Majority DDSs (52%) now mercury-free - Tipping point at hand!

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Majority DDSs (52%) now mercury-free - Tipping point at hand!

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By Charles G. Brown, National Counsel, Consumers For Dental Choice

Monday, May 21st, 2007

 

The tipping point against mercury fillings, my friends, has arrived.  A

dentist magazine surveyed its dentist readers, and finds that 52% of American

dentists now are mercury-free.  www.toxicteeth.org/Mercury%20survey.pdf  

Wow.  

 

This new dentist majority brings colossal ramifications upon America ’s

protectors of mercury fillings -- the American Dental Association and the Food

and

Drug Administration.  

 

I wrote the head of the ADA to inform him that the ADA has missed the boat by

not exiting the mercury fillings business last year.  (I even went to Chicago

in December to hand them a graceful exit plan.)  Choosing instead to stay

mired in  the 19th century, ADA ’s pro-mercury members are likely to be

picked

off via lawsuits, one-by-ones.  The ADA , I advised Dr. Bramson, will morph

into

a numerical shadow of itself, as its members wake up to the fact that this

rallying around mercury has been a sham;

www.toxicteeth.org/52%25%20mercury-free,%20Dr.Bramson.pdf  With this new

evidence, if the ADA refuses to warn its

dwindling band of pro-mercury dentists to abandon mercury, the ADA likewise will

be sitting in the litigation dock.  

 

Our legal team -- Bob Reeves, Sandy Duffy, Kele Onyejekwe and I – was on the

brink of filing the re-match lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, (Moms Against

Mercury v. FDA II).  But FDA lawyers agreed at the 11th hour to a meeting. 

On May 10, they assembled a number of top officials, and I brought the

nation’s

#1 food and drug lawyer on the consumer’s side, Jim Turner.  We had what

diplomats describe as a “frank†session.  By letter afterwards, I asked FDA

to

meet with IAOMT ’s Science Advisory Board (see our web site,

www.toxicteeth.org,

 third item); IAOMT ’s liaison, Dr. Rich Fischer, is following through.

 

As the summer opens, we begin a short intense period where FDA will decide

whether to abandon its policy protecting mercury fillings and comply with the

law, adhere to the science, and apply plain common sense (the precautionary

principle of health care) – or continue its position that the health of

children

and pregnant women rank below professional courtesy to the dental

establishment.  My fellow lawyers join me in assuring you our powder is dry.  

 

The press corps that cover FDA are closely following our battle; see  

www.toxicteeth.org/natCamp_BNA-FDAMAM.cfm  and

www.toxicteeth.org/FDA%20Week%204.20.07.pdf  

 

For your community (regardless of whether it has reached the magic 51%

threshold), this development is huge.  Regardless of whether you are a health

professional or a consumer, please call in to talk shows; write a letter to the

editor; write a letter to your state and federal lawmakers and your state dental

board, with a message like this: 

 

A majority of dentists are now mercury-free!  Why are the old-fashioned

dentists sticking with this primitive 19th-century device in the 21st century? 

It’

s time to stop using mercury in dentistry.   

 

Charlie Brown, 5/16/07  

 

Charles G. Brown, National Counsel,     

 

Consumers for Dental

Choice                                     \

      

1725 K St., N.W., Suite 511, Washington DC 20006       

Ph. 202.822-6307; fax

822-6309                                    \

      

charlie, www.toxicteeth.org                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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