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What does Charlie Brown the president of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry say about Amalgam fillings?
“Amalgam is a primitive, polluting, 19th century product that began when physicians were sawing off legs. Medicine has since moved forward.”
What is an Amalgam filling?
Amalgam is a dental filling material.
What is an Amalgam filling made of?
Dental Amalgam consists of a mixture of metals which include mercury, silver, tin and copper.
Which component in Amalgam fillings is of concern?
The mercury component is of concern.
What is Mercury?
Mercury is a heavy metal that can be found in the earth’s crust.
Is Mercury toxic?
Mercury is one of the most toxic substances known to humans.
Why are Amalgam fillings toxic?
Amalgam fillings contain at least 50% Mercury which is a known neuro toxin.
How toxic are amalgam fillings?
That depends on your susceptibility, your genetic disposition, the amount of mercury fillings and the way the fillings are placed.
How do I know what genetic disposition I have?
A genetic test for Apolipoproteins can tell you.
What are Apolipoproteins?
The brain contains proteins that assist in the removal of waste products, including mercury. These proteins are called Apolipoprotein E (APO-E).
Are their different kinds of Apolipoprotein E?
Which Apolipoprotein E transports how much mercury out of the brain?
What does that mean?
Does this have anything to do with autistic people?
Research has shown that autistic children strongly-tend to have APO-E4 proteins.
What about Alzheimer’s disease?
Research has also shown that people with APO-E4 / APO-E4 have an 80% chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease.
Are Amalgam fillings safe once they are in your mouth?
No, amalgam fillings release mercury 24/7.
Can the release of mercury from amalgam fillings be proven?
Yes, with a mercury vapour test.
Is it worse to have different metals and amalgam fillings in the mouth?
Yes, if other metals are in your mouth up to 10 times more mercury is released due to galvanic action.
How much Mercury is released from Amalgam fillings?
A single dental amalgam filling can release up to 15 micrograms of mercury per day.
What increases the release of mercury from the filling?
Chewing, especially chewing gum, hot and acidic food and drinks, smoking, clenching and grinding your teeth and other metals in your mouth and body.
How much mercury should we have in our body?
In an ideal world we would all have zero mercury in our body. However, due to diet, environmental exposure, dental treatment, almost every person has at least trace amounts of mercury in their body.
How many forms of mercury exist?
There are three forms of mercury.
Can I have an allergic reaction to amalgam filling?
Yes, you can. However, this is very rare.
What are the sources of metallic mercury?
Metallic mercury or elemental mercury is the mercury used in amalgam fillings and thermometers.
What are the sources of organic mercury?
Organic mercury is the (methyl) mercury found in fish or used in vaccination as a preservative (ethyl mercury) called Thiomersal, in herbicides, fungicides.
What are the sources of inorganic mercury?
Inorganic mercury appears naturally in the environment including volcanoes, forest fires and fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum. It is used for example in cosmetic skin creams.
Why are amalgam fillings a problem for the brain?
Mercury affects autoimmune activation, oxidative stress levels, neuroinflammation and can cause neuronal damage and loss of connectivity.
Can mercury amalgam fillings make antibiotics resistant?
Yes, they can. The genes for mercury resistance are carried on bacterial plasmids which also carry the antibiotic resistance gene.
Why do dentists still use Amalgam fillings?
This question only the dentist themselves can answer; Some dentists obviously are still of the opinion using amalgam fillings is safe for their patients and themselves. Some dentists even have amalgam fillings in their own mouth.
What are the benefits of Amalgam fillings?
They are cheap, easy to use, strong and long lasting.
What is the GDC’s (General Dental Council, UK) opinion on Amalgam?
Whilst some patients may choose to opt for mercury-free dentistry, patients should not be led to believe that the use of dental amalgam is unsafe.
What is the BDA’s (British Dental Association) opinion on Amalgam?
The BDA has worked hard to avoid a full ban of dental amalgam for the Minimata Treaty of 2013.
What is the WHO’s (World Health Organisation) opinion on Mercury?
What happened in Minamata?
Following mercury waste pollution in the water, residents near the city of Minamata bay, Japan, developed nerve disorders, resulting in more than 900 deaths during the 1950s and 60s.
What does the WHO say about mercury, including its inhaled form (mercury vapour from amalgam fillings)?
“Mercury is highly toxic and harmful to health. Approximately 80% of inhaled mercury vapor is absorbed in the blood through the lungs, causing damages to lungs, kidneys and the nervous, digestive, respiratory and immune systems. Health effects from excessive mercury exposure include tremors, impaired vision and hearing, paralysis, insomnia, emotional instability, developmental deficits during fetal development, and attention deficit and developmental delays during childhood.”
If I eat a lot of fish can I get mercury poisoning?
The higher the fish is in the food chain the more likely it is that it has a lot of poison in its body.
Which fish are high in mercury?
Farmed Salmon, Atlantic Cod, Eel, Farmed Shrimp or King Crab, King Mackerel or Atlantic Blue-fin Tuna.
How long does it take for your body to get rid of mercury?
It can take up to a year for your mercury levels to go down after you stop eating the mercury-rich fish.
What happens to the absorbed mercury from fish?
When you eat seafood containing methylmercury, over 95 percent of the mercury can be absorbed into your bloodstream.
Where does the mercury from fish travel in your body?
Methylmercury can travel throughout your body and penetrate the cells of various tissues and organs where it can remain stored up for years, which can cause symptoms that you may or may not realize are the result of mercury poisoning.
What sort of fish are safer options regarding Mercury?
Better options are Wild-caught Atlantic Salmon, Pacific Sardines, Atlantic Mackerel or Black Cod.
What are Mercury Poisoning Symptoms?
Symptoms can be grouped into three categories based on the form of mercury toxicity:
Are mercury poising symptoms quickly appearing?
What are some symptoms of Elemental and Vapourised Mercury Poisoning?
What can high exposure to elemental mercury cause?
What are Organic Mercury Poisoning Symptoms?
Organic Mercury Toxicity (most Frequently in The Methylmercury Form from Ingestion), Causes Neurological Malfunctions, and Especially in A Fetus, Impaired Neurological Development.
Other Symptoms Include:
What are Inorganic Mercury Poisoning Symptoms?
Inorganic mercury toxicity often causes:
If ingested, it can dissolve tissues and some may be absorbed by the intestinal tissue.
Large amounts of ingested inorganic mercury may cause bloody diarrhea.
Absorbed mercury can spread to other organ systems resulting in mental changes including mood swings and memory loss or renal damage.
Can I have muscle weakness from mercury poisoning?
Yes, this may also occur.
Is Mercury a problem when you are pregnant?
Many pregnant women have had methylmercury toxicity which effects their children.
Why is Mercury a problem in pregnant women?
The brain of the foetus is very sensitive to methylmercury.
What can be the side effects of mercury in a new-born
Developmental impairments such as reduced ability in thinking, attention span, memory, and most motor skills occur in various degrees, often severe, even if the mother developed few if any symptoms.
What neurological problems can Mercury cause?
How can your dentist remove Amalgam fillings safely?
He can use the SMART Protocol from the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) which explains exactly how mercury fillings can be removed in a save way, protecting patient, dentist and assistant alike.
What is the IAOMT Protocol for safe Amalgam removal?
The full protocol can be found here.
Is there a connection between Mercury and Alzheimer’s disease?
Research says yes, if you have specific genes, namely two ApoE4 (Apolipoprotein E) genes, you are more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease.
Which ApoE protein protects from Alzheimer’s disease?
Research shows if you have the ApoE2 gene you do not get Alzheimer’s.
What is the difference in these APOE genes?
Are the Symptoms of Mercury Intoxication and Alzheimer’s disease similar?
They are similar because both have:
Is there a connection between Mercury and Parkinson’s?
Studies have found that some people with specific genetic mutations are more susceptible to environmental toxins, such as mercury.
The early in life exposure to these environmental toxins makes them more susceptible to Parkinson’s disease.
Mercury exposure also lowers the cell’s levels of Glutathione, Dopamine and NAD.
These cellular changes specifically target the portion of the midbrain that controls movement. The mercury sensitive patient then shows symptoms of Parkinson’s disease when they reach the age of about 60 years old.
Is there a connection between Mercury and MS?
There are patients who after receiving amalgam fillings developed MS-like symptoms and were thereafter diagnosed with MS. Once the amalgam fillings were safely removed the symptoms subsided and the patients got their health back.
Is there a connection between Mercury and Cavitations?
Research from Germany has indicated that cavitations may hold a reservoir for heavy metals and other chemical toxins especially in the wisdom teeth areas.
Is there a connection between Mercury, Alcohol consumption and pregnant women?
Is there a connection between Mercury and ADHD?
Is there a connection between Mercury and Autism?
Is there still mercury in vaccines (Thiomersal)?
Why do they put mercury (Thiomersal) in vaccines?
Thimerosal is a mercury-containing organic compound (an organomercurial).
Since the 1930s it has been widely used as a preservative in a number of biological and drug products including many vaccines to help prevent potentially life threatening contamination with harmful microbes.
How can I find out if my symptoms are caused by my amalgam fillings?
The range of possible mercury toxicity symptoms is quite large.
Symptoms differ depending on:
Exposure to a large amount of mercury in a short period of time can quickly lead to severe symptoms.
Low-grade, chronic exposure to mercury from dental amalgams generally causes more subtle and nonspecific symptoms.
What to do if you think you have mercury poisoning from your amalgam fillings?
Is there a test?
Quicksilver Scientific in the US have developed a Tri-Mercury test which is relevant also to your ability to detox.
What can the dentist do to protect me when removing my amalgam fillings?
See the S.M.A.R.T. Protocol from IAOMT.
Is mercury leaking out of my fillings?
Yes, mercury leaks out of fillings 24/7.
Is there a safe level that can leak out of my Amalgam fillings?
According to the WHO (World Health Organisation) there is no a safe level.
How can the mercury vapour leaking out of my fillings be measured?
With a Mercury Vapour Meter.
Is it dangerous if mercury leaks out of my amalgam filling?
Where does the mercury that is leaking out of my fillings store in the body?
It can be stored in the kidneys, gut, gums, blood, spleen, brain, liver, bones and fatty tissues.
Can mercury cause damage to kidneys?
Yes, according to research the kidneys are one of the most targeted organs of mercury.
Can mercury cause damage to my intestines?
Yes.
Can mercury cause damage to the brain?
Yes, mercury can easily cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier.
Can mercury cause damage to the skin?
Yes, I once had a patient who’s skin problems entirely disappeared after removing all her Amalgam Fillings.
Can mercury store in the spine?
Yes.
Can mercury cause damage in my mouth?
Yes.
Is it a problem to have mercury fillings and gold crowns?
Is it a problem to have mercury filling and a root filling?
The combination of decomposing products from a dead or root canal tooth, namely sulphurs and mercury can produce highly toxic compounds.
Is it best to remove amalgam fillings when pregnant?
This is a bit of a tricky one. Recommendation is to have all you and your partner’s Amalgam Fillings removed before you aim for offspring and also have the Mercury detoxed from your body. Once pregnant I would only embark on having Amalgam Fillings removed if a tooth needs treatment or you have a diagnosed problem with Mercury and only with SMART protocol.
How is it possible that my child has no Amalgam Fillings but a lot of Mercury in their body?
A mother while pregnant or breast feeding will pass on between 40% up to 80% of her toxic load such as Mercury to the unborn or baby.
Does it make a difference to the child if the father has also got some Mercury Fillings?
Yes, it does.
What influence do parents have on their child`s mercury level?
According to research by Prof. Boyd Haley if both parents have Amalgam Fillings the capability of the child to eliminate the toxic load can be impaired.
Should all amalgam fillings be removed in one session?
That depends on your overall health situation. I recommend discussing this with an experienced dentist. Using a protocol such as IAOMT’s S.M.A.R.T. and Vitamin C Infusion are important.
Why are some people more susceptible to mercury than others?
This could be due to your genetics.
What have genes to do with mercury problems?
When is the best time to have mercury fillings removed?
Normally, as soon as possible.
Why are boys more susceptible to mercury?
What has Candida to do with mercury fillings?
Mercury promotes the growth of Candida. Candida absorbs the mercury and protects the body from its toxicity – until they are saturated then they begin to re-release the mercury in organic form. Once your mercury fillings are removed and a proper mercury detox is completed, Candida overgrowth most likely resolves itself with little or no effort.
What is a Root Canal?
A Root Canal Treatment is a dental treatment to avoid extracting a tooth.
How is a Root Canal Treatment done?
The pulp (nerve, blood vessels, lymph vessels) is removed leaving back a dead tooth.
What materials are used to fill the root?
The most common method of root canal treatment is to put a paste inside the canal and place a point of gutta-percha into the canal. The paste sets and the canal is sealed – that´s the theory.
What ingredients do thee pastes have?
One of the commonly used pastes is AH26 which contains formaldehyde, ammonia, silver.
Does a Root Canal treatment remove all bacteria from the tooth?
Bacteria from the main Channel are removed BUT, Bacteria hide in the microscopic small side tubules.
How many of these small channels does a tooth have?
A tooth has up to three (some say even more) miles of these small channels.
Does a Root Canal treatment remove all bacteria?
No, it is impossible to clean these small side canals.
What happens inside these tiny channels?
Inside these channels, the tissue rots away and becomes infected.
Can antibiotics not get rid of these infections?
No, no antibiotic or chemical can reach these bacteria.
Can the immune system not reach these hidden areas?
No, there is no blood supply, so the immune system cannot reach this area and the bacteria thrive unhindered.
Are Root Canal teeth toxic?
What happens with these toxins?
These toxins enter the bone and blood stream and can end up anywhere in your body.
How can you test root treated teeth for toxicity?
Why leave a piece of dead and rotting tissue in the body?
If your toe would die your GP would tell you have a gangrene and recommend to have the toe cut off. He would certainly not recommend to leave it. Because he knows this will within a short period of time poison the body.
When is a Root Canal Treatment ok?
As an emergency treatment to reduce pain. If you are healthy person and understand the risks involved with a root canal treated tooth.
What are the alternatives to Root Canal?
The alternative to Root canal Treatment is to take antibiotics and hope for the best or have the tooth extracted.
What did Dr Weston Price’s experiments show?
Can Root Canal treated teeth affect other parts of the body?
Yes.
What is important when a Root Canal tooth is extracted?
Like with every extraction, the periodontal ligament must be removed and the socket cleaned and scraped out thoroughly. Best practice is to also rinse with Ozone gas to kill remaining bacteria in the socket and place PRF.
Can Ozone sterilize the dead tooth?
Unfortunately, no treatment is capable of sterilizing a tooth.
What to do if a Root Canal gets infected?
Mainstream opinion is to re-root treat the tooth and take antibiotics or perform an apicoectomy (remove the top part of the root). The alternative is extraction.
Can x-rays detect if a Root Canal tooth has a problem?
A lot of the times x-rays can show if there is a problem. Sometimes it is necessary to do more tests like the OROTOX or a CaviTAU scan.
What is a Focal Infection?
The theory assumes that an infection in one part of the body can cause symptoms in another part of the body. The way this was supposed to work was that the organisms from the infection site would break away into the blood stream and be carried around in the blood vessels. This theory has been extended in recent years to include the release of toxins from organisms which they give off as waste products.
When was the theory of Focal Infection first introduced?
Focal infection was a widely respected theory during the first half of the 20th century. Already mentioned in Dr. Thomas Bond’s Book “Dental Treaties” in 1848.
What are common dental sources of focal infections?
There are four main sources:
What is a Dental Cavitation?
Simply said, a dental cavitation is a hole in the jawbone.
Where do Cavitations develop?
Why do antibiotics not work to cure a cavitation?
Because the cavitation forms a slimy mucilaginous membrane to protect themselves from the immune system.
How do cavitations develop?
Cavitations develop when the blood supply to the bone is disrupted.
Can cavitations develop in other parts of the body?
Yes, they can develop in other bones too. E.g the leg.
How can a dental cavitation be diagnosed?
What is the most common reason for developing a cavitation?
How can the blood supply in the bone be disrupted?
How long does it take for a cavitation to develop?
This can take years or only a few months, it usually develops painless, no markers of an acute infection such as inflammation, redness or swelling.
Are there any blood markers that indicate a cavitation?
An increased inflammation marker RANTES/CCL5 are indicative for a cavitation.
Does it smell once a cavitation is opened for cleaning out?
Not all the times do we find a smell involved
If there is smell, there are two characteristic smells.
These smells are sometimes also present when a tooth is extracted or when cleaning out gum infections
What is a NICO?
What is the most common therapy?
The most common therapy at present is to surgically remove the osteonecrosis.
How is this therapy, also called surgical clean, carried out?
What other therapies are offered?
What is the Stabident method?
How successful is the Stabident method?
It might be possible to halt the defective bone from spreading but cannot cure the problem.
How does Ozone work in the necrotic bone?
Similar to the Stabident method it doesn’t cure the problem.
