[Mercury-Autism] Mark Sircus: The Dangers of Mercury Amalgams

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This is part of an article by Mark Sircus (taken from his book Winning the

War on Cancer)

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Natural Approaches for the Prevention of Oral Cancer and Periodontal

Disease Thursday, April 03, 2008 by: Mark Sircus Ac., OMD (see all articles

by this author) <http://www.naturalnews.com/Author382.html>

| Key concepts: mercury <http://www.naturalnews.com/mercury.html>,

cancer<http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer.html>and

magnesium <http://www.naturalnews.com/magnesium.html>

*The Dangers of Mercury Amalgams*

Gingivitis is the inflammation of the gums around the teeth due in great

part to improper cleaning of the teeth. Although systemic factors and

general health can modify the tissue reactions to local irritants, the

primary irritant is mercury containing dental amalgam. It is a well known

fact in the published, peer-reviewed dental journals that mercury leaks

directly from amalgam into adjacent oral tissues causing periodontal

disease. In 1957, Zander (JADA, 55:11-15) reported " materials used in

restorative dentistry <http://www.naturalnews.com/dentistry.html> may be a

contributing factor in gingival disease. " In 1961, App (J Prosth Dent

11:522-532) suggested that there was greater chronic inflammation around

amalgam sites than non-amalgam areas. In 1964, Trott and Sherkat (J CDA,

30:766-770) showed that the presence of mercury amalgam correlates with

gingival disease. Such disease was not present at contralateral amalgam-free

sites. In 1973, Trivedi and Talim (J. Prosth. Dentistry, 29:73-81)

demonstrated that 62% of amalgam sites have inflammatory periodontal tissue

reaction. In 1976, Goldschmidt et al (J. Perio. Res., 11:108-115)

demonstrated that amalgam corrosion products were cytotoxic to gingival

cells at concentrations of 10 to 6; that is, micrograms/gram of tissue.

The Report, a study completed for Canada health in 1995, found

that the tolerable daily intake of mercury was exceeded in different age

groups with the following number of amalgam fillings:

* adults - 4

* teenagers <http://www.naturalnews.com/teenagers.html> – 3

* children and toddlers <http://www.naturalnews.com/toddlers.html> – 1.

- Dr. Gammal

Dentists and their parent dental associations are loath to inform patients

that the mercury they place in the mouth is a deadly poison that negatively

influences not only their oral environments but total body health as well.

This is a shame that the majority of dentists will take to their grave.

" Mercury is one of the most potent chemical inhibitors of thiol-sensitive

enzymes <http://www.naturalnews.com/enzymes.html> and mercury vapour easily

penetrates into the central nervous system, " writes Dr. Boyd Haley who goes

on to say, " Amalgams leak mercury, this is a fact that any chemistry

department can confirm. We have made amalgam fillings outside of the mouth,

placed these fillings in sterile

water<http://www.naturalnews.com/water.html>for 15 minutes to several

hours. We then tested this water for

toxicity <http://www.naturalnews.com/toxicity.html> to tubulin and creatine

kinase. The result was that the solutions in which amalgams were soaked

(even for fifteen minutes) were extremely toxic. This work is supported by

reports doing similar experiments at the University of Michigan Dental

School where they described solutions in which amalgams were soaked as being

'extremely cytotoxic.'

It is estimated that an amalgam filling will release up to half of its

mercury content over a ten year period (50% corrosion rate). - Dr.

Gammal

" There is no safe level of mercury, and no one has actually shown that there

is a safe level, " said Dr. Lars Friberg, Chief Adviser to the WHO (World

Health Organization<http://www.naturalnews.com/World_Health_Organization.html>)

on mercury safety. Survival Medicine has a two hundred page section called

The Rising Tide of Mercury because mercury toxicity needs to be factored

into all notions of health and disease today. " The Report, a

study completed for Canada health in 1995, found that the tolerable daily

intake of mercury was exceeded in different age groups with the following

number of amalgam fillings: adults - 4, teenagers – 3, children and toddlers

– 1, " reports Dr. Gammal. When you walk into a doctor's office with serious

health complaints, the first thing they should do is ask you to open your

mouth and take a look at your teeth. He should count the number of

toxic mercury

fillings <http://www.naturalnews.com/mercury_fillings.html> that have been

implanted into your mouth and make a quick calculation.

*Mercury Exposures Compared*

Dr. Hal A. Huggins stated that amalgam fillings can devastate human health.

The most common form of exposure to mercury is by inhalation of vapor and

there is widespread general agreement that this leads to a slowly developing

and insidious poisoning, which at first yield psychic and other general

effects that are vague and difficult to diagnose. The World Health

Organization (WHO) in 1991 determined that dental amalgam was the greatest

source of mercury contamination to the general population - up to ten times

greater than all other sources combined - and that for mercury vapor, there

is no known " no-observable-effect level (NOEL) " . Yet dentists have continued

to expose children to the toxic effects of mercury.

Children with amalgams are exposed to from tens to several hundreds of

micrograms of mercury per day depending on how many fillings are in their

mouth, how old the fillings are, how much a person brushes their teeth,

chews and eats, the bacteria count in the mouth, and even the temperature of

the body. Dr. Murry Vimy, professor of dentistry says, " It is estimated that

the average individual, with eight biting surface mercury fillings, is

exposed to a daily dose uptake of about 10 micrograms of mercury from their

fillings. Select individuals may have daily doses 10 times higher (l00 mcgs)

because of factors which exacerbate the mercury vaporization.

Mercury is invisible in vapor form but we have to see that it's raining

mercury, literally. The FDA says it's everywhere and for once they are right

about something. People with mercury fillings have literal *Vapors From Hell

* in their mouths, fumes from their mercury dental fillings that rise up

from their teeth 24/7 with more powerful bursts when chewing or drinking hot

fluids. These vapors play havoc on the body through a host of means the

least of which is to feed the bacteria, fungi and yeasts that thrive on

mercury. Mercury will promote the growth of Candida, though as it adsorbs

the mercury it thereby protects the system to a certain extent from its

toxicity. Candida cannot be effectively dealt with without dealing with the

dental issues. This is not an optional approach, but necessarily part of the

primary approach.

The list of organisms that have the highest affinity for toxic metals reads

like a " who's who " of our typical human infectious diseases: fungi of the

candida <http://www.naturalnews.com/candida.html> species, streptococci,

staphylococci, amoebas, etc. - Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt

With mercury implanted in the majority of peoples' mouths and with mercury

now outdistancing lead as the number one polluter in the environment, we can

assume that mercury toxicity is playing a huge role in the creation of many

diseases including cancer and heart disease, the number one and two causes

of death.

There are poisonous time bombs going off in billions of mouths and few in

medicine and dentistry are aware of it. Why dentistry did not study mercury

chemistry before 1000's of tons were implanted

two inches from the brain <http://www.naturalnews.com/the_brain.html> and

why allopathic medicine did not scream out warnings are questions we will be

asking for a long time.

When we look at the fungal and yeast

infections<http://www.naturalnews.com/infections.html>that are an

integral aspect of cancer, we should begin to understand the

desperate need to include chelation of mercury in each and every cancer

treatment. Mercury fed candida become more and more virulent and eventually

penetrate and root into the intestinal walls and invade the cells. These

fungal microorganisms become quite at home in the cell, and can easily be

considered a principle characteristic of cancer. Survival Medicine has a two

hundred page section on cancer and its treatment with

sodium<http://www.naturalnews.com/sodium.html>bicarbonate, which is

proving to be effective against cancer because it is

lethal to yeasts and fungi growths.

Mercury from amalgam fillings has been shown to be neurotoxic, embryotoxic,

mutagenic, teratogenic, immunotoxic and clastogenic. It is capable of

causing immune dysfunction and auto-immune diseases. - Dr. Gammal

When we consider mercury as one of the basic causes of cancer and heart

disease we can begin to review our estimates on iatrogenic death and

disease. Mercury toxicity is in the realm of chronic

disease<http://www.naturalnews.com/chronic_disease.html>yet we also

have to look at its ability to weaken the immune system and

leave people vulnerable to acute infection. Mercury is often at the heart of

periodontitis and many other diseases; yet the vast majority of dentists are

still in denial, which makes them inept at taking care of the problems they

themselves create for patients. It is bad enough that they plant the mercury

in the mouth but then they add insult and injury by suggesting, as they do,

antibiotics that make the entire situation worse with the yeasts and fungus.

Iatrogenic dentistry is a new concept that has yet to be explored but

already a great part of the civilized world understands the incredible

stupidity and cruelty of fluoridated

water<http://www.naturalnews.com/fluoridated_water.html>,

toothpaste and fluoride

<http://www.naturalnews.com/fluoride.html>treatments at the dental

clinic and the continued widespread use of mercury

containing dental amalgam. Harvard University Medical Center is just one of

many universities that recognize fluoride as a cause of cancer. If one wants

to study the basic elements of terrorism, one need look no further than the

people and organizations that support the fluoridation of public water

supplies.

Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt and others have long observed that patients

diagnosed with chronic viral illnesses (EBV, CMV, HIV,

herpes<http://www.naturalnews.com/herpes.html>zoster and genital

herpes, CFIDS etc.), chronic fungal illnesses

(Candidiasis and others) and recurrent episodes of bacterial infections

(chronic sinusitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, bladder/prostate infections,

HIV <http://www.naturalnews.com/HIV.html> related infections) often have

dramatic recoveries following an aggressive amalgam

detoxification<http://www.naturalnews.com/detoxification.html>program.

Detrimental accumulation of mercury from amalgam fillings lowers

immunity through a depletion of beneficial, antioxidant enzymes such as

glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and catalase as well as the

vital mineral selenium, which chemically is the best antidote to mercury

contamination.

Dentists who are not happy with the use of mercury and fluoride end up

prescribing antibiotic <http://www.naturalnews.com/antibiotic.html> mouth

rinses containing an antimicrobial agent called chlorhexidine to control

bacteria when treating gingivitis and after gum surgery. Also, gels that

contain the antibiotic doxycycline and antibiotic micro-spheres that release

minocycline slowly over time, along with the terrible mouthwashes that one

can buy at every pharmacy <http://www.naturalnews.com/pharmacy.html> and

supermarket in the world are also prescribed. Fungal overgrowth occurs

because its natural competitors have been removed, which is the case with

heavy antibiotic usage. The mercury in dental amalgam increases the problem

exponentially due to decreased immunity from immunocompromisation.

It is very difficult to accept the devastating reality about what dentists

have done to humanity. Dentistry is in dire need of change and it does come

as a great surprise to most of us that our trusted highly skilled dentists

have been hypnotized and conditioned into ignorance by their dental

professors and dental organizations. It is these people and organizations

that should be on President Bush's terrorist list because dental amalgams

could easily be considered a weapon of mass destruction if you calculate the

massive tonnage of mercury put into mouths around the world each year.

U.S. Dentists purchase 34 tons of mercury per year, the Nation's third

largest purchaser of mercury.

Dental amalgams are legalized toxic waste sites planted inches from the

brain! It is more than amazing to see seemingly intelligent men and woman

live with the belief that mercury is highly toxic and dangerous everywhere

except in the mouth. Some people are able to clear the mercury vapors from

their system but others develop devastating symptoms.

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