Are Your Dental Fillings Containing Mercury Safe?
The dental association cites studies that found no harm from amalgams that are made with the metal
Reader Comments
Pain in my filling
I had a filling done December 2007. Around the gum in that area is very tender and a little swollen. I also feel a lot of pain inside the filling at times. I told the dentist and he offer dress it with medication. I have not gone back since. Recently I was told that I have a sinus infection in my throat. COULD THIS BE CAUSE BY THE FILLING? I am also unable to chrew on the teeth. I also grind my teeth at night.
Dental Amalgams
There is no question that amalgam fillings are very bad for your health. Under each amalgam filling is infection. When they are removed, infection is always found. If you have a gold or other metal crown plus any amalgam fillings, the rate at which mercury leaves the amalgam is 80 times faster due to the electrolysis issue. Go to this web site and watch a time lapse video of how mercury ions that come from amalgam fillings do to your brain tissue. This is from the University of Calgary School of Medicine research and this same research was verified by the University of Tennessee. After watching this, realize that the amount of mercury leaving your tooth each time you brush it is 100 to 1,000 times more mercury than was used in this study!
http://movies.commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/
If you believe the American Dental Association is putting your best interest above the dentists, you need to free yourself from the lies you believe. To further add to the insanity, the ADA will not allow dentists to tell you that amalgam fillings are bad for your health. Any dentist that does this will have his license revoked and he has only 3 reasons he can remove your amalgam fillings. They are also required to hand you a pamphlet that tells you the ADA stand on this subject. If you do not believe this, just ask your dentist to remove your amalgam because you believe it is bad for your health and see what he tells you.
FINALLY a major publciation with the truth!
See this site..
http://www.dentalwellness4u.com/
It explains everything you need to know about having them removed safely..
DO NOT JUST HAVE ANY DENTIST REMOVE THEM! YOU WILL GET POISONED MORE!
Make sure you have an expert remove them SAFELY...
Cerac is a type of computerized method of manufacturing inlays, crowns, porcelin veneers and is very cost effective and a good approach to avoiding dentures ,later with good dental hygiene.This approach often picks up old amalgam micro-decay, when done in office, by a DR. CARY GOLDSTEIN,my dentist, in Wickliff, Ohio.This can, and often will avoid more costlier and painful decay, resulting in expensive root canals, periodontal complcations,and or implants. Generally a Quadrant at a time is done with little or no discomfort in one visit. I would recomend this to anyone, because it works. I have worked as a Microbiologist ,and have always wondered what grew in the interface of those old amalgams ,and when you near 60 or even earlier, pictures of the removal show often times micro- decay.I would recomend this to anyone ,not because amalgams are toxic,but because of this micro-decay.My brother is Dr.MAX RICHARD TARMANN A 1954 Marquette Dental School graduate, who is now a retired Menlo Park,California ,ctraction Cosmetic Dentist.DR. GOLDSTEIN can also work with a special harder porcelin filling with a coeffient of contraction and expansion with a matching color of the tooth which is as close to normal tooth enamal as possible
cerec is a type of computerized method of manufacturing inlays, crowns, porcelin veneers and is very cost effective and a good approach to avoiding dentures ,later with good dental hygiene.This approach often picks up old amalgam micro-decay, when done in office, by a DR. CARY GOLDSTEIN,my dentist, in Wickliff, Ohio.This can, and often will avoid more costlier and painful decay, resulting in expensive root canals, periodontal complcations,and or implants. Generally a Quadrant at a time is done with little or no discomfort in one visit. I would recomend this to anyone, because it works. I have worked as a Microbiologist ,and have always wondered what grew in the interface of those old amalgams ,and when you near 60 or even earlier, pictures of the removal show often times micro- decay.I would recomend this to anyone ,not because amalgams are toxic,but because of this micro-decay.My brother is Dr.MAX RICHARD TARMANN A 1954 Marquette Dental School graduate, who is now a retired Menlo Park,California ,ctraction Cosmetic Dentist.DR. GOLDSTEIN can also work with a special harder porcelin filling with a coeffient of contraction and expansion with a matching color of the tooth which is as close to normal tooth enamal as possible
My mom couldn't function
As a child, I remember spending a lot of time in front of the TV. It was because my mom had mercury poisoning thanks to her dentists. Before she got hitched, and subsequently kicked off her father's dental insurance, her dentist replaced 14 amalgam fillings at once. This left her unable to do much of anything -- if she unloaded the dishwasher, she would have to unload one rack then go back for the second rack after lying down for half an hour. She lost weight, and we both come from skinny genes that can't really afford to lose weight.
When she got pregnant with me, she was vomiting every 30 minutes for the entire first trimester and even lost weight until she regained something of an appetite in the second trimester. That was the only time in her life when she fainted. She thinks it was from the mercury that was in her veins at the time. I was even born a month late, probably because I missed out on some badly needed nutrition that didn't come through at the beginning of the pregnancy.
She had all the fillings removed in the early to mid 90's and got somewhat better, but then another dentist that chose to ignore her allergy tests used a copper crown on my mom around 1997. For 3 years, it's almost like I didn't have a mom - she lost her mind and couldn't really function.... losing things in front of her face, she'd fly off the handle for no reason, and she still has problems to this day with feeling/numbness/grasping in her extremities.
I suggest an approach the German gov't has taken to mercury fillings - don't put them in pregnant women, ones that plan to get pregnant, or children. Maybe we just need socialized healthcare for the gov't in the US to want to prevent disease and keep the public from suing the socialized healthcare for endangering their lives!
Being an only child, I've been drug to doctors, lawyers, offices, therapies, and some quacks (and my mom has gotten back enough of her brain to figure out the last category pretty quickly, fortunately) and I've had to live her life just as she has, minus the amalgum fillings and the weariness and frustration at getting to the root of the problem. Doctors still look at her and tell her she's crazy to think that something the ADA has approved for use in all people has caused so many problems in her fragile system. I've watched since I was a little kid the troubles that these have caused. She has been mercury free for over a decade and she still has problems (hair tests show she still has a copper level off the charts despite chelation therapy as well as other heavy metal poisoning), but she's got much more vigor and appreciation for life than she did when my first memories started forming.
Danger of amalgam fillings
I once had 14 mercury-containing fillings. They are thankfully now all replaced with Cerac restorations or crowns. I am a chemist and know a little about Mercury. It is an extremely toxic and dangerous material, probably the most toxic non-radioactive element. Microgram amounts of mercury in our blood can destroy our neurons - hence the phrase "Mad as a hatter" because hatters worked with mercury.
America has placed way too much faith in the ADA who claims mercury fillings are safe. I believed them, assuming this meant that the mercury in my fillings was "locked up" by the silver and other elements present. This is emphatically not the case. When old fillings are tested for mercury content, as much as half of the original mercury is gone. Where did it go? Into your mouth, saliva, and other tissues. Monitoring studies have found that mercury is released more rapidly when hot liquids are consumed or vigorous chewing occurs.
Thankfully, young, healthy human bodies have the ability to sequester and remove much of this mercury from the body before it can do much harm. But as we age and/or our health deteriorates, our bodies no longer can remove the mercury fast enough. At this point, the consequences of mercury exposure can become more evident. These most commonly are neurological or gastrointestinal problems.
If you get a cavity, you would be very wise not to allow your dentist to fill it with an amalgam filling.
Danger of Dental Fillings
Other studies have shown that the amount of mercury in the human body from mercury/silver dental fillings far exceeds the amount from contaminated ocean fish. Since mercury in vacines has been implicated in the skyrocketing increase in autism no official organization once having recommended amalgam fillings will denounce them as the costs or the lawsuits would be unprecendented, perhaps hundreds of billions. One very important point to realize is that an ordinary dentist should never be used to remove amalgam fillings. ONLY someone specially trained should attempt this as the results can be nearly fatal if not done correctly. An interesting story of a doctor who did not realize that removing such fillings required a specialist trained in this area and nearly died as a result can be found on the web. He is the highly regarded Joseph Mercola who runs a clinic in Chicago. Check it out and learn all you can before you go this route. My soon to be 90 year old mom had all her teeth taken out during WWII because one went bad and she didn't want to be bothered with all the pain and suffering and expense. Her total costs since 1944 for dentistry have been $375 for two sets of dentures. She will soon need a third pair and with inflation that will be a lot more today. I have spent in excess of $20,000. on my teeth, endured incredible suffering, and will probably need dentures pretty soon myself anyway. My mom has never regreted her decision. I have often regretted mine(not to follow her path). My advice: Don't believe everything you read, and learn all you can before deciding.
amalgams used at an earlier age and their micro subsurface decay
Amalgams are a thing of the past.A NEW PROCEEDURE,CERAC,in which a dentist who is expertly trained and requires a very high post dental school learning curve, can remove old fillings of all types which have micro subsurface decays.PROCECURE quadrant at a time can be totally reconstructed,so that old filling with micro interface decay not easily noted ,until severe decay develops often with age. This preventives need of future crowns, root cannals and nfection s teeth implants andthe office create a syntheticenamal like and feels like a natural tooth both cosmetically and medical natural as your origonal teeth.THESE CERAC CERAMIC INSERTS HAVE A CO=EFFICIENT OF CONTRACTION AND EXPANSON AS CLOSE TO NORMAL TOOTH ENAMAL. THESE ARE PROCUCED IN OFFICE AND FUSSED TO THE TOOTHS.I HAVE HAD ALL BUT ONE QADRANT DONE ,BECAUSE MY OLD GOLD FILLINGS WHERE FINE INCLUDING AN OLD GOLD BRIDGE ALSO , THIS IS ALL COMPUTERIZED SO THE INSERTS IN THE OFFICE ARE EXACT AND AS NATURAL AS YOUR ORIGIONAL TEETH. I RECOMMEND THIS FOR ANYONE.
deadly dentists
The case against Hg fillings closed with the radioactive silver filling tests in sheep. These studies show exactly how the Hg poison travels from filled tooth to locations thruout our bodies. The news media consistently white washes the obvious crime , which mercury in the mouth represents. I'm a victim. Got it removed many many years ago. Thank heaven!
