Just Me wrote:

"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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P.S. Here in Taxachusetts the dentists have to rig the spit sinks at each
of their chairs with filtration systems to trap whatever solids their
patients expectorate, to keep mercury from drilled out amalgam fillings
from ending up in the sewage. Seems a bit of a stretch to me though. It
was probably lobbied for like Hell by the sellers of those filters.




Spit sink!?!? I thought those went the way of the dinosaur. Haven't seen one
of those in a dentists office for a long time, 20+ years or more.

Lane



Maybe I'm calling it by the wrong name, but it's that bowl shaped thing
on the left side of the chair that you pour out the contents of your
mouth into after the busty dental assistant hands you a paper cup of
water and says, "Rinse".

Course I've been going to the same dentist for about 35 years and
nothing much has changed about his setup save for the addition of UV
light sources to cure the "epoxy" filling materials that seem to be
replacing over the amalgams. But, he was the one who bitched to me about
having to pay for the newfangled filtering system.

Jeff

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