Time to ban amalgam, scientific case is proven, send this Letter to Ed to all papers, etc.

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Dental Amalgam Fillings Shown to Be Incompatible with Modern Life at FDA Dental

Forum

At the FDA forum on amalgam safety in Orlando this week, the story of one of the

patients at the forum who suffered major harm from dental amalgam, again brought

out the common harm caused by use of dental amalgam in dentistry and the

incompatibility of amalgam with modern life. Since the 1800s dental amalgam has

been known to dental authorities to be an unstable and dangerous alloy, since

mercury is a gas at room temperature and any other form begins to vaporize at 10

degrees Farenheit, with the vapor pressure doubling with every additional

increase of 10 degrees Centigrade. ( www.flcv.com/AmalHist.html ) Additionally,

the mixed metals in amalgam in saliva are known to form a battery which induces

current in the amalgam and pumps the mercury into the oral cavity of the mouth.

This is easily verified with a microamp meter such as those from Radio Shack (

www.flcv.com/AmalgamP.html ). However with the advent of A/C electricity, the

instability of dental amalgam became even worse. Alternating electric current

induces electromagnetic fields(EMF) in metals which pump metals into the oral

cavity. Biopsy studies and autopsy studies have documented extremely high levels

of mercury accumulate in the oral cavity in this way in those who have amalgam

fillings, and from there it is carried throughout the body by capillaries and

nerves. ( www.flcv.com/galv.html )

Dental amalgam has been documented to commonly cause oral problems of many types

including gingivitis, oral lichen planus, burning mouth, oral cancer, etc. (

www.flcv.com/periodon.html )

But when Barbara Koenig's doctor chose to treat her oral discomfort with

diathermy heat, they didn't realize that the heat would cause high mercury vapor

loss and also result in the fillings pumping high levels of mercury, etc. into

her oral cavity. She became aware that her mouth gradually felt very warm, with

the feeling reaching the state of feeling like she had a “blowtorch in her

mouthâ€. By the time the device was shut off, she had suffered acute mercury

poisoning and had large volumes of toxic metals deposited in her oral cavity,

called “amalgam tattoosâ€. She said that she had so much mercury released

that over a considerable period of time it was “bubbling up in her salivaâ€

virtually continuously. She suffered immediate major health problems, that grew

over time until they reached partial paralysis as well as having throat and

stomach/digestive problems and a constant intense pain, diagnosed by Mayo Clinic

as being permanent damage to her trigeminal nerve, caused by the use of

Diathermy in an area with dental amalgam. She also consulted the FDA, who agreed

with the Mayo Clinic findings and listed oral diathermy as contraindicated in an

area with amalgam fillings in the Diathermy use manual. While removal of the

amalgam fillings improved most of her problems, she was left with constant pain

and a weakened immune system.

But the FDA does not appear to have gone far enough, since many electrical and

heat devices, including sauna, electric tooth brushes, dental tooth cleaning and

polishing equipment, hair dryers, and other appliances that have EMF are

documented to cause significant increases in vaporization of mercury from dental

amalgam. Due to all of these reasons, people get very high exposures of mercury

from dental fillings, with thousands of medical lab tests and Government agency

confirmation that amalgam is the largest source of mercury in most people with

amalgam fillings or metal crowns over amalgam. (w ww.flcv.com/damspr1.html )

But due to these large exposures, EPA and Municipal Sewer agencies have found

that amalgam is also the largest source of mercury in sewers and sewer sludge,

with very high levels of mercury in both. They found a person with several

amalgam fillings excretes on average approximately 30 micrograms of mercury into

the sewers, a huge level given the extreme toxicity of mercury.

Www.flcv.com/damspr2.html While the EPA health limit for mercury in water is 2

parts per billion, the level of mercury in sewage sludge is 2 to 3 parts per

million. But since sewer plants cannot take mercury out of the sewage, the

mercury flows into water bodies and is a significant source of mercury in water

bodies, the environment, fish, etc. An amalgam on average has about ½ gram of

mercury, which has been documented to be enough to contaminate all fish in a 10

acre lake to dangerous levels. The amount of mercury going into water bodies

each year is enough to contaminate all such water bodies to dangerous levels.

And over half of Florida water bodies have health warnings for mercury in fish,

both freshwater and saltwater.

Since all the dentists at the FDA Orlando forum agreed that there are now better

options than amalgam for fillings, its time to ban or greatly limit amalgam use

like other countries with modern health systems do. And to immediately require

all dental offices to install amalgam separators in their office to keep mercury

out of local sewers.

(suggest papers run as community columnist column where possible, also to

Congressmen & Legislators)

[www.flcv.com/Koenig.html]

Bernie