The Truth About Mercury Fillings

More than 25 years ago, I resigned as a Fellow of the prestigious Academy of General Dentistry. This was in protest to their refusal to look at the possible negative health effects of using dental fillings that were mostly mercury, since mercury is a known poison.

Since then, the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association, and the Food and Drug Administration have strenuously fought every protest and law suit from an increasing group of concerned doctors and patients. Big Med and the Feds have ceaselessly insisted there is no health concern with mercury-containing fillings. They are a powerful lobby, with many friends in Congress. Fighting them has, until now, been frustrating and unsuccessful.

Colleagues of mine, like Dr. Richard Fischer of Annandale, Virginia have tirelessly campaigned against these organizations in an effort to get them to at least give some thought to the arguments against mercury fillings. Currently, Dr. Fischer tells me there are efforts being made to get the FDA to ban mercury fillings entirely.

As it is, the FDA has just issued a ruling reversing all the smoke and mirrors they have put up over the past couple of decades. This reversal is especially important and far reaching, because it validates our contention that mercury fillings pose a substantial health threat. They are a "dental focus" as discussed in an earlier chapter.

From the ebag:

On June 6 09:43:45 Margaret said: Hi Nate

Hope all is well, and thought you'd find the article below of interest.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Silver-colored metal dental fillings contain mercury that may cause health problems in pregnant women, children and fetuses, the Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday after settling a related lawsuit.

As part of the settlement with several consumer advocacy groups, the FDA agreed to alert consumers about the potential risks on its web site and to issue a more specific rule next year for fillings that contain mercury, FDA spokeswoman Peper Long said.

Millions of Americans have the mercury fillings, or amalgams, to patch cavities in their teeth. Mercury has been linked to brain and kidney damage at certain levels. Amalgams contain half mercury and half a combination of other metals.

"Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses," the FDA said in a notice on its Web site.

Charles Brown, a lawyer for one of the groups called Consumers for Dental Choice, said the agency's move represented an about-face. "Gone, gone, gone are all of FDA's claims that no science exists that amalgam is unsafe," he said in a statement.

While the FDA previously said various studies showed no harm from mercury fillings, some consumer groups contend the fillings can trigger a range of health problems such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. In 2006, an FDA advisory panel of outside experts said most people would not be harmed by them, but said the agency needed more information.

The FDA said it did not recommend that people who currently have mercury fillings get them removed.(Reporting by Susan Heavey; editing by Carol Bishopric)

And so, it appears, another well known "scientific fact", that there is no harm to putting mercury fillings into a person's mouth, proves to be false.

Perhaps you can begin to see the tremendous problem this represents, not just because the fillings contain the poisonous mercury, but also because the metal fillings generate harmful electric currents. These currents are what we described earlier as "dental focal disturbances".

To eliminate the cause rather than treat the symptoms means many people with strange or unresolved health issues should consider having these fillings removed and replaced. But no one wants to go to the dentist and replace dental fillings that seem to be in perfect working order.

That misses the point.

Getting rid of the mercury is reason enough. Additionally, we do our bodies no favor if we fail to recognize the electric currents can endanger the health of distant organs along the acupuncture meridians (See Reinhold Voll in section on Energy Medicine).

I have never suggested everyone remove and replace their mercury-containing fillings. But I take no comfort in the blanket FDA recommendation that you should not have metal fillings removed. If you have unresolved chronic health issues, you should give the replacement of mercury metal fillings your very deep and careful consideration.

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