For fillings that you get from now on, it would be best to ask for the newer resins instead of mercury. Mercury poisoning is yet another example of the pervasive onslaught of chemicals that has invaded our world. As consumers, we have the power to stop it by carefully selecting where we spend our dollars. Use non-mercury batteries, digital thermometers, and write your elected officials and insist that they work on this crisis. Fighting this issue, as with all types of activism, begins by just opening our mouths - carefully.
Help is available from a number of sources.
You can also see a naturopathic practitioner. Many diagnostic tools exist that a trained naturopath can use to determine if you are suffering from mercury toxicity. The Mercury Safety Products Company in England has comprehensive information about the hazards of mercury. There is growing international concern over the illegal dumping of thousands of tons of mercury, used in the extraction of gold from ore, in the Brazilian Amazon area. Mercury toxicity has been reported in hundreds of cases in the area and contamination of the water table is likely.