Dentistry scams exposed: Mercury fillings and unnecessary dental surgery

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Dentistry scams exposed: Mercury fillings and unnecessary dental surgery

 

 

Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 by Mike Adams

 

 

Modern dentistry is a curious branch of conventional medicine, and

like much of conventional medicine, it offers a strange mixture of

both helping people (improving dental health) while harming them

(filling cavities with mercury). Most dentists, like many doctors,

believe in outrageous myths like the idea that putting mercury, one of

the most toxic substances known to man, into the mouths of patients is

perfectly safe. Dentists also routinely promote the ludicrous idea

that dripping fluorosilicic acid, a toxic waste product sometimes

called " fluoride, " into public water supplies somehow reduces cavities

in children. And thus, like most practitioners of conventional

medicine, dentists to a near-religious belief in several

health-related falsehoods.

 

The mercury fillings issue is one of the most outrageous. Dentists

don't even call them " mercury " fillings anymore, because the public

has finally figured out that mercury is toxic. So they call them

" silver " fillings, but they're still made of approximately 40%

mercury. Once this mercury is placed in a person's mouth, it begins to

break down, off-gassing mercury vapor that's inhaled with every

breath. It causes chronic, low-level mercury poisoning that I have no

doubt is partly responsible for today's epidemic of Alzheimer's

disease, dementia and various neurological disorders. The American

Dental Association, no surprise, continues to insist that mercury

fillings are completely safe, despite all the evidence showing that

mercury fillings create mercury vapor.

 

Some forward-thinking dentists, however, are spearheading a movement

to ban mercury fillings. The International Academy of Oral Medicine &

Toxicology (www.IAOMT.com), for example, offers a shocking video

called " Smoking Teeth " that clearly shows mercury vapor off-gassing

from mercury fillings, even with minimal stimulation (like chewing or

tooth brushing). How much mercury? One thousand times the EPA's

maximum allowable mercury limit for air. Check out their must-see

video at www.IAOMT.com.

 

The mercury from this vapor quickly travels to the kidneys, liver,

intestines, heart, brain and other organs. The science is irrefutable,

but most dentists aren't interested in real science, it turns out.

They just want to be able to continue using mercury fillings based on

the ADA-accepted consensus lie that mercury is somehow inert and never

leaves fillings.

 

The great wisdom teeth removal scam

I'm one of those rare persons who still has all his wisdom teeth. This

gives me more teeth than most people, and I have yet to meet a dentist

(other than a natural health dentist) who didn't immediately suggest

surgery to remove them. Dentists' desire to remove wisdom teeth is

entirely irrational. The procedure generates lots of revenues for oral

surgery (while causing considerable pain and suffering on the part of

patients), but it has absolutely no rational justification, nor any

real benefit, in most cases. As you'll see in the study mentioned

below, published in the British Medical Journal, dental surgeries to

remove asymptomatic wisdom teeth are pure bunk.

 

The key discerning factor here, by the way, is whether wisdom teeth

are asymptomatic, meaning that they show no signs of disease or

discomfort. Today in the UK, it is standard policy to avoid removing

asymptomatic wisdom teeth. After all, if they don't hurt and there's

nothing wrong, why undergo surgery to remove them? But in the United

States, it remains standard operating procedure to surgically remove

even asymptomatic wisdom teeth, simply because they are there. It

makes about as much sense as saying we should cut off everybody's

fingers because they have so many. (Don't give surgeons any new ideas,

now. This may be the next procedure promoted after bariatric surgery

is finally banned.)

 

It's all silly advice, of course. A dentist looks in your mouth, and

in three seconds, determines that you need dental surgery? Hogwash.

It's just a revenue generating procedure that's dishonestly pushed

onto patients who gladly go along with anything their dentist says,

even when it's utter nonsense.

Related article

Your dentist is full of bunk: surgery to remove wisdom teeth is

worthless, says British Medical Journal

 

Surgery to remove wisdom teeth is worthless, says British Medical Journal

(Partially reprinted from www.NewsTarget.com/001108.html)

 

In a groundbreaking report from the British Medical Journal,

researchers who poured over thousands of studies detailing the

efficacy of medical and dental procedures have concluded that many

popular surgical procedures are completely worthless. Among those is

one of the most common procedures performed by your dentist: the

removal of so-called " impacted " wisdom teeth. According to the BMJ,

this procedure may actually do more harm than good.

 

I don't trust dentists. I've long suspected dentists of scaring

patients into undergoing unnecessary procedures in order to generate

more business. My suspicions were confirmed when I visited a dentist

in 2001 for a basic checkup. After taking dental x-rays (another

health hazard, as new research is showing), my dentist fed me a scare

story about how I still had all my wisdom teeth, and that all those

teeth needed to be surgically removed. I was absolutely stunned.

 

My wisdom teeth were working just fine: no cavities, no pain, no

problems. I had made an appointment for a routine checkup, not to

undergo expensive surgery for my wisdom teeth. But my dentist

insisted, relying on a variety of scare tactics to try to convince me

to undergo this expensive -- and completely unnecessary -- procedure.

His behavior was highly unethical. He was using his authority and

position as " the dentist " to try to scare me into accepting a surgical

procedure that I quite obviously didn't need. In fact, even he

couldn't give me a good reason for justifying the surgery other than

to say, " We usually remove the wisdom teeth quite early. " Which means,

of course, that they just order the surgery for every child or

teenager who walks into the clinic, regardless of whether they

actually need it.

 

Now, it turns out, the removal of wisdom teeth has been found to be an

utterly worthless procedure to begin with. It " may do more harm than

good " says the British Medical Journal, after reviewing literally

thousands of case studies. So the typical dentist is really just

hyping a useless procedure, and if your dentist is anything like the

dentist I encountered, they're also using all sorts of highly

unethical scare tactics to try to force people into undergoing the

procedure. That's downright evil, and yet it's a common practice among

dentists in the United States.

Related article

How to get mercury fillings removed without exposing yourself to toxic

mercury vapor

 

Folks, you need to start questioning your dentist. Don't believe

everything they tell you. Often they're just full of bunk, or they're

trying to sell you on whatever procedure they get paid for performing.

They're not all evil -- many actually believe these procedures will

help you, which is why they seem so sincere -- but they are grossly

misinformed. Their beliefs are based on medical dogma, not scientific

fact. Their beliefs in these procedures are nothing more than a sort

of medical pathology, where certain things are just considered " true "

and never questioned even though the original basis for accepting them

as truth has been proven entirely false.

 

In the vast majority of cases, you will be healthier and wiser by

ignoring the advice of your conventional doctor or dentist and seeking

out a naturopathic doctor and a natural health dentist. In fact, it's

very important to avoid allowing a doctor or dentist to even hit you

with a scare story or other manipulation tactic, because most people

will just go right along with their advice even when it makes no

sense. People don't question medical authorities as much as they

should. And dentists know it. They know that most patients will just

go ahead and agree to practically anything they recommend.

 

That makes a situation where fraud and exploitation of patients is

frighteningly easy to accomplish. Any dentist that wants to generate

more revenues for their office can simply start recommending an

expensive surgical procedure as " standard practice " and claim, " we

always take those teeth out. " It might be complete hogwash, but most

people -- absurdly -- will buy into it. Don't let that person be you.

Keep your dentist honest. Better yet, seek out a " natural " dentist who

won't use mercury fillings or highly toxic fluoride, and who will turn

to surgery as a last resort rather than a " standard procedure. " Don't

be tricked into unnecessary (and medically dangerous) surgical

procedures that can only cause you harm.

 

You may also want to check out this story about the toxicity of fluoride.

http://www.newstarget.com/005900.html

 

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