How Poisonous Are Your Mercury Fillings?

[OliviaHadassah]

Mercury is the second most poisonous substance known to man, just behind plutonium. So how poisonous are your silver mercury fillings?

Well, it might interest you to know that when your dentist removes one, he must dispose of it in a special container as a hazardous waste, by law. Yet, he will probably tell you that it was perfectly safe while embedded in your mouth.

Apparently the EPA is more concerned about the dumpster's exposure to mercury than yours.

Below is an article from Dr. Al Sears (http://www.alsearsmd.com/content/) about the mercury we're chewing on.

(Or if you'd prefer, you'll find an outstanding video demonstrating the danger of mercury fillings at the end of this article, from The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.)

Here’s some news… sounds good at first… the US House of Representatives held a hearing in November about how dangerous mercury is. They heard testimony like one gram of mercury (roughly the size of a vitamin capsule) can poison 21 million gallons of water. That’s the volume of a good sized lake.

Here’s the bad part: They didn’t really do anything to stop the most damaging source- dentists.

Turns out they’re the third largest source of mercury pollution in the country but they’re different than industrial polluters because if you let them they’re going to put the mercury straight into your mouth!

The “silver” fillings dentists have been using for over 150 years are actually fifty percent mercury. Someone with a lot of these fillings could have enough mercury in their mouths to poison several lakes.

That hasn’t kept dentists from using them. In fact the American Dental Association still says they’re safe. And last month’s congressional hearing didn’t even take up the question of whether mercury fillings are dangerous to your health, only whether they do environmental damage.

This is shocking when you consider that we’ve known for years that mercury is an extremely powerful and dangerous poison. Mercury exposure can cause permanent damage to the central nervous system, kidneys, liver, and digestive tract. It causes irreversible hormonal imbalances. It’s also extremely harmful to the unborn.

Symptoms of mercury toxicity also include:

* hair, teeth, and skin loss
* sleep disturbances
* memory loss
* muscle weakness
* sweating
* tingling, burning, or pain
* high blood pressure
* rapid heart beat
* swelling

It is a fact that the action of chewing releases trace amounts of mercury from fillings into your mouth – with every bite. That kind of constant, low-level exposure may cause health problems.

While the government and the ADA ignore the issue, other groups have taken action. The Foundation for Toxic-Free Dentistry has compiled statistics from six studies on a total of 1,569 patients. The patients reported on their symptoms before and after their mercury amalgams were removed. These included everything from vision problems to depression. Most saw dramatic improvement once the fillings were gone.

If you need to get a filling put in, ask your dentist to use bonded resin ceramics. These are safe and tooth-colored, so they won’t even be noticeable.

And if you already have “silver” fillings in your mouth, have your dentist remove them.

Be sure to have someone who knows what they’re doing take them out. It can actually lead to more mercury in your system. And ask your dentist about safety procedures to insure that you’re not exposed to the mercury in the fillings during the removal process.

To help get rid of mercury, you can take chlorella, a form of dried algae. You can find it in most health food stores.

Take one 500 mg capsule per day initially. Because some people have a sensitivity to chlorella, you’ll want to pay attention if you start experiencing nausea or burping. This means your body can’t tolerate it and you should go for another option.

If you don’t have a sensitivity, work up slowly over one to two weeks to a dose of one teaspoon (ten tablets or capsules) per day until your mercury levels come down.

Fresh cilantro has also been shown to remove mercury from the body. About a teaspoon a day should work.

Finally, garlic is also a good option. Three cloves of fresh garlic per day should help.

Dr. Al Sears
(http://www.alsearsmd.com/content/)

*My Comments:

As Dr. Sears mentions, dentists are the third leading source of environmental mercury pollution, but they're actually the number one source of mercury exposure in humans.

There are numerous people who have recovered from chronic illnesses after having their fillings removed. I've noticed a good portion of the testimonials I've read have been recoveries from fibromyalgia, which is actually fluoride poisoning (another gift from the ADA) http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/fibromyalgia.html#cause.

Mercury causes the body to store larger amounts of fluoride, so it could be that ridding oneself of mercury fillings allows the body to release larger amounts of fluoride and facilitate recovery from fibromyalgia. That's just a theory of mine.

I'd like to emphasize what Dr. Sears said about finding the right dentist to remove your fillings. Make sure you find someone who uses the latest technique, because otherwise the mercury will leak and be absorbed into your system during the removal.

Dr. Swidler of Arizona is known in the US as a leading expert on this matter, and you can read the details of his meticulous procedure at http://www.medicinewheeldental.com/mercremoval.html. He and his assistant actually wear vapor masks to protect themselves during the removal, and his patients are given oxygen.

It's important to be sure you are in good health when you have your fillings removed, and as mentioned above by Dr. Sears, as well as by Health Ranger Mike Adams http://www.naturalnews.com/007851.html, make sure you take extra nutritional supplements to help your immune system handle the mercury. Dr. Sears says not everyone can tolerate chlorella, so I suggest trying Modifilan http://www.modifilan.com/, which will also bond with mercury and remove it from the body.

About half of all dentists in the US still use mercury fillings, and they believe based on what they were taught in school that it's perfectly safe being drilled into your head. The rest use the tooth-colored option mentioned above by Dr. Sears.

The number one cause of tooth loss is the consumption of fluoride, such as in drinking water. The best thing you can do to prevent cavities is to eat healthy, avoid sugar, and drink non-fluoridated water. This is even more important than dental care, which in excess is actually harmful to teeth.

Japanese researchers have invented a toothpaste that fills cavities while they're still at the microscopic phase. If it becomes a hit, it could help put an end to dentistry's mercury madness http://www.naturalnews.com/005254.html.

As promised, here is an alarming video about the reality of mercury fillings from The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/9ylnQ-T7oiA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/9ylnQ-T7oiA</a>

OVERDOSE on the Red Pill of Truth:

http://redpillreich.blogspot.com/

Olivia L. Worthy

[TruthBrigade]

FDA reconsidering safety of mercury fillings, but panel may be rigged from the start

Wednesday, December 15, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030741_mercury_fillings_FDA.html#ixzz18GlCI5ct

(NaturalNews) Mercury fillings are one of the greatest scams in the history of dentistry. They're intentionally and misleadingly named "silver fillings" so that people don't realize they're made of mercury, and when installed in teeth, they release mercury vapor every time a person chews on them (see video link below). Mercury vapor is then inhaled and absorbed into the body where it can cause neurological disorders, headaches, fatigue, sickness and may even be related to autism in children.

Mercury fillings are also just bad dentistry. They're an ancient technology used as far back as the U.S. Civil War. The metals in mercury fillings expand and contract with changes in temperature, causing micro-fractures in the teeth. They're not even bonded to teeth -- dentists simply cram the toxic mercury metal alloy into a cavity and hope it stays in place. It's cheap, it's crude, and it's ugly. But it has also been the mainstay of western dentistry for literally hundreds of years.

Quacks, skeptics and poison pushers all insist mercury is somehow safe
All the usual suspects insist mercury fillings are completely safe: TIME Magazine, the quack-busting critics who are quacks themselves, the ever-corrupt American Medical Association, FDA bureaucrats and of course the top officials of the dental industry. They acknowledge that mercury is a highly-toxic heavy metal that causes neurological damage, but they insist it's safe to put this metal in your mouth because somehow these metal fillings are impervious and won't release mercury into your body.

These are all the same people and groups who, by the way, insist that chemotherapy is safe, too. Radiation therapy is safe. Fluoride in water is safe. The mercury in vaccines is safe. BPA is safe. Pesticides are safe. GMOs are safe. Gosh, there's hardly a poison on the planet that has been declared safe by these nitwits. And they insist that mercury fillings are safe, too, because they insist it doesn't release mercury vapor.

They're claiming, in other words, that mercury fillings are actually made with adamantium. That's the fictional metal found in X-Men comic books. Wolverine's claws are made out of adamantium, too. It's the only metal in the world that's completely impervious to disintegration or damage, as any teenage boy will gleefully tell you.

And that would all be great if we lived in the world of comic books. Sadly for all those dental patients who have been harmed by mercury fillings, in the real world mercury fillings crack, fracture and come loose. And even when they stay in place, they still off-gas toxic mercury vapor.

See the video evidence yourself
You can watch a fascinating video of a mercury filling off-gassing vapor in real time on NaturalNews.TV:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=4...

This video was created by the IAOMT, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (www.IAOMT.org). It shows massive amounts of mercury vapor off-gassing from an extracted tooth. This level is far above any "safe" level set by the FDA or the EPA.

People suffer under the toxic effects of mercury amalgam fillings
And that explains why people at Tuesday's FDA hearing told the agency that mercury fillings destroyed the quality of their lives. One man suffered from fatigue and chronic sinus infections for 46 years before finally having the mercury removed. "I wouldn't have believed it would have caused a difference," he said. "It's absolutely amazing."

Another person testified, "I was vomiting every day for months." A parent added this startling bit of testimony: "My child now has 59 seizures a day…" (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010...)

No one denies mercury is extremely toxic
Mercury is, of course, a toxic heavy metal. As Wikipedia reports:

Case control studies have shown effects [from mercury exposure] such as tremors, impaired cognitive skills, and sleep disturbance in workers with chronic exposure to mercury vapor even at low concentrations in the range 0.7–42 ug/m3. A study has shown that acute exposure (4 – 8 hours) to calculated elemental mercury levels of 1.1 to 44 mg/m3 resulted in chest pain, dyspnea, cough, hemoptysis, impairment of pulmonary function, and evidence of interstitial pneumonitis. Acute exposure to mercury vapor has been shown to result in profound central nervous system effects, including psychotic reactions characterized by delirium, hallucinations, and suicidal tendency. Occupational exposure has resulted in broad-ranging functional disturbance, including erethism, irritability, excitability, excessive shyness, and insomnia. With continuing exposure, a fine tremor develops and may escalate to violent muscular spasms. Tremor initially involves the hands and later spreads to the eyelids, lips, and tongue. Long-term, low-level exposure has been associated with more subtle symptoms of erethism, including fatigue, irritability, loss of memory, vivid dreams, and depression.

But somehow, magically, when mercury is installed in your mouth as a mercury filling, all the dentists, doctors and FDA bureaucrats essentially insist that mercury is transmuted into a completely safe substance that poses no risk of harm to you or your children.

It's a ridiculous position, of course. It's almost as if the defenders of mercury were suffering from mercury poisoning themselves. One of the first side effects of mercury poisoning, after all, is insanity. And insanity means you're dissociated from reality, living in your own world of self-deception and often operating in a way that may harm yourself or others. That's a perfect description of the mercury filling defenders, who are the same "skeptics" who defend useless seasonal flu vaccines, chemotherapy, aspartame, MSG, and dangerous pharmaceuticals. Heck, there's not a deadly chemical on the planet these people don't want to see human beings consume, it seems.

But this argument over mercury fillings defies common sense. There is no reputable scientist who would insist that mercury is safe when it's outside your mouth. We've all been warned about the mercury in fluorescent lights (you have to dispose of them through special hazardous waste operations) and thermometers. We're all warned not to touch mercury because it might get absorbed into our skin. The EPA reveals that just a few grams of mercury can turn an entire lake into a toxic waste site, making the fish unsafe to eat.

The FDA used to even warn people not to eat fish because of all the mercury found in certain types of fish, but they yanked that recommendation when it became obvious that such logic would eventually have to extend to mercury fillings, too. And the FDA has long sought to protect mercury fillings, despite the scientific evidence that they are harming people.

And yet, despite all these warnings about how toxic mercury really is OUTSIDE your body, it's astonishing what happens once the mercury is installed INSIDE your body. Suddenly all the experts reverse their positions. Mercury is now magically safe! The fact that mercury has entered your mouth and now sits in your teeth is apparently a magical act that defies physics and chemistry. Suddenly, all the toxicity of mercury disappears, they claim, and it's perfectly safe to chew on.

But they're ignoring all the scientific evidence that mercury fillings cause neurological problems and may even promote Alzheimer's. There's a great page explaining all this on HolisticMed.com (http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/a...), which offers the following information:

1) Mercury Causes Damage to the Brains of Children

In February, 1998, a group of the world's top mercury researchers announced that mercury from amalgam fillings can permanently damage the brain, kidneys, and immune system of children.

2) Mercury Amalgam Fillings are Linked to Neurological Problems, Gastrointestinal Problems

The first large-scale epidemiological study of mercury and adverse reactions was recently completed and showed that of the symptoms looked at, there was a link seen to gastrointestinal problems, sleep disturbances, concentration problems, memory disturbances, lack of initiative, restlessness, bleeding gums and other mouth disorders.

3) Mercury / Alzheimer's Disease Connection Found

A study related to mercury and Alzheimer's Disease was recently completed by a team of scientists led by well-respected researcher Dr. Boyd Haley. They exposed rats to levels of mercury vapor diluted to account for size differences between humans and rats. The rats developed tissue damage "indistinguishable" from that of Alzheimer's Disease. Repeating the experiment showed the same results. Dr. Haley is quoted as saying "I'm getting the rest of my fillings taken out right now, and I've asked my wife to have hers replaced too." Also see: http://www.holistic-dentistry.com/a...

4) Amalgam Fillings Release Highly Toxic Elemental Mercury

Mercury is one of the most toxic substances known. The mercury release from fillings is absorbed primarily as highly toxic elemental mercury vapor.

5) Mercury Build Up in Brain, Organs and Breast Milk of Fetuses of Mothers With Amalgam Fillings

Mercury from fillings in pregnant women has been shown to cause mercury accumulation in brain, kidneys and liver of human fetuses (all of the areas tested). Studies have shown that mercury can be passed to infants from breast milk.

… read more at http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/a...

Battle over mercury fillings mirrors tactics of Big Tobacco
Today, the evil proponents of toxic mercury fillings are relying on many of the very same deception tactics once used by Big Tobacco in its decades-long cover-up of the dangers of smoking.

According to documents on the IAOMT website, the FDA may have already made up its mind about mercury fillings (they're safe, didn't ya know?) and is holding these hearings merely as a bit of public theater in order to create an illusion that they're actually concerned about the issue. Efforts have been made to minimize the testimony time of mercury filling opponents, and documents that opposed mercury fillings have been stripped off the FDA's website (http://iaomt.org/news/archive.asp?i...).

It's business as usual at the FDA, where the agency has been pushing toxic chemicals and deadly drugs onto the public for as long as anyone can remember. The science gets thrown out the window in all this because mercury fillings are a profit issue, and the FDA is very, very good at protecting the profits of large, powerful corporations and industries whose very existence depends on the continuation of the "great lies" of western medicine.

One of those great lies, of course, is the ridiculous idea that mercury is perfectly safe to place in the mouths of children, pregnant women and everyone else. In time, this lie will ultimately be exposed, and historians will refer to our present time as the "mercury age" of dentistry, where virtually the entire population was poisoned by dentists who were just too ignorant to know what they were doing.

But the truth of the matter is far different: They DO know mercury fillings are toxic. The scientific evidence is irrefutable. Modern dentists aren't ignorant on this issue -- they've just sold out the safety of their patients in order to make more money installing cheap, toxic and highly-profitable mercury fillings that they know are poisonous.

After all, in the world of modern medicine (and dentistry), safety never gets in the way of making a buck.

Where to learn more about the dangers of mercury fillings
Consumers for Dental Choice
www.ToxicTeeth.org

International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
www.IAOMT.org

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030741_mercury_fillings_FDA.html#ixzz18Gkl7pRr

[Nesaie]

I guess it's too late for me.  I have mercury fillings.  I know, after all these years, some of the mercury has broke off and gone into my body.

Once upon a time, a dentist wanted to replace them.  I didn't do it.  Now I know that the alternative is poisoned with BPA instead.  It doesn't appear that there is an alternative.

I guess the only alternative is to prevent cavities.  I personally think Weston A Price was on to something.  http://www.westonaprice.org/

BTW, anyone know of healthy ways of getting rid of mercury poisoning?  I was taking chlorela for a while, but I HATE pills so much, I just stopped.  I can't even take vitamins...I HATE pharma!  I have to get my vitamins from organic food.  I always remember to buy pretty colored veggies.

[TruthBrigade]

I guess it's too late for me.  I have mercury fillings.  I know, after all these years, some of the mercury has broke off and gone into my body.

Once upon a time, a dentist wanted to replace them.  I didn't do it.  Now I know that the alternative is poisoned with BPA instead.  It doesn't appear that there is an alternative.

I guess the only alternative is to prevent cavities.  I personally think Weston A Price was on to something.  http://www.westonaprice.org/

BTW, anyone know of healthy ways of getting rid of mercury poisoning?  I was taking chlorela for a while, but I HATE pills so much, I just stopped.  I can't even take vitamins...I HATE pharma!  I have to get my vitamins from organic food.  I always remember to buy pretty colored veggies.

Yeah, all my teeth were filled too...but I did check recently with a local dentist who does replace them and is actually aware of the dangers, but the compound he said they replace it with is a fluoride compound.  I can't remember the exact type, but it basically turned out to trading poisons for thousands of dollars............

As far as cleaning out the poison, I would suggest modifilan, ( http://truthbrigade.com/modifilan/ )which is what saved my life, got me clean enough to start walking again and heal.  It is a type of seaweed which they designed for the chernobyl nuclear catastrophe victims.  The main ingredient is fucoidan and if you go to pubmed.gov you can do a search for it and see almost 900 published reports about what it can do, such as CURE cancer, AIDS and any other dis-ease people think they have.
Of course it is against the law for your doctor to tell you about it since they get paid by big pharma, not God.
Amazing how mother nature has become illegal, while the drugs they are pushing are perfectly legal and in some cases court ordered.
I also use a granulated kelp for seasoning as well as calcium bentonite clay which helps remove toxins.

Another one that will help is cilantro...nice fresh cilantro...

[Nesaie]

Great, we have a choice of poison #1, poison #2 or poison #3.  UGH!

I checked out your seaweed stuff, and it's in pill form.  That was my problem with the chlorella, which is also a seaweed.  Can't I just get seaweed in it's natural form?  I hate pills.  I can do seaweed.  Hell, I'd pick it up off the beaches around here if I know which kind to look for.  Seaweed has lot's of valuable nutrients.

[TruthBrigade]

Great, we have a choice of poison #1, poison #2 or poison #3.  UGH!

I checked out your seaweed stuff, and it's in pill form.  That was my problem with the chlorella, which is also a seaweed.  Can't I just get seaweed in it's natural form?  I hate pills.  I can do seaweed.  Hell, I'd pick it up off the beaches around here if I know which kind to look for.  Seaweed has lot's of valuable nutrients.

Actually modifilan is in capsules, but you can also get it in liquid form, but that's only recommended for people on their death bed.
You could always open the capsules, but it's not the best tasting.  :-)
Chlorella is good too, but it's fucoidan, the element in the brown seaweed that is responsible for the amazing healing benefits.
:-)
Check out pubmed.gov and put in fucoidan to see...
:-)

[Nesaie]

OK capsules aren't quite as bad.  I can do valarien (even if I can't spell) root and it tastes like dirt, but the capsule is't quite as bad.  But isn't medicine supposed to taste bad?  I had an old friend tell me that sometimes if the herbs she mixed together tasted too good, she'd throw something bitter into it.  Otherwise, the people wouldn't believe it was "medicine".

[TruthBrigade]

OK capsules aren't quite as bad.  I can do valarien (even if I can't spell) root and it tastes like dirt, but the capsule is't quite as bad.  But isn't medicine supposed to taste bad?  I had an old friend tell me that sometimes if the herbs she mixed together tasted too good, she'd throw something bitter into it.  Otherwise, the people wouldn't believe it was "medicine".

LOL  Well, you are tough taking valerian like that!  My choice is to make my medicine taste yummy.  I am not even close to being cool enough to take valerian plain!  LOL  I mix it in a tea with lavender and other herbs to soften it up.
Now where do you get valerian that tastes like dirt?  Mine smells like STINKY FEET! 
I guess that's what happens when you dry it, some compound I forget what it's called breaks down when you dry it to give it that smell................
PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!  :-)

But yes, I like the more gentle approach.  I don't think we need to suffer and can actually pamper ourselves while we heal!

[Nesaie]

Dang, you are so cool!

OK, so the thing with the valerian...I know I don't spell well...I was born addicted to valium, which comes from valerien root.  I asked my mom about it and, "the doctors said it was ok"

I was also born flat footed and had braces for a while.

Personally, I think my Grandma cured me of that.  But, it's only when my arches fall that I take valarien.

[TruthBrigade]

Dang, you are so cool!

OK, so the thing with the valerian...I know I don't spell well...I was born addicted to valium, which comes from valerien root.  I asked my mom about it and, "the doctors said it was ok"

I was also born flat footed and had braces for a while.

Personally, I think my Grandma cured me of that.  But, it's only when my arches fall that I take valarien.

Arches fall?  Have you thought about wearing inserts in your shoes?

From what I have heard  that has really helped people with problems like that.

I had braces too, my whole high school years, and after graduation.  It was shortly after that when I walked in to the dentist one day and said take these off now!
They said, well they are not done, your teeth are still crooked, I said, yeah, well you told me it would be two years, now it's 4...
So I have crooked teeth, who cares...I'm glad to have that metal out of my mouth.  :-)
I was modeling then and was tired of keeping my mouth closed all the time and not being able to smile...