Re: dental work

[Guest guest]

I have probably been hypothyroid since a

teen. I was just diagnosed coming up on 2 years now and I’m

43. I wasn’t doing great but after having a bunch of dental work

down (crowns, root canals and yes, some mercury filling removed), I went into a

downward spiral. I don’t know if it was necessarily the mercury or

just all of the trauma to the head and neck area.

Are they still allowing mercury to be used

in fillings? The dentist I go to now will not use them.

Kim in No Texas

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Subject: Re:

Re: low TSH level

Dr. Manzanero felt that the thyroiditis I had been having was due to

having all my mercury fillings removed several years ago.

steph

Re: low TSH level

Why did Manzanero think you needed chelation? Did he think you hadheavy metal toxicity? I go to his PA and she has never mentionedchelation to me. Do you have a lot of silver fillings? If so heavymetals could be a problem, but I would think replacing them beforechelation would be more appropriate. It could be adrenal problems. Pat

[Guest guest]

Unfortunately, the ADA partyline remains that amalgam/silver (aka

mercury based) fillings are safe:

http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/positions/statements/amalgam.asp

My personal opinion is that it's all to protect their a**es against

law suits like we're seeing finally happen for the mercury in the

vaccinations. The worst part of the ADA mercury position is that

there are still pediatric dentists that believe mercury is safe.

There have been dentists who have lost their licenses for telling

patients that mercury wasn't safe. I feel fortunate that the dentist

I use no longer uses mercury. He has tried to tell one of the

pediatric dentists in our area (that I unfortunately took my kids to

when they were younger) about the issues with mercury, but the guy

won't listen.

I've also had this discussion with medical doctors (including pediatricians) and

they too unfortunately believe the ADA partyline, likely because if they

question that, they also really need to question the vaccinations. And, yes,

they were supposed to remove all the mercury from childhood vaccinations several

years ago, but it has taken a while for the vaccines to be used up AND the flu

shots they still recommend for kids still contain thimerosol.

But, even then, vaccinations still contain lots of toxins, some of

which are listed in the Mark Starr book on Hypothyroidism as

negatively impacting our thyroids (bringing my point back on topic

for this list

B.

> Are they still allowing mercury to be used in fillings? The

dentist I go to

> now will not use them.

>

> Kim in No Texas

[Guest guest]

I was already feeling horrible and thought I had Chronic Fatigue syndrome when I

ahd the mercury removed.I was having horrible digestive stuff going on and

terrible fatigue....Having the mercury remoed did help with the digestive

problems, but not much with the fatiuge.

steph

RE: dental work

I have probably been hypothyroid since a teen.  I was just diagnosed coming up

on 2 years now and I’m 43.  I wasn’t doing great but after having a bunch

of dental work down (crowns, root canals and yes, some mercury filling removed),

I went into a downward spiral.  I don’t know if it was necessarily the

mercury or just all of the trauma to the head and neck area.

 

Are they still allowing mercury to be used in fillings?  The dentist I go to

now will not use them.