U.S. Issues Health Warning Over Mercury Fillings
June 29th, 2008I never thought that this would be officially acknowledged.
Via: Independent:
Amalgam dental fillings – which contain the highly toxic metal mercury – pose a health risk, the world’s top medical regulatory agency has conceded.
After years of insisting the fillings are safe, the US government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a health warning about them. It represents a landmark victory for campaigners, who say the fillings are responsible for a range of ailments, including heart conditions and Alzheimer’s disease.
Earlier this month, in an unprecedented U-turn, the FDA dropped much of its reassuring language on the fillings from its website, substituting: “Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and foetuses.” It adds that when amalgam fillings are “placed in teeth or removed they release mercury vapour”, and that the same thing happens when chewing.
The FDA is now reviewing its rules and may end up restricting or banning the use of the metal.
So should we have them removed, or would that pose a risk too?
It’s better that they be removed. Please make sure that the dentist removing them is competent with the procedure. Here is an extract from a document I obtained from one Ken Presner, an individual who went through hell because of ‘silver’ amalgam fillings.
“…never go to a dentist who uses mercury in his practice to have mercury fillings removed. He has a conflict of interest. His business is to sell you mercury fillings. He will compromise your health for profit. He will not take the necessary safety precautions during mercury removal and you will be worse off afterwards. This has happened to many people. If you choose to go to a dentist who uses mercury in his practice for mercury removal it is you who will pay the price, not your dentist.
My best advice is to go to a biological dentist who specializes in the safe removal of dental mercury fillings, and in their replacement with bio-compatible materials under safe conditions. If your dentist does not use a rubber dam in your mouth to prevent mercury fragments from being swallowed, and if he does not use a vacuum tube about 3 inches in diameter on your chest to vacuum out the mercury vapors before they can be breathed into the lungs when removing your mercury fillings my advice is run for the door and find a dentist who does, or you may regret your decision. These are the minimum precautions that should be used to ensure the safe removal of mercury fillings. In the United States you can find a biological dentist in your area, one who uses the correct precautions and who uses bio-compatible materials to replace mercury fillings, by visiting
http://www.dams.cc
An international guide to biological dentists can be found at
http://www.talkinternational.com/directories/dentists-global.html
Dentists who use mercury in their practice will not have a vacuum tube on your chest to vacuum out the dangerous mercury vapors. Why? Because they think that mercury is safe. They are all mercury toxic. Everyone who works in a dental office is toxic. This fact has been established by medical studies. Even the dental students are mercury toxic, according to the studies.
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Mercury from your fillings leaches into every tissue in the body. It travels to the brain and the kidneys and to every organ and system in the body, including the cardiovascular system. It can destroy the immune system. When you have bio-compatible plastics put in your mouth by a biological dentist your tissues and organs will not be poisoned, your nervous system will not be affected, and your immune system will not be under assault. After you have your mercury fillings replaced with plastic fillings the metal ions are still in your tissues and they can continue to poison you. You can remove these residual metals from your tissues by doing DMSA chelation.”
Don’t the plastic composite fillings contain bisphenol, which has also been implicated in bad health effects?
Yes, I would have loved to have seen the look on my dentist’s face when this pronouncement came out. She who assured me that my sister was “nuts” to get all of her mercury laden fillings taken out years ago.
I’ve been dental challenged from the day my molars came in. I’ve been a patient for dentists at Georgetown University who wanted to use me to fulfill their practicology before licensing.
I’ve got really nice work. Not much remains of amalgum fillings.
I used to joke that I paid for many a dentists children’s college education.
Now I can laugh and say I will be paying their heating bills in the winter.
The FDA acronym can stand for alot of things – but to put this announcement out now when most cash needs to go to the very basics of life seems to me a SUCKER PUNCH.