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From: Jan (jdrew63929_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/25/04
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Date: 25 Jul 2004 01:50:36 GMT
>Subject: Re: "a windbag is afoot" (LONG)
>From: "Michele Simula" mikie72@libero.it
>Date: 7/24/2004 6:05 AM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <a1uMc.13420$OH4.244876@twister1.libero.it>
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>Jan, do answer my question, please.
>What are your fillings made of?
Visofil.
>And now, an excerpt from "Restorative Dentistry" written by Adriano Dallari
>and Laura Rovatti, Edizioni Martina, Bologna, published in 2000 in Italy.
>This english on-the-fly translation is mine, copyright 2000 by Martina
>Edizioni, Bologna, Italy
>IS AMALGAM TOXIC FOR MAN AND ENVIRONMENT?
>volume 1, chapter 1, page 12
>Isacsson (1997) writes that patients with many amalgam fillings do not show
>Hg rates in blood or urine significatively higher than those patiens
>without amalgam fillings.
He can writes what he pleases, however that is a proven lie.
If you are that far behind the times to believe that crap, you have a lot to
learn.
This has all been discussed before many times, it is nothing new.
There are many websitws of scientific proof. Here is just one of many.
http://home.swipnet.se/misac/forskning6.html#mercury
>The same Author states that Hg in the body mostly
>derives from what has been eaten, and the proof is that inhabitants of
>islands and of coasts, regular consumers of fish, show higher blood and
>urine mercury levels that the inhabitants of the internal part of the land,
indipendently from the presence of amalgam fillings (Tessore 1998).
This same author has no idea, sounds like the lies from organized dentistry.
http://www.lichtenberg.dk/mercury_vapour_in_the_oral_cavit.htm
According to WHO, the greatest source of mercury in
the body is our amalgam fillings.9.
http://www.cqs.com/toxicmetals.htm
The U.S. Center for Disease Control ranks toxic metals as the number one
environmental health threat to children, adversely affecting large numbers of
children in the U.S. each year and thousands in Florida(1-4). According to an
EPA/ATSDR assessment, the toxic metals lead, mercury, and arsenic are the top 3
toxics having the most adverse health effects on the public based on toxicity
and current exposure levels in the U.S.(1), with cadmium, chromium and nickel
also highly listed. Large numbers of people have been found to have allergic
conditions and immune reactive autoimmune conditions due to the toxic metals,
especially inorganic mercury and nickel(28,29).
==============================
The
dental profession and ADD have for a long time successfully hidden the fact
from
the public that most dental fillings contain a lot of mercury which is
extremely
toxic and known to cause many neurological conditions and birth defects.
The
U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances andDisease Registry(ATSDR) indicates that
mercury and lead cause more adverse health effects than any other toxic
substances.
The reasons that mercury escapes from amalgam fillings is due to
its negative vapor pressure and oralgalvanism of mixed metals. Mercury
vaporizes at room temperature and the vapor escapes from fillings readily when
you chew or brush your teeth.
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/article-toxicmetals.htm
Silver" amalgam fillings are the major source of inorganic (does not contain
carbon) mercury exposure in humans, while seafood and fish constitute our
largest exposure to organic mercury compounds. Amalgam fillings actually
contain approximately 50% metallic mercury, and they continuously release
mercury vapor during chewing, brushing, or when drinking hot beverages.
Studies have shown that exhaled air of subjects with amalgam filling contains a
significantly higher level of mercury than subjects without amalgams, and there
appears to be a direct correlation to the number of amalgam fillings and the
level of mercury found in both blood and urine.
2. The number one source of mercury in most people is amalgam dental
fillings, which leak dangerous levels of mercury- due to mercury's negative
vapor pressure and oral galvanism with other metals in the mouth. The level
of daily exposure commonly exceeds the U.S. EPA health guideline for daily
mercury exposure. (2,3,4)
http://www.springfieldadvocate.com/articles/dental.html
Autopsy studies in Sweden, Germany and the United States have also established
that people with amalgams have significantly more mercury in their brains and
kidneys than those without, and the mercury concentration increases with the
number of amalgams.
***Furthermore, the World Health Organization has stated that
amalgam fillings constitute the majority of mercury exposure for people with
amalgams -- more than every other mercury source combined.***
This finding has
been independently verified by the national insurance program Health Canada and
by the National Institutes of Dental Research.
Or in Ziff's words, "Mercury has been demonstrated as one possible cause of
Alzheimer's Disease, and the World Health Organization says that people with
amalgams get more mercury from their fillings than from all other sources
combined. Two plus two equals what? According to the ADA, it equals zero."
>(In the USA) The Dept. of Health and Human Service
A part of organized medicine and dentistry. I've heard it all before.
, back in 1995, reported
>the results of a research based on 500 publications, that excluded toxicity
>of amalgam fillings (Tessore 1998).
>The US Public Health Service published on April 1994 issue of JADA an
>article that comes to the same conclusions (Tessore 1998).
>The WHO, unitely to FDI, published in 1995 an article entitled "Consensus
>Statement on Dental Amalgam" that comes to the same conclusions.
Nope. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. See above.
>Notwithstanding this, the Swedish Government decided to ban amalgam (Fuzzi,
>1995), also if the majority of Swedish dentists agreed in considering low
>the risk of the utilization on amalgam (Windstrom, 1993).
>European Community seems to be wanting to impose to Sweden the rethinking of
>this statement, but Norway and Austria have annouced their intention of
>banning amalgam before 2000 yet.
>We think that the toxicity of amalgam on
>man is an unreal fact, and firmly reprove the true terrorism that media are
>making against it. Recalling the hypothesis, made by Baasch in 1996, and
>loved by homeopathisths, but never scientifically proved, that amalgam
maycause multiple sclerosis, appears to us very little responsible behaviour.
The definitition of Chronic Mercury toxicity also called micromercurlism is
caused by low doses of mercury vapors inhaled over extended periods of
time.These vapors result in a neurological symptoms.
According to OSHA "symptoms of chronic mercury toxicity cannot be
distinguished from Multiple Sclerosis "
The information contained in the current article is derived from an article by
Thomas Levy, M.D., of Colorado Spring, Colorado (Extraordinary Science,
April-June 1994).
Multiple sclerosis?
The first mercury fillings were placed in teeth in France shortly before the
original description of multiple sclerosis (MS) appeared around 1835. In its
original description, MS was attributed to the suppression of sweat. We know
today that sweat induction is one of the best ways to eliminate mercury from
the body's stores.
Dr. Hal Huggins ("Resources," Page 12) has been consistently witnessing
improvement in MS patients undergoing amalgam removal, for many years now. This
improvement is seen in symptoms and in laboratory tests in 80-85% of his
patients. People who had become wheelchair bound recently are walking again.
One can call this the "anecdotal" but it doesn't matter. True science is not
the placebo-controlled double-blind study, but a comparison of a subject before
and after treatment, in my opinion.
Look upa utoimmune diseases and conditions. I have posted numerous websites all
about mercury and MS.
>inorganic (that of amalgam), is not
>depleted by the body in 24-48 hours.
Tell me about it. It takes YEARS to rid the body of mercury,,,,,,,,,,,FROM
AMALGAMS.
Educate yourself.
It is estimated that the average individual, with eight biting-surface mercury
fillings, is exposed to a daily dose uptake of approximately 10 micrograms
mercury per day from dental fillings.19 Select individuals may have daily doses
10 times higher (100 micrograms per day) because of factors which exacerbate
the mercury vaporization. Some of these factors are: frequency of eating,
chronic gum chewing, chronic tooth grinding behavior (usually during sleep),
the chewing pattern of the individual, consumption of hot foods and drinks,
mouth and food acidity.16 Corroborating human autopsy evidence20-22 showed that
brain and kidney tissues contained significantly higher mercury in individuals
who had mercury fillings. Furthermore, the concentration of brain mercury in
the subjects with mercury fillings correlated with the number of these fillings
present.
http://tinyurl.com/3bp8f
1: Adv Dent Res. 1992 Sep;6:110-3. Related Articles, Links
Side-effects: mercury contribution to body burden from dental amalgam.
Reinhardt JW.
Department of Operative Dentistry, University of Iowa College of Dentistry,
Iowa City 52242.
The purpose of this paper is to examine and report on studies that relate
mercury levels in human tissues to the presence of dental amalgams, giving
special attention to autopsy studies. Until recently, there have been few
published studies examining the relationship between dental amalgams and tissue
mercury levels. Improved and highly sensitive tissue analysis techniques have
made it possible to measure elements in the concentration range of parts per
billion. The fact that mercury can be absorbed and reach toxic levels in human
tissues makes any and all exposure to that element of scientific interest.
Dental amalgams have long been believed to be of little significance as
contributors to the overall body burden of mercury, because the elemental form
of mercury is rapidly consumed in the setting reaction of the restoration.
Studies showing measurable elemental mercury vapor release from dental amalgams
have raised renewed concern about amalgam safety. Mercury vapor absorption
occurs through the lungs, with about 80% of the inhaled vapor being absorbed by
the lungs and rapidly entering the bloodstream. Following distribution by blood
circulation, mercury can enter and remain in certain tissues for longer periods
of time, since the half-life of excretion is prolonged. Two of the primary
target organs of concern are the central nervous system and kidneys.
Publication Types:
Review
Review, Tutorial
PMID: 1292449 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://tinyurl.com/2ld6k
J Alzheimers Dis. 2003 Jun;5(3):189-95. Related Articles, Links
Apolipoprotein E genotyping as a potential biomarker for mercury neurotoxicity.
Godfrey ME, Wojcik DP, Krone CA.
Bay of Plenty Environmental Health Clinic, Tauranga, New Zealand.
godfrey@wave.co.nz
Apolipoprotein-E (apo-E) genotyping has been investigated as an indicator of
susceptibility to heavy metal (i.e., lead) neurotoxicity. Moreover, the apo-E
epsilon (epsilon)4 allele is a major risk factor for neurodegenerative
conditions, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). A theoretical biochemical basis
for this risk factor is discussed herein, supported by data from 400 patients
with presumptive mercury-related neuro-psychiatric symptoms and in whom apo-E
determinations were made. A statistically relevant shift toward the at-risk
apo-E epsilon4 groups was found in the patients p<0.001). The patients
possessed a mean of 13.7 dental amalgam fillings and 31.5 amalgam surfaces.
This far exceeds the number capable of producing the maximum identified
tolerable daily intake of mercury from amalgam. The clinical diagnosis and
proof of chronic low-level mercury toxicity has been difficult due to the
non-specific nature of the symptoms and signs. Dental amalgam is the greatest
source of mercury in the general population and brain, blood and urine mercury
levels increase correspondingly with the number of amalgams and amalgam
surfaces in the mouth. Confirmation of an elevated body burden of mercury can
be made by measuring urinary mercury, after provocation with
2,3,-dimercapto-propane sulfonate (DMPS) and this was measured in 150 patients.
Apo-E genotyping warrants investigation as a clinically useful biomarker for
those at increased risk of neuropathology, including AD, when subjected to
long-term mercury exposures. Additionally, when clinical findings suggest
adverse effects of chronic mercury exposure, a DMPS urine mercury challenge
appears to be a simple, inexpensive procedure that provides objective
confirmatory evidence. An opportunity could now exist for primary health
practitioners to help identify those at greater risk and possibly forestall
subsequent neurological deterioration.
PMID: 12897404 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://tinyurl.com/2h6y4
Altern Med Rev. 2000 Jun;5(3):209-23. Related Articles, Links
Environmental medicine, part three: long-term effects of chronic low-dose
mercury exposure.
Crinnion WJ.
Healing Naturally, 11811 NE 128th St., Suite 202, Kirkland, WA 98034, USA.
Mercury is ubiquitous in the environment, and in our mouths in the form of
"silver" amalgams. Once introduced to the body through food or vapor, mercury
is rapidly absorbed and accumulates in several tissues, leading to increased
oxidative damage, mitochondrial dysfunction, and cell death. Mercury primarily
affects neurological tissue, resulting in numerous neurological symptoms, and
also affects the kidneys and the immune system. It causes increased production
of free radicals and decreases the availability of antioxidants. It also has
devastating effects on the glutathione content of the body, giving rise to the
possibility of increased retention of other environmental toxins. Fortunately,
effective tests are available to help distinguish those individuals who are
excessively burdened with mercury, and to monitor them during treatment.
Therapies for assisting the reduction of a mercury load include the use of
2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) and 2,3-dimercato-1-propanesulfonic acid
(DMPS). Additional supplementation to assist in the removal of mercury and to
reduce its adverse effects is discussed.
Publication Types:
Review
Review, Tutorial
PMID: 10869102 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://tinyurl.com/2gnwl
: Br Dent J. 1997 May 24;182(10):373-81. Related Articles, Links
The future of dental amalgam: a review of the literature. Part 4: Mercury
exposure hazards and risk assessment.
Eley BM.
Periodontal Department, King's College School of Medicine & Dentistry, London.
This is the fourth article in a series of seven on the future of dental
amalgam. It first describes toxic mercury hazards from all sources of exposure
including dental amalgam. It begins by considering the many problems in
accurately estimating daily mercury intakes from these sources. It then
describes potential mercury hazards to industrial workers and the calculation
of thresholds for the general public from industrial data. The implications of
these findings to the production of a safe threshold for patients with dental
amalgams are then discussed. It finally discusses the attempts which have been
made to carry out a risk assessment of dental amalgam. In this connection it
reports the reviews of the United States Public Health Service in 1993, the
Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in 1994 and the risk assessment
commissioned from Canada Health which was reported in 1995. It also includes
comments on the methods used in this last report.
Publication Types:
Review
Review, Tutorial
PMID: 9185355 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://tinyurl.com/yuj39
Acupunct Electrother Res. 1996 Apr-Jun;21(2):133-60. Related Articles, Links
Significant mercury deposits in internal organs following the removal of dental
amalgam, & development of pre-cancer on the gingiva and the sides of the tongue
and their represented organs as a result of inadvertent exposure to strong
curing light (used to solidify synthetic dental filling material) & effective
treatment: a clinical case report, along with organ representation areas for
each tooth.
http://tinyurl.com/2gnwl
1: Br J Dermatol. 1996 Mar;134(3):420-3. Related Articles, Links
The relevance and effect of amalgam replacement in subjects with oral lichenoid
reactions.
Ibbotson SH, Speight EL, Macleod RI, Smart ER, Lawrence CM.
Department of Dermatology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
In this study we examined the prevalence of mercury hypersensitivity in
patients with oral lichenoid reactions (OLR) and the effect of amalgam
replacement in subjects with amalgams adjacent to OLR irrespective of their
mercury sensitivity status. One hundred and ninety-seven patients with oral
problems were examined: 109 with OLR, 22 with oral and generalized lichen
planus, and 66 with other oral diagnoses, including aphthous ulcers and
orofacial granulomatosis. Nineteen per cent of patients with OLR reacted to
mercury on patch testing, significantly more than in those with generalized
lichen planus (0%) and in those with other oral diagnoses (3%). Twenty-two
patients with OLR and adjacent amalgams had amalgam replacement and, in 16 of
17 mercury-positive subjects and three of four mercury-negative subjects, the
OLR resolved after amalgam removal. In conclusion, we found a significantly
increased prevalence of mercury hypersensitivity in patients with localized OLR
in comparison to subjects with other oral problems. Amalgam replacement
resulted in resolution of OLR in the majority of patients with amalgams
adjacent to OLR irrespective of their mercury sensitivity status.
PMID: 8731663 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
This one for Rich Andrews
http://tinyurl.com/2dp6g
1: Psychol Rep. 1992 Jun;70(3 Pt 2):1139-51. Related Articles, Links
A comparison of mental health of multiple sclerosis patients with
silver/mercury dental fillings and those with fillings removed.
Siblerud RL.
Rocky Mountain Research Institute, Inc., Colorado.
In this study was compared the mental health status of 47 multiple sclerosis
patients with silver/mercury tooth fillings (amalgams) to that of 50 patients
with their fillings removed. On the Beck Depression Inventory the multiple
sclerosis subjects with amalgams suffered significantly more depression while
their scores on the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory indicated the former
group also exhibited significantly more anger. On the SCL-90 Revised, subjects
with amalgam fillings had significantly more symptoms of depression, hostility,
psychotism, and were more obsessive-compulsive than the patients with such
fillings removed. On a questionnaire containing 18 mental health symptoms
multiple sclerosis subjects with amalgam fillings reported a history of 43%
more symptoms than those without amalgam fillings over the past 12 months.
These data suggested that the poorer mental health status exhibited by multiple
sclerosis subjects with dental amalgam fillings may be associated with mercury
toxicity from the amalgam.
PMID: 1496084 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://tinyurl.com/2ukse
: Am J Psychother. 1989 Oct;43(4):575-87. Related Articles, Links
The relationship between mercury from dental amalgam and mental health.
Siblerud RL.
Colorado State University, Department of Physiology, Fort Collins.
The findings presented here suggest that mercury poisoning from dental amalgam
may play a role in the etiology of mental illness. Comparisons between subjects
with and without amalgam showed significant differences in subjective reports
of mental health. Subjects who had amalgams removed reported that symptoms of
mental illness lessened or disappeared after removal. The data suggest that
inorganic mercury poisoning from dental amalgam does affect the mind and
emotions.
PMID: 2618948 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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