Re: Why We Use No Mercury In The Fillings We Place

From: Jan (jdrew63929_at_aol.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: 30 Sep 2004 01:29:44 GMT

>Subject: Re: Why We Use No Mercury In The Fillings We Place
>From: "John Chewter" john@LESS_SPAMchewter.f9.co.uk
>Date: 9/29/2004 11:52 AM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: <cjep8n$d4v$1@titan.btinternet.com>

>Anyway I estimate that based on reasonable assumptions, it has it may have
>been around for at least 151 years.
>
>Because its has been around does for a while does not infer that anything
>newer is better.

It never should have been used period.

http://www.wholisticresearch.com/info/artshow.php3?artid=20

The Mercury Papers
by Stephen Macallan, MBAcC, MAMH
 
(The Most Expensive Medical Mistake in The History of The World)

The History of Mercury Amalgam

In the early 1800s French dentists successfully (sic) mixed mercury with other
metals and plugged the mixture into cavities in teeth. These early mixtures
contained relatively small amounts of mercury and required heat to enable the
metals to bind together. In 1819 Benjamin Bell in England developed an amalgam
mix with much
more mercury in it that enabled the metals to bind at room temperature. Back in
France in 1826 Taveau produced a similar formulation and then in the 1830's the
amalgam concept was introduced in America. Many American dentists denounced
amalgam use on account of the toxic nature of mercury and when the American
Society of Dental Surgeons was formed in 1840 its' members were required to
sign a pledge never to use mercury amalgam on account of its great toxicity.
The pledge
was abandoned within five years! (Curious historical note No1. Quick silver is
a common name for mercury, both here and in Germany, and the 'quick' in German
is pronounced quack, thus amalgam-using dentists became known as quacks - a
term
which has come to mean an inept and fraudulent medic - perhaps amalgam-using
dentists should still be called quacks).

In 1848 the Society found 11 of its' members guilty of "..malpractice...for
using amalgam.." and suspended them. The arguments raged on, then, as now,
until finally the god won - money that is, and the A.S.D.S. dissolved in chaos
in 1856. There was a lot of profit in amalgam fillings, cheap to make and easy
to use, compared with gold, expensive and technically more difficult. The
American Dental Association took its' place and cunningly, did not take a stand
on the amalgam issue, allowing market forces to prevail until about 1895. The
Encyclopaedia Britannica reports "that amalgams were not altogether in good
repute until after 1895", by which time the A.D.A. was supporting the use of
amalgam.
 

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