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Heavy metal accumulation is due to what the fish eat - filter feeders that concentrate metals.
Our diet is much more varied.
praptak
on Aug 23, 2019
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There's lead from dental fillings though.
refurb
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Mercury? There is no lead in dental filings. In fact, filings are mercury free as of the last couple of decades.
labawi
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In some places, yes. If you get the silver/gray stuff, it's about half mercury.
praptak
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I think lead was used in dental amalgams but I don't know when it was phased out. But yeah, mercury too.
bregma
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The word "amalgam" means a mixture of mercury with another metal. A lead amalgam would be too soft to use as a chewing surface (it would have a texture like chewing gum). Traditional dental amalgams were mixtures of silver or gold and mercury.
praptak
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You are right, I probably misremembered what I've read.
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Our diet is much more varied.