Dentists In No Position To Declare Amalgams Safe

Dentists are not in any position to declare that amalgam fillings are
"safe" because it appears that many of the scientific investigations
which would be necessary in order to do so have never been carried out.
For example, it has been demonstrated experimentally that amalgam
fillings generate electrical potentials with magnitudes of up to 350
millivolts.

See:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=2231160&dopt=Citation

However, despite the fact that the resting potential of the human
neurological synapse has a magnitude of only 70 millivolts, it appears
that experimental investigations to determine whether or not the
electrical potentials generated by amalgam fillings are able to
dissipate electrical energy through the nerves in people's heads have
never been carried out.

This means that there is no scientific basis upon which dentists can
gauge the degree to which the dissipation of electrical energy through
nerves by amalgam fillings is responsible for a whole range of
neurological and/or "psychological" disorders which have hitherto not
been associated with amalgam fillings (e.g. Meniere's disease,
tinnitus, headaches, schizophrenia, depression, "teenage angst", etc.).

Technologists have developed extremely sensitive instruments which are
able to measure nerve impulses in the human body very accurately. In
view of what is known about the electrical behavior of amalgam dental
fillings, and in view of the fact that these fillings continue to be
placed in children's teeth, I believe that experimental procedures
ought to be carried out in order to determine whether or not it is
possible to detect any difference between neurological function in the
vicinity of teeth with amalgam fillings and neurological function in
the vicinity of teeth without.

And if such procedures were not able to detect any such difference then
the mainstream dental profession, which continues to support the use of
amalgam in restorative dentistry, would at least have some scientific
basis for attempting to refute the claims of those highly prosperous
"anti-amalgam" dentists who promote the removal of amalgam fillings on
the grounds of their electrical behavior.

e.g

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

http://www.toothwisdom.net/m.battery.html

Keith P Walsh

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