i went to an centre of acupuncture and kinesiology. i know this is far away from the school medicine. my neuro also laughed at me telling me his mouth is full of this crap too. there is no test clearly indicating the amount of mercury in your system as it leaves blood and urine and hides in the cells, your organs including your brain and in the nervous system. @simon: do a quick search on google and you will find plenty of links that lead to ms/als (as one of several causes). the geographics of ms and amalgam dentistry are similar, both ms and als were first reported shortly after the amalagam dentistry began 150 years ago - enough evidence for me.i have searched for a long time in my hometown to find a dentist who is accepting my wish to get pure oxygene in my nose during removal. i would never do it without oxygene as it prevents to breath in to much of mercury vapour. i had replaced them with a material testet out on allergies by the kinesiologist. it is a sort of plastic, certainly not very healthy either but not as worse as quicksilver which is the the second poisonious substance in the world (after plutonium)!i had eight very small fillings - when put the whole filling surface together i would have come to one mid-size or bigger filling what is not very much but much enough to contaminate your system and provocate autoimmun processes (as also ms is and maybe als as one of the main theories). i have already three autoimmune disorders: bfs, vitiligo and pernicous anemia. others could follow as they rarely come alone (with vitiligo often autoimmune thyroid problems follow after years of the onset). i will have to go back to the kinesiologist on monday to start a detoxication therapy with algues medication for several months. the whole thing (kinesiologist and dentist) costs me about 2500/3000 swiss francs (i think about 3500/4500 us-dollars).by the way: mercury or aluminium is also part of every vaccin you get. i decided not to get contaminated from this crap anymore and not to get any vaccin anymore. while writing this the tv shows a report of a little girl who was vaccined against fsme (tick), she is a wrack now.