Fwd: Re: Profiting from Fear (of Dental Amalgams)- Health Facts And Fears

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--- " Boyd E. Haley " <behaley@...> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:13:18 -0400

> teresa <redhead60707@...>

> From: " Boyd E. Haley " <behaley@...>

> Subject: Re: Profiting from Fear (of Dental

> Amalgams)- Health Facts And Fear

>

> : Either this dentist is mathematically

> challenged or he is mercury

> toxic and unable to do simple math.

>

> For example, if his filling was a single gram in

> size (not at all an

> excessively large filling) then it would contain

> about 1/2 gram of mercury

> or 500,000 micrograms. If it released a very toxic

> level of 5 micrograms

> mercury per day it would take 100,000 days or 274.7

> YEARS to deplete his

> mercury. After 65 years, at 5 micrograms per day,

> he would have lost

> 118,300 micrograms or 23.7% of the original

> estimated 500,000

> micrograms. 80% of this mercury would have been

> absorbed by his body and

> depending on his ability to excrete this mercury, a

> good portion would be

> retained. Some estimates give the half-life of

> brain mercury as 27 years.

>

> It is well known that amalgams lose their structural

> integrity after many

> years due to the loss of the mercury. I don't know

> if he is telling the

> truth about the age of his amalgam and I don't know

> the size of his filling

> or if it is located on a chewing surface, but his

> math suffers greatly if

> he thinks most amalgams would fall out or disappear

> in normal human

> life-span due to the loss of loss of toxic mercury

> vapors that scientists

> like myself measure. Yet the loss of this small

> amount of mercury is the

> major contributor to human mercury body burden, much

> more so than the fish

> we eat. Consider if a person had an average size

> amalgam in each of their

> jaw teeth! What if we just looked at 8 fillings

> average, that would be 40

> micrograms of mercury vapor escaping into the oral

> cavity each day with 80%

> of that being absorbed by the body.

>

> This is the situation we live with, asking dental

> organizations and bogus

> organizations like the National Council Against

> Health Fraud telling the

> public amalgams are safe. This is why the EPA and

> National Academy of

> Sciences report that 8-10% of American women have

> such high mercury body

> burdens that put at risk any child they would give

> birth to of having

> neurological problems. Then the CDC states that 1

> of 6 American children

> have a neurological problem. Therefore, we have the

> problem, we have

> identified the cause (mercury from dentistry and

> vaccines) and yet we

> cannot do much about it because of the lobbying

> power of the American

> Dental Association and the ignorance of our

> legislators regarding the

> expertise of dental administrators and mercury

> toxicity. Dentists are not

> trained in toxicology or biochemistry or physiology

> to the extent needed to

> evaluate the long-term toxic effects their amalgam

> treatments are

> causing. It is like asking a house painter to

> evaluate the safety of

> mercury in house paint---the FDA didn't and removed

> mercury from house

> paint and they should do the same for dental

> amalgams.

>

> Yesterday, I read a quote by Dr. Rodney Mackert from

> the Medical College of

> Georgia Dental School who says the mercury in dental

> amalgams is unreactive

> and therefore safe. This has an element of truth,

> but it is like saying

> that " whiskey in the bottle " is non reactive and

> safe. But the whiskey

> does not stay in the bottle, just as the mercury

> does not stay in the

> amalgam (easily proven) and when they enter the body

> they have a toxic

> effect. Just as I have said in the past, debating

> the toxicity of dental

> amalgams with certain individuals and the ADA has

> been like having a 13

> year argument with the town drunk----and the analogy

> is quite to the point.

>

> Boyd Haley

>

>

> At 08:16 PM 8/15/05 -0700, you wrote:

> >I think that 65 year-old amalgam has done its

> >damage...this guy is full of crap....

> >

> >http://tinyurl.com/7vufv

> >

> >August 15, 2005

> >

> >Profiting from Fear (of Dental Amalgams)

> >

> >By Dr. Marvin Schissel

> >

> >The misguided anti-amalgam movement has been given

> new

> >life by the widespread but bogus claims associating

> >mercury with autism. Amalgams are dental fillings

> made

> >of mercury, silver, and other metals. They have

> been

> >used over a century and a half; millions, perhaps

> >billions have been placed in patient's mouths, and

> no

> >valid evidence has ever been unearthed of harm to

> >anyone. But health frauds and quacks continue their

> >assault on the public, and misinformation spreads.

> Sad

> >to relate, there are dentists willing to exploit

> these

> >unfounded fears.

> >

> >The facts of the matter are clear: amalgam fillings

> >are safe, and amalgam, properly used, is the most

> >practical, durable, and long-lasting filling

> material

> >for the back teeth. The anti-amalgamists claim that

> >considerable mercury from these fillings leaches

> out

> >into the mouth, causing harm. Obviously, were that

> >true amalgams would not last as long as they do (I

> >still have an amalgam in my mouth that my father

> >placed nearly sixty-five years ago!).

> >

> > , DDS, president of the American

> Academy

> >of Cosmetic Dentistry, was recently quoted as

> saying

> >that if he were at risk for infection (aren't we

> >all?), he would want to " boost my immune system " by

> > " purging all metals from my mouth. " Statements like

> >this produce the erroneous implication that

> amalgams

> >somehow impair the immune system. He also said that

> >amalgams were popular because they were so easy to

> >use: " We can put it in the mouth when the mouth is

> >wet, and it doesn't take an advanced technique. "

> But

> >amalgams must be placed in a dry field maintained

> by

> >cotton rolls or rubber dam. An amalgam placed in a

> >saliva-contaminated field is less likely to

> succeed.

> >This dentist, like many others, offers his patients

> >removal and replacement of amalgams, one quarter of

> >the mouth at a time. " Over time, your whole mouth

> will

> >be upgraded, " he says. But the removal of sound

> >fillings and their replacement with inferior

> material

> >is not an upgrade.

> >

> >The American Dental Association (ADA) affirms the

> >safety of amalgam. So do major dental organizations

> >worldwide. But the ill-advised opposition maintains

> >that the ADA has a " vested economic interest " in

> >amalgams. The slightest reflection should show how

> >foolish this is. Practicing dentists, from an

> economic

> >point of view, would welcome any proof that

> amalgams

> >were harmful. This would enable them to greatly

> profit

> >by removing amalgams and making more expensive

> >replacements. Integrity prevents dentists from

> doing

> >this -- but, evidently, not every dentist.

> >

> >Dr. Marvin J. Schissel is a dentist and an advisor

> to

> >the American Council on Science and Health

> (ACSH.org,

> >HealthFactsAndFears.com), the National Council

> Against

> >Health Fraud, and the Committee for Scientific

> >Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

> >

> >

> >

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