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| Mercury amalgam("silver")fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/18/2006 2:11:04 PM | Mercury amalgam fillings have been in use since the 1800's and over that time, many have questioned whether it was a good idea to put such harmful substance(mercury)inside people's mouths. The ADA says they are completely harmless and safe and that when the mercury is combined with other metals in the filling(mercury amalgam or "silver" fillings are close to 50% mercury), it won't leak out. But an organization called the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology(IAOMT)want mercury amalgam fillings banned because they say that when people with mercury amalgam fillings chew food(or gum), especially hot foods, and brush their teeth, dangerous levels of mercury are released from the mercury amalgam fillings and they even provide proof to back it up. I found this out at http://www.newstarget.com/019414.html
Here's a clip of what was said on that site:
"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."
I have a couple of mercury amalgam fillings I'd like to have removed and replaced with diamond crown(not made from real diamond, just a brand name)fillings which I heard are the safest kind of filling to get but I need to find a good mercury free dentist, and one I can afford first. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/24/2006 7:17:55 PM | Mercury free dentist? Not sure I understand. Are you looking for a dentist whose instruments don't touch mercury amalgam at all? kinda like people who avoid places due to nut allergies?
My dentist offers both kinds of fillings and you have a choice. Don't dentists in the USA provide the same choice? just pick the diamond crown filling.
I can't use the new white fillings. I react to it so I had to have it removed and replaced with the mercury filling. I've had silver amalgam fillings since I was a kid and I'm fine. If I was to follow every so-called news release, life would be like a yo-yo. Some new research would soon come out and say something contradictory.
Do whatever you think is best for you. Good Luck in your search. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/24/2006 8:36:39 PM | Ah, that could explain why I heard music when I didn't have a radio....
and I only have 1 filling....
Seriously, I've had what I thought was mercury poisoning, from eating too much fish... like for a month, it was that or salad. I was itchy all over, but nothing that meds couldn't fix. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/24/2006 10:05:13 PM | A mercury-free dentist(or biological detist or holistic dentist) is one who does not use the mercury fillings at all. If a dentist is still using mercury fillings, I don't even want to give them my business because I am personally convinced they are harmful and should not be used.
Some people have made that argument, that they have mercury fillings and they haven't experienced any negative effects. But what if the harmful effects are subtle so you can't tell?
Its sort of like the same claim people who eat tuna alot have made, they may claim to have not had any harm done to them from the mercury in the tuna, but how can they be sure they were not affected in a hamful but subtle way that they couldn't tell? | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/25/2006 10:35:50 PM | Reality is something is going to kill you at some point in time. Our food is genetically altered. Meat has hormones and antibiotics in it. The air we breath is polluted. The ozone layer has a hole. Really... are you going to stop breathing too?? Paranoia is not a good thing.
I need fillings in my teeth so I can eat. I can't use that new stuff since it bothers my teeth/gums. Honestly, I love to eat so I need my teeth. I guess I just have to live with the small possibility that my fillings might do me some harm.
I can walk out my front door and get hit by a car too but you know what, I have to leave my house to go to work. Heck, if I was to worry about all these trivial things, I might as well live in a bubble.
You poor thing... I hope you find your dentist soon. BTW I'm just wondering...would he have to get rid of his instruments after he takes out your silver fillings?? you know,... to remain truly mercury free... | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/25/2006 11:34:06 PM | Yes, we will all die sooner or later, but why not have it be later? Thats why I do the best I can to take care of my health. And thanks very much, but I am not paranoid. And I don't appreciate the tone you are taking with me either. Making fun of people on a serious topic; at your age, you should know better than that.
Yes there are plenty of other bad things besides mercury fillings, such as the things you mentioned, however, most of what you mentioned can be avoided. You can get organic foods, you can get organic grass-fed meat. You can choose not to live in a big city where the air pollution is high.
And to you, all the above mentioned things plus the dental stuff may be trivial, but to me it is not trivial at all. As far as dental instruments, never heard they were made with mercury. Even if they were, which I have a problem believing, they would only be used on me for a short time, not in my mouth for decades like mercury fillings are.
I did not get on your case or make fun of you because you decided to get mercury fillings, I simply questioned whether they were as safe as you made them out to be, I'd appreciate it if you showed the same decency and courtesy to me for the choices I make about my health. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/26/2006 5:14:26 AM | Did you not ask for our opinion on whether we thought silver fillings were harmful or not?
I'm sorry if you don't like my answer. Maybe you should not ask for people's opinion if you cannot show some respect when they answer your question.
Re: Organic foods. There is no regulating body for Organic foods. A company can stick an organic label on any product that has only 1 ingredient that is organic in it even if it is 1 out of say 10 ingredients. You pay a much higher price for the product irregardless of how many ingredients are organic. Just because it says it is organic does not mean it is organic. How do you really know the truth?
Grass fed meat? Is the grass not growing in a polluted environment? Is the soil chemical/toxin free? Do you have proof of this?
Years ago saccharine was said to be safe and now reasearch has found that it can cause cancer. Aspatame isn't much better so now there is Splenda. Each is/contains a chemical and can't really be good for you but people use it daily.
I do take care of my health. I exercise daily and watch what I eat. I admire you for taking an interest in your health. I think everyone should take a greater interest in their health and how their actions affect the environment; however a person also needs to put things in perspective.
We are constantly bombarded by new research etc. Things change all the time. You can't go around believing everything you hear. Quite frankly, a lot of this research etc is done by drug companies who have a product to sell so of course the research would be skewed towards their product. I'm not saying silver fillings may not be harmful; however, in the greater scheme of things, there are much worse things around. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/26/2006 5:53:57 AM | BTW I did not say that the instruments were made of mercury.
I was wondering if the dentist would have to get rid of his instruments since they would now have traces of your mercury fillings on it?
For example... people with nut allergies can't use utensils if it was used in a nut product previously because of residual traces being left on the utensil.
I'm just wondering if their cleaning process can eliminate all traces of the mercury? | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/26/2006 10:30:31 PM | I did not specifically ask for your opionion. However, you are certainly free to give it. When you do give it though, it should be given with politeness and respect to people here on this board. Not given in a mean and condescending way to belittle another persons views or the person himself.
There is a regulating body for organic foods. Ever heard of USDA organic? I don't think a company can get away with selling a food that claims to be organic and free of pesticides, added hormones and anti-biotics if it carries the USDA Organic certification. Lots of organic products carry these claims on them. If they are found to be untrue, that company gets in trouble for it.
Grass fed meat alone is not good enough, it must be grass-fed and organic. That way they can make the claim to be pesticide free and there are companies that sell organic grass-fed beef that make the claim to be free of pesticides. If they are found to be lying, they get in trouble too. Why should I have to provide proof to you that they are not lying?
Yes, I am well aware that artificial sweeteners are not good for you(so I have heard). I don't use aspartame or splenda as I have read articles about them which claim they are unhealthy. I don't use them at all. If I am going to use a sweetener in something, I use a natural sweetener, organic stevia. Its much better than sugar because it does not cause tooth decay like sugar does.
I am glad to hear you do care about your health. And thankyou for admiring me for taking care of my health. I appreciate that.
I am well aware that one needs to be skeptical and not believe everything we read or hear. You've got to do research on your own. Don't take the governments word on something as gospel(or anyone else's word). Its good to research things and find out what others(in and out of the country)are saying and why they say it. For instance, in the past, the FDA has claimed harmful things to be safe which were later removed when they were found to be harmful to people.
And I agree very much with you that drug companies fund alot of research and want try to bend the results to their favor, and I have read they have friends on the inside of the FDA(reading testimony of a whistleblower).
I also agree there are things worse than mercury fillings, perhaps those microwave bags of popcorn which contain teflon in them, which the EPA recently found to be carcinogenic and wanted teflon banned. How harmful mercury fillings are, remains to be seen. I did talk to one dentist who'd been in the business over 25 years, and he told me there is talk of a large class action lawsuit in the works because of mercury fillings being harmful to people, and a bill in congress (HR 4011 if I remember right)to ban mercury fillings nationwide. I recently wrote to my congressman asking him to vote in favor of the bill. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/26/2006 10:37:34 PM | | I don't know if a dentist would get rid of an instrument that was used to remove a mercury filling. The IAOMT has a standard for mercury filling removal, but I have not read all of the entire list of standards used. My guess would be that they thoroughly clean an instrument used to remove mercury fillings at the very least(if you find otherwise, I'd be glad to hear what you have to say). And if this procedure will only be done once on me and never again, if there happened to be some minute trace of mercury on an instrument used to remove my mercury fillings, I could live with that. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/28/2006 5:11:45 AM | And if this procedure will only be done once on me and never again, if there happened to be some minute trace of mercury on an instrument used to remove my mercury fillings, I could live with that.
hummmm.......very interesting
FYI:
1) Actually by posting this thread, you did ask for my opinion.
2) I did not ask you to prove anything to me. My point was that you cannot be certain that what the label says is fact since you can't actually see how the product is produced.
3) Just because a company can get caught and "get in trouble" does not mean they are not going to do something that brings in millions of $$$$.... they have to get caught and it has to be proven in court. Reality is... it takes years to prove and they can rake in the cash in the mean time. ... that's why they hire so many lawyers and they have the money to fight for so long. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 6/30/2006 1:33:57 PM | Quantum Energy Health Centres of Canada
QEHCC.com
Delicious Recipe To Remove Heavy Metals
Heavy metal poisoning is rampant. It is a major cause of hormonal imbalances, cancer, thyroid problems, neurological disturbances, learning problems, depression, food allergies, parasites, etc. etc.
Coriander Chelation Pesto
4 cloves of garlic
1/3 cup of Brazil nuts (Selenium)
1/3 cup of sunflower seeds (Cysteine)
1/3 cup of pumpkin seeds (Zinc, Magnesium)
2 cups of packed fresh coriander (Cilantro, Chinese parsley) (Vitamin A)
2/3 cup of flaxseed oil (EFA’s)
4 tablespoons of lemon juice (Vitamin C)
2 tsp of dulse powder (Iodine)
2 Dashes of Bragg’s Liquid Aminos or Japanese Miso which is healthier
Process the coriander and flaxseed oil in a blender until the coriander is chopped. Add the garlic, nuts and seeds, dulse and lemon juice and mix until the mixture is finely blended into a paste. Add a squirt of Bragg’s to taste and blend again. Store in dark glass jars if possible. It freezes well, so purchase coriander in season and fill enough jars to last through the year.
Coriander has been proven to chelate toxic metals from our bodies in a relatively short period of time. Combined with the benefits of the other ingredients, this recipe is a powerful tissue cleanser. Two teaspoons of this pesto daily for three weeks is purportedly enough to increase the urinary excretion of mercury, lead and aluminum, thus effectively removing these toxic metals from our bodies.
We can consider doing this cleanse for three weeks at least once a year. It is delicious on toast, baked potato and pasta.
Mercury Posioning
The problem is Mercury simply "Loves Sulfur" too much. So much so, that it will compete with other molecules for Sulfur and can usually "steal" Sulfur out of other molecular structures, in effect killing them. Mercury (Hg) interacts with brain tubulin and disassembles microtubules that maintain neurite structure. If it can't steal Sulfur, Mercury will bond to the Sulfur atom the best it can. This usually prevents the molecule from performing its function. Sulfur is part of our blood cells as well as many other proteins and enzymes. Many systems in our bodies are very much like today's Industrial Assembly Lines. If one work station stops all function and the whole system can backup or get very crazy.
Enzymes perform very specialized functions within our body's chemical assembly line. It shouldn't be very hard to visualize the whole process going out of whack if someone doesn't show up for work. Imagine cars coming off the assembly line without tires, or headlights, or oil light sensors, or fuses — you get the idea.
From our viewpoint, Enzymes are really "Hyper" and productive little fellows. In the lab, they have been clocked doing Two Million Reactions Per Minute ! (2,000,000 /min.) That means in a 24-hour period, they can do their job 2,880,000,000 times. (Two Billion, Eight Hundred Eighty Million Reactions per Day)
There are about 1,501,430,636,558,496,585,414 atoms in 0.5 grams of mercury. Each and every atom of mercury is able to disable an enzyme or other critical protein in your body. Over ten years, if the body fails to remove this mercury, a lot of damage can be done. Unfortunately, mercury has ways of "hiding in the body" and can be quite hard to remove.
This 0.5 grams of mercury can produce a potential loss of 4,324,120,233,288,470,165,993,719,156,572 chemical reactions in your body. (Based on lab examples / over 10 years) That number of seconds equals 137,023,101,670,864,392,919,414.6 years !
As you can see, it is quite difficult to grasp the scale on which all these chemical reactions are occurring, and we are only considering one source of mercury and this one toxic atom.
Mercury intoxication often produces a psychotic state resulting in hyper-excitability. The expression 'Mad as a Hatter' originates from the hat-makers of the 19th century who were chronically exposed to mercury compounds used in making felt and beaver hats. Mercury was also used to preserve leather and the furs for coats.
Antibodies contain sulfur and are therefore attacked by mercury — thereby destroying the body's natural disease defense system.
[ * an•ti•bod•y n. A protein substance produced in the blood or tissues in response to a specific antigen, such as a bacterium or a toxin. Antibodies destroy or weaken bacteria and neutralize organic poisons, thus forming the basis o | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/1/2006 11:59:19 PM | You are not paranoid...
Consider the following: (Google the following terms)
Cell phone and 2 GHZ home phones are extremly dangerous to your health:
http://www.rense.com/general72/cellcook.htm
Mercury is not a health elixer yet we let dentists put amalgam fillings in our mouths and doctors to give us injections containing thimesoral.
Flouride classified as a toxic waste product by the EPA is in our water and tooth paste.
Aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde yet it is in thousands of products and is in the process of being outlawed in parts of Europe.
If you become ill and need pain medication your doctor will not be very aggresive in the treatment because he wants to stay out of prison as the Justice department dictates your medical care not your doctor. The same goes with your treatment if you are ADD
If you have a condition that is made better or more tolerable by marijuania the same applies you doctor is more concerned about the authorities than he is about good medicine.
YOU are the only one watching out for your health. The government seems to be doing it's best to kill us all off. Do the best you can in this crazy world. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/4/2006 12:18:38 PM | If you had mercury fillings put in when you were a child, after you reach 30 you can get them all out and still never get rid of all the mercury ions in your body. The dentists and MDs know and have known about the ill effects of mercury for a LONG time, the dentist starts the process of ill health when we are kids and the MDs cash in on the aftereffects all the way to the coffin! The ADA fought tooth and nail for decades saying mercury fillings would not hurt a person,how come these educated men never figured out that putting one of the deadliest elements on earth into a persons mouth would be harmful? Answer: They knew. They know. They got rich!
"Mercury depresses the neurotransmitters' uptake of dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine, and nor epinephrine."
-Ellen Hodgson Brown & Richard Hansen
-The Key to Ultimate Health
Anyways, if you would like to get as much as you can out of your bod, go to Google and do a search for "Metal Magic" its from Jon Barron and will chelate the mercury and lead,ect. right out of you. Have a nice day! | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/4/2006 12:25:38 PM | From one of my favorite websites:
"All dentist except a handful are on my list of the most murdering bunch of creeps in the Nation. My dentist was trained 20 years ago in a VERY Famous College that ALL of the metals and drugs used are known to cause cancer, BUT and this is a VERY HUGE BUT, He was told, don't worry, your profession FEEDS the MDs we are teaching down the road.
The dentist gets our little kids and sets them up for cancer that provides million dollar homes for the MDs. The dentist are a sick BUNCH, They all know what they do!
The teeth are a very personal choice that you have to do allot of research on, because once they are gone, they are gone, I decided Dr. Hulda Clark's advanced cancer book was the best info. Depending on the level of health you desire, depends on what you will have to do with metals in your body. I chose to pull all of mine, a difficult decision, but it was a must in my situation and I do not regret it.
You need a Dr. Clark advanced cancer book and follow the dental rules, word for word. I read all the dental books by the best and Dr. Clark has the best advice for the buck. If you have $2,000 per tooth, you can save most of them, but us poor folk can't invest that kind of money. The motto is, do not let a tooth put you in the grave. I see the dentist as the worse of the lot, they are trained to get our children into the system.
By the way, how about that cement that they glued crowns or even white plastics with and my dentist told me that all the numb shots have the cancer warning on the label, etc. We have to face the facts that all dental problems are a sign of poor health. I consider myself an expert, I had all crowned teeth and 12 root canals, I grew up on a dairy farm and drank that milk and my teeth were history. When I decided to become healthy, the teeth had to all go and am I ever glad they did, but you will always miss the real teeth and pulling them shortens your life also, it is a choice that everyone has to make on their own, but my warning is, if you have dental metals of any kind do not attempt to become healthier, you will just pull more and more metallic poison ions out of those teeth and deposit metals in all your tissues. Hansen is the best dentist and even he states one bad tooth is like a hole in your boat, you will bail until you sink.
I would make a goal and seek that goal one day at a time. It took me 3 years to have all my teeth pulled, that was my goal. If you don't have a goal, you have no future. taking drugs etc., makes sure you don't think abut the future.
Depending on where you live, mercury is a lifetime problem. Dentally most dentist don't remove it all, they take the large parts and cover the tooth with plastics that may be almost as bad as metals. Either way there is glue and chemicals as well as the poisons they use to numb with.
Naturally you need the metals out of your mouth first, they are insurance so they can keep control of your habits. REMOVE the traps and you will be free. Ignore the traps and you will never be free and to never know freedom is a sad lot for the slave.
My dentist crowned 100% of my teeth over a 10 year period, after all, I had insurance, you know how that TRAP goes! The papers said I got gold crowns. Then I read in Clark's book that the dentist are ALL LIARS and the Insurance companies play the death game with them. Her book said odds were I had zero gold crowns and that odds are, my crowns were nickel!
I ripped the 50 pages of her book out and gave to my OLD DENTIST, the PILLAR CHRISTIAN of our little town. He tells me, "I never used a precious metal in my career as a dentist!". He said "I agree, with the info you provided me and suggested I fly to Arkansas and have them all Pulled!" WHAT A CREEPY **stard!
He lives in a multi-million house and took my insurance company for over $15,000 and cost me all my teeth and tons of pain and suffering over the years. I found an honest Dentist and had all my teeth pulled. I agree with Dr. Clark 100% that you should not let a tooth put you in a box. I also see that most all miscarriages are caused by dental metals. I know one woman that miscarried 9 times and never had 1 child live. I said PLEASE allow me to see your mouth, she showed me 23 mercury filings.
MY dentist offered to pull all her teeth and make dentures FREE of charge, because how much more suffering can a human suffer than to loose 9 babies???? You know what, this 33 year old woman refused the free help. To accept this as fact, would make her accept that her act of going to that dentist was the reason her babies all died and she could not handle any truths, this is a result of massive mercury poisoning, poisoned people have no will.
An example of tooth mercury. A scientist took a measurement of a 10 acre lake, he then threw a mercury filling in this lake and came back later and did the same test, the new test showed enough mercury that the EPA could condemn the lake if he turned it in. This scientist is a high powered player today and gets millions of dollars in grant money for the college he works out of. When he wrote his paper on this experiment, his funding was pulled for the first time in his life. he is a friend of my dentist or I would have never heard this story as the man apologized (kept it quiet) to keep his job and his money!!!!!!!!!
Once the dental is being cleaned up or done, then you can kill the enemy, and start reproducing new red blood cells and your own blood will make new tissues and a whole new you!"
No matter if you believe everything written above or not, something is going on! | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/4/2006 5:39:10 PM | I have heard of dentists loosing their dental licenses for warning thier patients and refusing to use almalgum.
Its the same with doctors that treat pain aggressivly as they are likely to loose ther medical licenses.
The main reason for government licensing of professions IMHO is to make sure that the profession toes the government line..... | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/6/2006 11:45:26 PM | I understand it's the fumes that are poisonous. The liquid and solid isn't, or so I've been told. I sincerely doubt that you'd get enough mercury in your mouth to be poisonous otherwise people'd be falling over right and left.
Perhaps SOME mercury is absorbed and it may have trace affects on your system but unless you've already got issues, it's probably nothing to worry about. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/7/2006 10:10:56 AM | No offense, but people ARE falling over left and right. Heart disease, cancer and doctors(from failed operations to allergic reactions from taking pharma meds) are the top 3 causes of death in this country(USA)....Doctors number 3? Something is really wrong here. Are these the same doctors telling us that mercury fillings have been ok? Most of them, yes! I'm not even sure they use mercury in fillings anymore....wonder why not? Oh yeah, thats right, the lawsuits against the ADA,well, good luck with that..... do a Google search on just how toxic mercury is,in liquid or solid form, then you will understand how mercury ions can cripple a persons immune system for life. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/7/2006 11:20:29 AM | otherwise people'd be falling over right and left.
We are a very sick society the cancer rate is something like 500 times higher than it was in the early 1900's.
Disorders like autism are exploding and 10 to 20 times the rates they were 70 years ago.
almalgum filllings are just one of many causes for our sick condition. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/7/2006 11:33:12 AM |
Cell phone and 2 GHZ home phones are extremly dangerous to your health:
http://www.rense.com/general72/cellcook.htm
Any actual evidence? The site makes a lot of assertions, but doesn't give you any evidence, and makes several claims that cannot possibly have any basis in fact (ie. that a tumor will only develops decades after exposure.) They also make the claim that celphones "cook" eggs. Again, they provide no cite for this information. Aside from which, everything they describe as happening to the egg ("After 25 minutes, however, the egg shell started to become hot and at 40 minutes, the surface of the egg became hard and bristled. Researchers found the protein in the egg had become solid although the egg yolk was still in liquid form. After 65 minutes, the whole egg was well cooked.") is consistent with exposure to heat. They provide no evidence that this is in anyway resulting from the 'dangerous radiation'. And what researchers did this? When did they do this? What brand of celphone did they use? Has this been replicated by anybody and subject to peer review? What controls were used? Really, an elementary school science fair can do better.
Oh, and I rather like this quote:
"Children should be forbidden from cell phone use because they still grow their brains and are particularly vulnerable to radiation."
These are the people you rely on for health advice?
Mercury is not a health elixer yet we let dentists put amalgam fillings in our mouths...
Do you understand the different between mercury,annd mercury amalgam fillings? The Quackwatch article will explain it in far better detail than I could, and uses an excellent example (hydrogen in H2O), to explain to someone who might not have a background in chemistry, why the mercury in fillings isn't the health danger that mercury alone would be. In fact, it's an excellent site, and it wouldbe well worth your time to peruse the articles contained in it.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mercury.html
... and doctors to give us injections containing thimesoral.
I split up the above statement, because while thimerosal (I'm assuming that is what you actually meant), is a derivative of mercury, they really have nothing to do with mercury amalgam fillings. Again, I'm going to refer you to Quackwatch's article, as there really is a wealth of information on the subject. All of the cites are contained within the article, the abstracts of which are available on PubMed. Long story short, thimerosal isn't a health risk.
Flouride classified as a toxic waste product by the EPA is in our water and tooth paste.
Do you have a cite for this? Any source for your information?
To paraphrase Paracelsis, "The poison is in the dose." It other words, the levels at which fluoride becomes toxic, FAR exceed therapeutic levels.
A couple links for you:
The ADA: http://gsa.ada.org/search?q=fluoride&site=ADAorg_Collection&client=ADAorg_FrontEnd&proxystylesheet=ADAorg_FrontEnd&output=xml_no_dtd&proxyreload=1&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0&btnG=Search
Quackwatch (yes, I love this site):
http://www.quackwatch.org/03HealthPromotion/fluoride.html
Aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde yet it is in thousands of products and is in the process of being outlawed in parts of Europe.
Again, any cite for this information?
From MIT:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1998/aspartame-0916.html
FDA statement:
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/ANS00772.html
http://www.greenfacts.org/aspartame/index.htm
Go ahead, search the medical journals.
As for the rest of your post... It's not even worth responding to. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/7/2006 11:37:49 AM |
We are a very sick society the cancer rate is something like 500 times higher than it was in the early 1900's.
Disorders like autism are exploding and 10 to 20 times the rates they were 70 years ago.
almalgum filllings are just one of many causes for our sick condition.
Any cite for this information? Do you just make this stuff up?
No offense, but people ARE falling over left and right. Heart disease, cancer and doctors(from failed operations to allergic reactions from taking pharma meds) are the top 3 causes of death in this country(USA)....Doctors number 3? Something is really wrong here. Are these the same doctors telling us that mercury fillings have been ok? Most of them, yes! I'm not even sure they use mercury in fillings anymore....wonder why not? Oh yeah, thats right, the lawsuits against the ADA,well, good luck with that..... do a Google search on just how toxic mercury is,in liquid or solid form, then you will understand how mercury ions can cripple a persons immune system for life.
Same as above. Any cite for this information? Aside from which, if you check the link I provided above, they explain in very easy to understand terms, the diffference between mercury, and mercury amalgam fillings. | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/7/2006 6:25:10 PM | Queen, some of your points I agree with, some I do not. After looking at your profile I can tell you are coming from a viewpoint that "may" be 180 degrees from my own. There is ALOT in alternative health that is plain crap,but the same is true of allopathic medicine. There are "quacks" on both sides and in the middle,where ever there is money to be made,there will be those stretching the truth or flat out breaking it just to make a buck.
Bennet of Quackwatch has been sued and lost a few times, and on the opposite side of the coin, some of the people he has gone after (Hulda Clark for starters) have richly deserved his scrutiny. Every time I see one of Dr. Hulda Clarks books with those titles that say "The cure for all Cancers"...."The cure for all Diseases",ect. I want to throw up. She has made millions off of peoples suffering,all the while she has known that her methods DO NOT help the sick in VERY basic ways(increasing red blood cell counts,for example).
As for Bennets ties to the FDA et al, this is a sticky area with many interconnecting players and the truth is extremely hard to discern when one is so far removed from the principal players. Frankly, I would rather spend my time and energies on helping people with methods that have been proven to work, and leave the politics to others! | |
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| Mercury amalgam(silver)fillings: harmful or harmless?
Posted: 7/8/2006 1:29:56 AM | You know how they say dentists are highly suicidal, well Mercury exposure is supposedly supposed to cause people to become suicidal.
"Reality is something is going to kill you at some point in time. Our food is genetically altered. Meat has hormones and antibiotics in it. The air we breath is polluted. The ozone layer has a hole. Really... are you going to stop breathing too?? Paranoia is not a good thing.
I need fillings in my teeth so I can eat. I can't use that new stuff since it bothers my teeth/gums. Honestly, I love to eat so I need my teeth. I guess I just have to live with the small possibility that my fillings might do me some harm.
I can walk out my front door and get hit by a car too but you know what, I have to leave my house to go to work. Heck, if I was to worry about all these trivial things, I might as well live in a bubble.
You poor thing... I hope you find your dentist soon. BTW I'm just wondering...would he have to get rid of his instruments after he takes out your silver fillings?? you know,... to remain truly mercury free..."
Yes dear but if I had to choose between, trying to cut out whatever I could, even if I couldn't everything I would.
It's called trying to stay healthy within logical bounds. After seeing how my Grandfather turned out, I definately think it's better to try to avoid any further self damage if possible.
I mean, my grandfather smoked, overate, drank too much pop, and didn't exrcise when he retired.
He's paying for it big time now. He can't walk because of a bad hip is bed ridden and had diabetes. He's 79 years old, if he didn't smoke, exercised, didn't drink too much pop, at less, exercised after retirement he would have still been alive and well but he wouldve probably been walking around with a kane instead. I know what I would choose.
That said I have a job that might kill me. I tried to get out and do something else but I wasn't able to so the only thing I can do is move up the ladder and get a cleaner job the damage has been done but that dosen't mean I won't try to do better If I can. I never would have worked where I work now If I knew beforehand though. Unfourtunately at my age I need the money if I can live independently. Though thats far different from a few teeth hurting when you eat. I got all my mercury fillings removed, I have sensitivity in some teeth but you know what I rather would live with that then the former.
I just worry over what I have control over. If I can't immediately change something I worry about what I can change. I don't expect perfect health or want to live forever but I advocate living more logically. | |
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