Dental health

[amedinaok]

My old silver filling was in very bad shape & I asked a dentist if he would remove it by suctioning it. He said yes, but after he numbed the tooth he drilled it and never suctioned it. When I called his attention on this, he said first that there was no mercury in that filling, then he said that he did suctioned it (he showed me the saliva suctioner that dentist always use). He filed the tooth and his plan is just cover it up with a crown, not roots canal. I'm cuestioning if this dentist is doing the right thing. Today was my second visit with him. What do you think?

[brucedixon01]

I don't know exactly what to say, since not all the dentist are doing the same thing in their every patient but If you have trust to that dentist, I think you should go with them.

[amedinaok]

Is it safe? The new dentist I visited took out an old silver filling by drilling it instead of suctioning it, in spite that I had specifically requested suction. He filed my tooth and is planning on putting a crown over it with no root canal.
Does anyone knows if that is safe? Wouldn't the tooth be too sensitive afterwards?