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(In the Mouth)

Dental mercury pollution is responsible for more diseases and human misery

then anyone imagines. Amalgam is made of 50% mercury which leaches from the set

amalgam all of the time.

 

It is very difficult to accept the devastating reality about what dentists

have done to humanity, and what they intend to continue to do. Even though the

evaporation of mercury from dental amalgam was known as early as 1882 by

Talbot and by Stock in 1926[ii] dentists have, decade by decade, continued to

expand the use of mercury amalgam cavity fillings. It is well known that the

American Dental Association[iii] (ADA) and the American Medical Association

(AMA)

were founded to defend their respective professions use of mercury, which was

under attack in the 1800s. What is very clearly evident about these

organizations is the fact that they have resisted, to their utmost ability, any

suggestion that mercury in medical and dental products is dangerous. In the case

of

dentistry there is no doubt who won the “amalgam wars,†though the losers

are

each and every person who ended up with a mouth full of materials that wreck

havoc with ones health.

Though sensitivity to the poisonous effects of mercury is highly individual

and unpredictable it is considered a poison by most rational people and

organizations. According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

(ATSDR) mercury is used in producing of chlorine gas and caustic soda, and in

extracting gold from ore or articles that contain gold. It is also used in

thermometers, barometers, batteries, and electrical switches. Silver-colored

dental

fillings typically contain about 50% metallic mercury.

Mercury is one of the most potent chemical inhibitors of thiol-sensitive

enzymes and mercury vapor easily penetrates into the central nervous system. Dr.

Boyd Haley

Mercury interferes with enzyme function and this disturbs protein synthesis

and mitochondria energy production. Thus mercury toxicity, even at low levels

can interfere with cell reproduction, cause fatigue, and is sometimes known to

lower body temperature more than the thyroid can compensate for. ``Doctor

Edward Howell states in his book Enzyme Nutrition, that the chief culprit of

disease is enzyme deficiency or undernourishment, the all-important, underlying

predisposing first cause, which prepares the ground for degeneration and ill

health. The assault of mercury, as the leading most toxic polluting heavy metal,

poised to attack our biological activity and devastate our enzyme and nervous

activity simultaneously, is like a sneak attack behind enemy lines; it is not

laying out there in the environment somewhere like a landmine that some

unfortunate soul unlucky steps on. It is planted inside our mouth as a vaporous

chemical weapon whose poison is guaranteed to leak out into our inner

biochemistry.

Dr. Hal A. Huggins stated that amalgam fillings can effectively devastate

human health, that the accumulation of mercury can be so toxic that the effects

imitate a hand grenade of biological violence. It is a fact of life that

dentists who practice using conventional methods are the largest combined group

of

individuals in our society who cause exposure to mercury. It turns out that our

former best and most trusted friends are in actuality our biological enemies.

The most common form of exposure to mercury is by inhalation of vapor and

there is widespread general agreement that this leads to a slowly developing and

insidious poisoning, which at first yield psychic and other general effects

that are vague and difficult to diagnose. The World Health Organization (WHO) in

1991 determined that dental amalgam was the greatest source of mercury

contamination to the general population - up to ten times greater than all other

sources combined[iv], and that that for mercury vapor, there is no known

" no-observable-effect level (NOEL) " . In other words all levels of mercury vapor

are

harmful. Doctors Kingman, Albertini and Brown concur having determined in their

research with US military populations that the major contributor to mercury

body burdens of Americans comes from dental amalgam.[v]

Amalgam dental fillings have been in use for about 180 years originating in

England then spreading to the rest of Europe and America. At the time they

gained immediate acceptance by dentists as they provided a cheap and reasonably

effective alternative to any other filling techniques. Figures released from the

Gold Institute in Washington show that America and Japan use proximately 100

metric tons of silver per year for the fabrication of dental material. The

silver fillings in our mouths should more accurately be called mercury fillings

as they are made of about 50% mercury and only about 35% silver. Amalgam is a

mixture of Silver, Tin, Zinc and Copper which is mixed in the dental surgery

with an equal amount of mercury. This would indicate that approximately 140

metric tons of mercury is being placed directly into the mouths of these

countries

citizens. Scaled up to figure the world wide use, we can speculate that

approximately 1,000 metric tons of mercury, the most poisonous non radioactive

element known to mankind, are being placed directly inside of human mouths,

where

chewing and bacteria maximize contamination and vapor release, and where the

lungs are present to absorb what is released. This kind of tonnage is making

some people a mountain of money creating vested interests in the continued use

of mercury amalgam tooth fillings. When the ADA says that the strongest and

most convincing support they have for the safety of dental amalgam is the

fact  

that each year more than 1.1 billion amalgam fillings are placed in the United

States, they should be careful not to incriminate themselves and give lawyers

the true dimensions of the chemical horror they have perpetuated.

Vapors from Hell

It is estimated that an amalgam filling will release up to half of its

mercury content over a ten year period (50% corrosion rate).

Dr. Robert Gammal

Dental amalgam fillings interact in a complex way with the environment in the

oral cavity as they are subjected to chemical, biological, mechanical, and

thermal forces yet dental authorities tell us that amalgam is a stable material.

They suggest that the mercury is locked into the fillings, that free mercury

does not exist in amalgam, which they say is an alloy formed in the mixing

process, and cannot break down into elemental mercury or dangerous mercury

compounds as it is molecularly linked to the other component metals. This

statement

is false. By definition an amalgam is a mixture of one or more metals with

mercury. It is not an alloy - it is a mixture. As such the whole substance has

free mercury as part of its components. The average size amalgam filling

contains approximately 750,000 micrograms of mercury (Hg) which releases part of

that

everyday for as long as the filling is in a person’s mouth. A microgram (mcg)

is 1/1,000 of a milligram in weight or one-millionth of a gram. A milligram

(mg) is 1/1,000 of a gram by weight.

People with amalgam are exposed to from tens to several hundreds of

micrograms of mercury per day depending on how many fillings are in their mouth,

how

old the fillings are, how much a person brushes their teeth, chews and eats, the

bacteria count in the mouth, and even the temperature of the body. Dr. Vimy,

professor of dentistry says, " It is estimated that the average individual,

with eight biting surface mercury fillings, is exposed to a daily dose uptake of

about 10 micrograms mercury from their fillings. Select individuals may have

daily doses 10 times higher (lOOmcgs) because of factors which exacerbate the

mercury vaporization. These factors include frequency of eating, chronic gum

chewing, chronic tooth grinding behavior (usually during sleep), and the

individual's chewing pattern, consumption of hot foods and drinks, and mouth and

food

acidity.†A critical and often overlooked variable is body temperature.

People with high fevers will increase the vapor emission rate of the amalgam

because mercury is highly unstable at or above the melting point of Hg, which is

only 39oC. This is also why drinking lots of hot coffee and tea will increase

the

vaporization rate.

Dr. Haley says, “The ADA claims that a zinc oxide layer is formed on the

amalgams that decreases mercury release is true, if you don’t use the teeth!

The

zinc oxide layer would be easily removed by slight abrasion such as chewing

food or brushing the teeth. If you gently rub the amalgam with a toothbrush the

amount of mercury emitted goes up dramatically.†Placing gold into a mouth

with

amalgam fillings will also create an increase in electrical currents in the

fillings which also results in an increase in the release of mercury from all

of the fillings. A gold crown over an amalgam filling may cause a four fold

increase in the amount of mercury being driven through the tooth.[vi] Amalgam is

still the most commonly used material to build a core for a crown. New types

of amalgam introduced in the past 20 years or so have increased copper content.

This type of amalgam emits much more mercury than older fillings.[vii] Any

plumber and certainly all chemists know that it’s not a good idea to mix

elements with both gold and copper increasing the rate of mercury corrosion and

emission.

Note: Vapors from Hell is continued in the book The Rising Tide of Mercury.

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Hanson, Mats. A hundred and fifty years of misuse of dental amalgam.

http://art-bin.com/art/hanson_en.html 

[ii] Stock, Alfred. (1876-1946) German chemist, appointed professor of

inorganic chemistry at the polytechnicum of Bresiau. Stock showed that dental

amalgam fillings more than three years old denerated mercury vapor in the mouth

with

an iodine color test.

[iii] Cline, John. Mercury Toxicity and the Use of DMPS Chelation. When

mercury amalgam was initially introduced into North America in the 1830s, its

use

was vehemently opposed by the dental licensing authority, the American Society

of Dental Surgeons and official policies were adopted to prohibit the use of

this material. Their concern was focussed upon the safety of placing mercury

into humans since many toxic effects of mercury were well known; including

dementia and loss of motor coordination. In spite of this official prohibition,

several dentists continued to use mercury amalgam and some were subsequently

suspended for malpractice. The popularity of this inexpensive, durable and easy

to

work with material continued to rise amongst dentists and by 1856, there were

so many dentists using mercury amalgam that the American Society of Dental

Surgeons was disbanded by overwhelming opposition to their policy surrounding

amalgam fillings. Following this, in 1859 the American Dental Association was

founded on the premise that mercury amalgam was a safe and desirable tooth

filling material.

[iv] Friberg L. Inorganic Mercury. In: Organization WH, ed. Environmental

Health Criteria 118. Geneva: WHO; 1991.

[v] Kingman, A., Albertini, T., and Brown, L.J., Mercury Concentrations in

Urine and Whole Blood Associated with Amalgam Exposure in a US Military

Population. J of Dental Research, 1998 V77 (3) pg 461.

[vi] Gammal, Robert. Bio Compatible Dentisty. http://www.bcd.com.au 

[vii] Ferracane et. Al., 1995