The average american has 7 mercury fillings. It's kind of like holding seven leaking mercury thermometers in your mouth 365 days a year, 24 hours per day! --- Dr Michael Ziff, Executive Director of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.
Mercury is still widely used as mercury amalgams even though the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) had classified dental amalgams as a toxic waste in 1988. In other words, if a dentist were to dump a dental amalgam in a lake or bury it in the ground somewhere, he would be guilty of breaking the law. But if this same dentist places this same substance in someone's mouth, then it would no longer be considered a threat. Does this make sense to you?
In his book Mercury Free, Dentist Dr James E Hardy had the following to say on the subject:
There has never been a dental filling material so long used and so long opposed. Even when it was introduced in the United States in 1934, physicians called mercury's use in tooth repair 'malpractice'. Mercury is dangerous, more poisonous than lead or arsenic. Dental amalgams are composed mostly of mercury. They release mercury vapor into the body 24 hours a day. And, although a dozen new filling materials have been shown to be superior to mercury amalgams, they are still the most often used material in dentistry.
The fact that mercury is toxic is not debatable. Immune disorders, kidney conditions, neurological complications as well as many chronic illnesses are directly associated with mercury poisoning.
The World Health Organization(WHO) has concluded that a single amalgam will release 3-17 mcg of mercury into the system, unequivocally making amalgam fillings the main source of exposure.
Dr Richard D Fischer, a practicing dentist in Annandale, Va. and past president of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, gave this testimony before Congress on November 14th, 2002:
Dental amalgam fillings contribute more mercury to burden the body than than all other sources combined. These fillings contain 50%+ mercury --- which is more neurotoxic than lead, cadmium, or even arsenic. To put this in perspective, the amount of mercury contained in one dental amalgam exceeds the U.S. EPA standard for human exposure for over 100 years. Put in other terms, it takes only 1/2 gram of mercury(the amount in one filling) to contaminate all the fish in a 10 acre lake.
Scrap amalgam mercury, that unused portion of the filling material remaining after the filling is placed into a tooth, must by law be handled as a toxic waste disposal hazard. It cannot be thrown into the trash, buried in the ground, or incinerated. Yet some will justify storing this same mixture in people's mouths just inches from the brainstem and declare it harmless!!
Published research shows that between 14-75% of the mercury found in municipal waste water systems originated from dental offices. Mercury in this form ultimately finds its way into our rivers, lakes, bays, and oceans where it undergoes a bioconversion by bacteria into methyl mercury --- the form which commonly contaminates fish and shellfish.
In this form, when eaten, 90-100% of the mercury is absorbed. It was this compound which caused the tragedy in Japan's Minimata Bay in the 1970's when hundreds of people were poisoned and many died as a result of eating mercury contaminated fish.
How does one detox the mercury overload in the body? Getting rid of the amalgam fillings is the first step. Using health products such as Chlorella, Cilantro, French Green Clay all help detox the body of heavy metals. Mercury is used in nearly all vaccines, now listed as Thimersol. It is also in many pharmaceutical drugs.
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