavity filling.
So before the process I asked what was inside of the fillings. The dental assistant I was dealing with came back after a few minutes with a printout which was written by some hack dentist claiming that Bisphenol-A was totally safe, and that people who believed different were quacks. I'm not kidding. I explained to the dental assistant that Bisphenol-A was a form of estrogen and linked to the feminization epidemic throughout the country. I even told her it was banned in Canada and I think she seemed a bit shocked after I said that.
I dunno if she believed me or thought I was crazy, so I asked if there were other options besides the ceramic/BPA type filing which was their default. She said the alternative was the old school mercury fillings. I asked if there was any other forms I could do. She said no. I asked her to double check with the dentist, so she reluctantly did so. She told me there was a 3rd option, which was a gold dental amalgam. I seem satisfied with that and said I would go with that, but they obviously don't have gold on hand since they told me only one person a year requests this.
So I scheduled an appointment to get a fitting for my tooth so they can send it out to a lab and get my custom gold filling. The price tag was high, but I'd rather have that than the Bisphenol-A or the Mercury filling.
Now I'm wondering, are there other options? Is the gold filling the right choice? I heard that gold isn't perfect either, but then what do I do?