Interesting comments on amalgam from Mexican doctor

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Some interesting comments about amalgam from this Mexican doctor

Patty

----- Original Message -----

From: " M.D. " <dr_caury@...>

Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 3:11 PM

> My wife works in USA at a very big clinic, and works too at his private

> practice BUT in Mexicali Mexico. Two different worlds!

> Her opinion: At USA we are limited working in the patient, we need to

adhere

> to the ADA approved methods. In Mexico we are more free and we can apply

> more effective, new treatments.

> It is the same with Doctors... I do not have a California license for

> Medicine practice in USA BUT I have a Medical license in Mexico, I

remember

> when the Americans came to Mexico to buy Carbamazepine (tegretol) because

in

> USA was not approved for the epileptic seizures treatment. AT that obscure

> days, (I Think 25 years ago) in USA convulsions were treated with

> Phenobarbital, a barbiturate not really effective on ALL the kind of

> epilepsy, and produced a real, strong addiction. After 15 years (or more)

> used the Carbamazepine in Mexico, it was proved in USA, but, how many

> patients died from an status epilepticus just because that medicine was

not

> approved by the FDA? It is the same with dentists, they use in USA old,

> archaic treatments and diagnostic media, and in other countries (France,

> England, Mexico, Spain) dentist laugh about the way dentists in USA

works...

>

> P.S. In USA dentist still uses " amalgam " ... in Mexico almost all the

dentist

> have banned this...