Top Dentist Blames Electricity From Amalgams


A top dentist who numbers among his patients some of the World's
biggest soccer stars has spoken out about the adverse physiological
effects caused by the electrical behavior of dental amalgams.

Dr Philip Wander, who claims to have treated some of the English
soccer league's best known players (including international superstar
David Beckham) at his surgery in Manchester, England, makes the
following assertions regarding the electrical effects of amalgam
dental fillings:

"Nevertheless, as potentially damaging as mercury in the mouth is the
electricity itself. When testing teeth for electrical effects, I have
seen momentary sparks of up to one volt - enough to light a small
torch or flashlight. It's worth remembering that the currents
generated by amalgams are formed very close to the brain, which
ordinarily operated at far lower potentials (only a few millivolts).
The brain lies only a few millietres from the jaw bone, where the
roots of the teeth are inserted, just on the other side of the thin
cranial bone and the meninges (the three membranes enveloping the
brain and spinal cord). This kind of current can cause mental
dysfunction, which I often find in clinical practice."

See:

http://www.wanderdental.co.uk/mercuryfreedentistry.html

Is Dr Wander guilty of attempting to raise unnecessary concerns by
scaremongering?

Or has the mainstream dental profession been making a ridiculously
dumb error for most of the last 200 years?

Keith P Walsh

PS, it appears that most dentists (including even Dr Wander perhaps)
have been taught to believe that dissimilar metals in contact with
each other are only able to produce an electrical current if they
become involved in an electrolytic reaction.

Not so.

It has been known for more than 160 years that metals, mixtures of
metals and dissimilar metals in contact with each othe are able to
dissipate electrical energy to their surroundings as a result of their
thermoelectric behavior.

AND THERE IS NO ELECTROLYSIS INVOLVED.

Does anyone know if anyone has ever attempted to measure the
thermoelectric properties of a typical dental amalgam?

(An elementary description of the thermoelectric effect can be seen
at:

http://book.boot.users.btopenworld.com/thermo2.htm

- and there really is no electrolysis involved.)

.

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