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• In 1994, an international conference of health officials concluded there is no scientific evidence that dental amalgam presents a significant health hazard to the general population, although a small number of patients had mild, temporary allergic reactions. The World Health Organization (WHO), in its Consensus Statement on Dental Amalgam reached a similar conclusion. They wrote: "Amalgam restorations are safe and cost-effective…Components in dental restorative materials, including amalgam, may, in rare instances, result in local side-effects or allergic reactions. The risk of adverse side-effects is very low for all types of restorative materials, including amalgam and all resin-based materials. ...
• In January 1993, the USPHS published a broad scientific report about the safety and use of dental amalgam and other materials commonly used to fill dental cavities. ... This effort includes research and clinical studies of dental amalgam use in children. ...
• The USPHS concluded that data in these studies did not support claims that individuals with dental amalgam restorations will experience problems, including neurologic, renal or developmental effects, except for rare allergic or hypersensitivity reactions.
• For example, Health Canada recommended that dental amalgam be avoided in people allergic to mercury or with impaired kidney function; if possible, to avoid its placement or removal in the teeth of pregnant women; and to consider the use of alternatives in the primary teeth of children. ... If a manufacturer wishes to make a similar labeling change in its dental amalgam sold in the United States, FDA will require the manufacturer to submit a new marketing application with data supporting the change.
• FDA is examining its regulation of dental amalgam alloy, and pre-encapsulated dental amalgam. ...
• Other reasons for the decline in amalgam use include increasing use of sealants and community fluoridation, an expanding selection of fluoride-containing dental products, improved oral hygiene practices, and greater access to dental care. ...

• DENTAL AMALGAM FILLINGS PAGE.
• Dental Amalgam Fillings are the largest source of mercury in most people, and largest source of methyl mercury as well since other forms of mercury are methylated to methyl mercury in the body by bacteria, etc.
• The main reasons for common high exposures of mercury and other toxic metals from amalgam are mercury's negative vapor pressure which means that it is constantly vaporizing plus the galvanic currents(battery effect) created in the mouth by mixed metals that pumps mercury into the gums, jawbone, oral mucosa, and systemically is carried throughout the body by the blood and nerves. ...
• Mercury vapor or organic mercury readily crosses the blood-brain barrier and the placenta to a fetus, and accumulates to significant levels in the brain, CNS, motor neurons, hormone glands, and major organs such as the heart, kidneys, and liver in direct proportion to the number of amalgam filling surfaces. ...
• There are many thousands of clinical cases of cure or significant improvement in these conditions after proper amalgam replacement and treatment, as followed and documented by doctors. Some of the conditions that mercury has been documented to cause and which people have been documented to recover from after proper amalgam replacement or treatment include: periodontal disease, oral keratosis(pre cancer)), immune system, autoimmune problems , allergies, asthma, lupus, sinus problems, chronic headaches/ migraines, multiple chemical sensitivities, epilepsy, blood conditions, chron's disease, stomach problems, dizzyness/vertigo, arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Lou Gehrig's Disease(ALS), Parkinson's/ muscle tremor, Alzheimer's, muscular/joint pain/fibromyalgia , infertility, depression , autism, schizophrenia, ADD, depression, insomnia, anger, anxiety & mental confusion , susceptibility to infections , antibiotic resistant infection, endometriosis , Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(CFS) , tachycardia and heart problems , memory disorders , cancer(breast,etc. ...
• Dental Amalgam Mercury Syndrome, Inc. ... amalgam. ... They have lists of specially trained dentists in dealing with mercury and biocompatibility issues, and have issued several fact sheets documenting and summarizing common mercury exposure levels, adverse health and environmental effects of mercury from amalgam and other mercury sources. ...
• Mercury from dental office and human excretion from those with amalgam fillings has been found to be a significant source of mercury into the rivers and lakes significant enough to result in warnings regarding mercury levels in fish, to the extent that the mercury levels from amalgam results in higher levels of mercury in the water of home sewers of those with amalgams and in most U. ... Thus the Environmental Effects of Amalgam Dental Fillings are seen to be affecting everyone.
• FDA Amalgam Docket Review Page.

• Dangers of Amalgam (Mercury) Fillings.
• Mercury Exposure from your Amalgam Fillings? .
• State of California legislation regarding amalgam Is AMALGAM Safe? Dec. ... All Californian dentists who use Dental Amalgam must post the following warning clearly in their dental surgeries. All Amalgam manufacturers must display this warning on all amalgam sold in California.
• A New Law Concerning Amalgam COLORADO ACTION - Governor Roy Romer has signed into law a bill to increase access of the people of the state of Colorado to mercury-free dentistry.
• Amalgam-Related Illness FAQ 90+ articles on mercury.
• Scientifically Proven Facts About Mercury & Dental Amalgam Amalgam-Related Illness Articles.
• The HOLISTIC DENTAL ASSOCIATION Pamphlet on the SILVER AMALGAM dental filling situation.
• Abstract of Article in Int Arch Allerg Immunl Does Amalgam Affect the Immune System? A Controversial Issue. ...
• Another Amalgam, Root Canal Page.
• Mercury Homepage At this site you will find texts, links, abstracts related to mercury and amalgam as environmental and health issues, and the facts, prejudices, thoughts, ideas, that may be contained in them.
• Amalgam Fillings and Health.
• The Amalgam Issue.
• 150 years of dental amalgam Case reports spanning 150 years on the adverse effects of dental amalgam. ...
• Mercury Amalgam Safety: Rethinking Dangerous Decisions.

• DENTAL AMALGAM MERCURY POISONING .
• Amalgam, or what dentist sometimes call "silver fillings," is made from fifty percent mercury, thirty-five percent silver and fifteen percent tin, or tin mixed with copper, and a trace of zinc. ... Until the mid-1980s dentists assumed no mercury vapor was released from amalgam fillings. ...
• When removed from your mouth, dental amalgam is considered a toxic waste by the Environmental Protection Agency and must be handled in a certain way to protect dental office personnel from mercury poisoning. ...
• Hal Huggins, a dentist in Colorado Springs, Colorado has developed a protocol for amalgam removal and replacement, and in treating large numbers of MS and ALS patients has noticed improvement of symptoms in 91%. People who were wheelchair bound often get up and walk, sometimes on the same day as amalgam removal! .
• This much induced electrical activity must have an effect on the brain, and judging from the results of amalgam removal in some cases, this electrical activity must somehow cause or potentiate paralysis. ...
• Many people with severe longstanding depression are cured by amalgam removal and chelation. ...
• The official American Dental Association position on amalgam is that not enough mercury is released to pose a hazard this despite hard evidence to the contrary. Dental schools have long taught the rationalization that the mercury is bound to the silver in the amalgam and does not escape to poison the patient. ...
• If a dentist does not take this issue seriously, he or she may not be diligent in getting the last bit of amalgam out of each filling before covering it over with gold or composite. ...
• People who should be concerned about mercury intoxication, aside from those with dental amalgams in their mouths, are dentists, dental assistants, dental office personnel anyone who has been around the use of amalgam; people living in the vicinity of mercury mines even if those mines have been closed for years; people living around volcanoes active or dormant. ...
• Urine mercury concentration, according to Godfrey and Campbell, shows a sixty-fold increase after DMPS administration in people with amalgam, a thirty-fold increase in dental personnel without amalgams, and only a ten-fold increase in people who have had their amalgams removed followed by a course of chelation therapy. ...
• dentists, with some notable exceptions, disparage the idea of amalgam-associated mercury toxicity. ... Europe, led by Sweden, where dental amalgam is being phased out, is coming around to an official recognition of this problem. ...
• When having amalgam removed, you will be exposed to a large dose of mercury vapor. ...

• Amalgam / Mercury Dental Filling Toxicity.
• An often overlooked, but extremely important source of toxic material is the mercury from silver mercury amalgam fillings. ...
• Here are a few facts about mercury amalgam fillings:.
• In February, 1998, a group of the world's top mercury researchers announced that mercury from amalgam fillings can permanently damage the brain, kidneys, and immune system of children.
• Amalgam Fillings Linked to Neurological Problems, Gastrointestinal Problems.
• Amalgam Fillings Since 1970s Unstable.
• The type of mercury fillings that began to be used during the last couple of decades, non-gamma-2 (high copper), releases many times more mercury than the older style of amalgam fillings. Also, please see the article on the instability of dental amalgam fillings by Ulf Bengsston.
• Amalgam Fillings Release Highly Toxic Elemental Mercury.
• Amalgam Fillings Largest Source of Mercury By Far.
• Based on a number of studies in Sweden, the World Health Organization review of inorganic mercury in 1991 determined that mercury absorption is estimated to be approximately four times higher from amalgam fillings than from fish consumption. ...
• Mercury Amalgam Fillings Effect Porphyrins.
• Preliminary results from the first detailed biochemical analysis (scroll half-way down) of patients who removed mercury amalgam fillings showed a significant drop in the excretion of porphyrins (important to heme synthesis -- heme carries oxygen to red blood cells), as well as a number of other key biochemical changes. ...
• Mercury from amalgam fillings has been implicated as a possible contribuatory factor in some cases of Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, IBS, reproductive disorders, allergies, and a variety of other illnesses.
• Mercury Build Up in Brain, Organs and Breast Milk of Fetuses of Mothers With Amalgam Fillings.
• A recent study published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine related to the proper removal of mercury amalgam fillings from 118 subjects showed an elimination or reduction or 80% of the classic mercury poisoning symptoms. In many cases, it took 6 to 12 months after mercury amalgam removal for the symptoms to disappear.

• amalgam fillings -Twelve Points on Mercury Toxicity.
• I have found only two people in all my testing who have not evidenced a continual toxic exposure to mercury vapor emanating from silver amalgam dental fillings under normal chewing compression. ... To the contrary, all evidence indicates that silver amalgam containing approximately 50% mercury is a source of extremely toxic elemental mercury adversely affecting the health of the human body. Evidence now demonstrates that surface particles of the amalgam filling material are being chemically broken down and released into the oral cavity. ...
• The presence of mercury in dental amalgam fillings has been shown conclusively to adversely affect the body's immune response. It has been shown that after amalgam removal the red and white blood cell levels tend to seek normal range with a corresponding increase in the body's immune response as evidenced by Tlymphocyte count increase. ...
• Many of the world authorities on mercury and mercury toxicity met to discuss the issue of dental amalgam and other materials used in dentistry. Their official conclusion was drafted and signed which read: Based on the known toxic potential of mercury and its documented release from dental amalgams, usage of mercury containing amalgam increases the health risk of the patients, the dentists and the dental personnel. ...
• Autopsy studies from Sweden and Germany show a positive statistical correlation between the number of occlusal surfaces of dental amalgam and mercury levels in the brain and kidney cortex. ...
• David Eggleston of the University of California, found a Tlymphocyte count of 47% (ideal levels are between 7980%) in patients with silver amalgam fillings. ...
• Mercury is contained in most dental filling material and all silver amalgam material. ...
• With all this in mind we cannot fool with mercury toxicity or delay the "safe" removal of silver amalgam fillings by the hands of a knowledgeable and responsible dentist. ...
• Perhaps the most obvious symptom of mercury toxicity in dental amalgam cases is Lichen in areas of mouth in contact with fillings. ...
• Amalgam filling removal has been shown to help arthritis, exercise induced asthma and MS. ...
• Exercise-induced anaphylaxis: improvement after removal of amalgam in dental caries. ...
• Abstract: We present a case of exercise-induced anaphylaxis with improvement following the removal of dental amalgam. Although her symptoms were unresponsive to various kinds of therapy until removal of the amalgam, her symptoms related to exercise improved remarkably after the removal. ...

•  Dental Amalgam: .
• Amalgam Use and Benefits .
• Amalgam Risks .
• Policies on Dental Amalgam .
• I: The Benefits of Dental Amalgam .
• III: Evaluation of Risks Associated With Mercury Vapor from Dental Amalgam .
• VII: Government and Professional Organization Policy Statements on Dental Amalgam and PHS Position Paper - Environmental Contamination from Mercury: Relationship to Recommendations Concerning Amalgam Use in Europe and United States .
• VIII: Potential Biological Consequences of Mercury Released From Dental Amalgam .

• Representative Watson is also convinced that the mercury in the "silver" (really amalgam) fillings used by dentists around the world is hazardous to the health of everyone with such fillings, afflicting them with a wide variety of illnesses. ...
• The bill would also require, beginning as early as this July, that mercury intended for use in amalgam be labeled "Dental amalgam contains approximately 50 percent mercury, a highly toxic element. ...
• Yet there's that amalgam hang-up. ...
• While still a state senator, Watson got the California legislature to pass a law that required the state dental board to issue a document evaluating dental materials and focusing specifically on the risks of amalgam. The resulting dental board document conceded that "small amounts of free mercury may be released from amalgam filings over time," but that they were "far below the established safe levels. ...
• The mercury in amalgam, it turns out, is not free, but mixed with silver, tin and copper, metals to which it bonds chemically to form a crystalline metallic — and safe — alloy. ... Yet, like those in water, amalgam's components are tightly bonded to each other. "Saying that amalgam will poison you," Baratz insists, "is like saying that drinking water will make you explode and burst into flames. ...
• Department of Health and Human Services, which reported that "there is scant evidence that the health of a vast majority of people with amalgam is compromised" and the American Dental Association, which concluded that "there currently appears to be no justification for discontinuing the use of dental amalgam. ...
• Then where does Watson get her information? Apparently from a small, but vocal, minority of dentists, many of who also decry fluoridation of water and make questionable use of "mercury meters" and voltmeters to convince patients with amalgam fillings that they are at risk. They advocate the removal of existing amalgam fillings — a procedure that could undoubtedly bring them many new patients and enhance their business. ... Entitled "Poison in Your Mouth," it gave a respectful and misleading hearing to the anti-amalgam crowd. ...
• Perhaps the most influential and leading anti-amalgamist was a Colorado dentist named Hal Huggins, who assailed amalgam fillings in a 1985 book entitled "It's All in Your Head," promoted his views in seminars, private consultations and through his Toxic Element Research Foundation. Huggins blamed the mercury in amalgam for a wide variety of illnesses, ranging from depression to epilepsy to Hodgkin's disease and was a pioneer in recommending the removal of all amalgam fillings. For all of Huggins's energy and efforts, his dental license was revoked in 1996, the administrative law judge concluding that he had diagnosed "mercury toxicity" in all his patients, including some without amalgam fillings. ...
• Get over your amalgam hang-up and learn not to be taken in by quacks. ...

• Evidence Implicating Amalgam in Alzheimer's Disease.
• Kip Sullivan is an attorney from Minneapolis that has recovered from an "incurable" illness after having his amalgam fillings removed. ...
• " Because amalgam is the dominant source of human exposure to mercury, one may paraphrase this conclusion as follows: "Chronic low level exposure to mercury from amalgam should be considered as a factor in AD. ...
• The typical amalgam filling is 50% mercury, 30% silver, and 20% other metals. The appendix presents the research which documents the conclusion that mercury escapes amalgam and accumulates in tissue throughout the body, including the brain. ...
• Mercury escapes from the amalgam in three ways: (a) corrosion, caused by electrical currents passing through the filling; (b) what one expert calls "direct dry evaporation;" and (c) removal of small pieces of the fillings caused by chewing. ... Several of these mercury burden studies found a correlation between the number of amalgam surfaces and mercury levels in the brain. ...
• Over the last four or five years, a substantial body of evidence has emerged which indicates that most of the mercury absorbed by people in industrial nations comes from their amalgam fillings. ...
• If the correct figure for absorption of mercury from amalgam turns out to be 8 ug, then the total mercury absorbed per day from all sources -- the environment plus amalgam -- is 10. ... This means amalgam mercury constitutes three-fourths of all mercury absorbed by the body (8 ug is 75% of 10. ...
• In a 1995 report prepared for Health Canada (Canada's national health department), Richardson estimated that amalgam mercury constitutes half of the mercury absorbed daily by adult Canadians. ...
• Whether amalgam mercury is the source of 50% of all mercury absorbed, as Richardson's data indicates, or three-fourths, as the WHO data suggests, mercury from amalgams contributes a substantial portion of the mercury absorbed each day, not a "very small" portion as the ADA would have the public believe. ...
• The authors noted that 300 micrograms is "a level detectable in mouths of some human subjects with large numbers of amalgam fillings. ...
• The authors divided 129 nuns into five groups depending on how many teeth and how much occlusal amalgam surface they had. ... The reader is led to think, in other words, that the edentulous (toothless) nuns were the least likely to get AD because their amalgam load at the time of the study was lower than that of nuns in the other four categories. ... If amalgam mercury causes AD in elderly women, it does so over decades, beginning possibly when the women got their first fillings, which for most people occurs when they are children. ... " "In fact," note the authors in an attempt to get the reader to think the edentulous group was the control group, "the group with the highest amalgam surface area had the same mean Mini-Mental State Examination score as the edentulous group. ...

• The Mercury Amalgam Scam: .
• Mercury is a component of the amalgam used for "silver" fillings. ... Amalgam's ingredients are tightly bonded to each other. Although the types of chemical bonds in water and amalgam differ, saying that amalgam will poison you is just as wrong as saying that drinking water will make you explode and burst into flames.
• Very sensitive instruments can detect billionths of a gram of mercury vapor in the mouth of a person with amalgam fillings. ... One study found that people with symptoms they related to amalgam fillings did not have significant mercury levels. ... Some studies have shown that the problems patients attribute to amalgam restorations are psychosomatic in nature and have been exacerbated greatly by information from the media or from a dentist 7-11 .
• Department of Health and Human Services concluded that "there is scant evidence that the health of the vast majority of people with amalgam is compromised or that removing fillings has a beneficial effect on health. " 12 In January 1998, the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs issued a report on dental amalgam safety, with emphasis on studies that had been published since the 1993 review. ...
• Millions of people have amalgam restorations in their mouths, and millions more will receive amalgam for restoring their carious decayed teeth. Over the years, amalgam has been used for dental restorations without evidence of major health problems. Newly developed techniques have demonstrated that minute levels of mercury are released from amalgam restorations, but no health consequences from exposure to such low levels of mercury released from amalgam restorations have been demonstrated. Given the available scientific information and considering the demonstrated benefits of dental amalgams, unless new scientific research dictates otherwise, there currently appears to be no justification for discontinuing the use of dental amalgam 13 .
• Despite these facts, a small but vocal group of dentists, physicians and various other "holistic" advocates claim that mercury-amalgam fillings are a health hazard and should be replaced. ...
• Since then he has crusaded against the use of amalgam and limited his practice to advice on these matters.
• He recommends replacing mercury fillings with other materials and taking vitamins and other supplements to prevent trouble following amalgam removal.

• 2 During the removal or placement of amalgam the patient can be exposed to amounts which are a thousand times greater than the EPA allowable concentration. ... Polishing amalgam can create very dangerous levels of mercury and should be avoided especially for the mercury toxic patient. 3) All patients having amalgam removed or placed should be provided with an alternative air source and instructed to not breathe through their mouth during treatment. ... Some evidence exist to support both views since high levels of mercury and amalgam particles can be found under the dam. ... Some experts feel that it is better to remove the amalgam first and then apply the dam if needed for restorative procedures. ... Levels over 1000 mg/M3 are measurable upon opening an amalgam mixing capsule. ... 1 IAOMT Standards of Care Preferred Procedure Approved 9/27/92 2 EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Health and Environment Assessment Mercury health effects update Final Report EPA-600/8-84-019F 1971 EPA 3 Cooley RL, Barkmeier WW: Mercury vapor emitted during ultraspeed cutting of amalgam. ...

• Evaluation of Risks Associated With Mercury Vapor from Dental Amalgam.
• In the United States, the most common dental restorative material is amalgam containing about 50 percent mercury at the time of mixing with various silver alloys. ...
• Exposure to mercury from amalgam occurs through several avenues: inhalation of air containing elemental mercury released from the amalgam; ingestion of amalgam particles abraded from restored surfaces and of saliva into which both elemental and corrosion produced inorganic mercury products have dissolved; and ingestion of amalgam particles generated during dental restorative procedures (placement, restoration, or removal) (3-5). Another source of exposure to elemental and inorganic mercury is "tattooing," which may be created when, as amalgam is being removed, amalgam particles are physically embedded in soft tissue adjacent to the restoration area (6).
• In this document, we evaluate exposure to mercury from dental amalgam restorations through a review of the significant literature that describes the evidence for possible health effects produced from exposure to mercury from this source. ...
• In many studies of mercury exposure from amalgam dental restorations, investigators report results as total blood mercury. These data blur the distinction between elevations of the inorganic mercury in blood (due to exposure to mercury vapor from amalgam restorations) and organic mercury in blood (due to dietary exposures, usually methylmercury).
• Unfortunately, this is not the case in low-level exposures, such as to mercury released from amalgam dental restorations. ...
• Elemental mercury, the focus of this document, makes up about 50 percent by weight of dental amalgam when it is mixed. Atoms of elemental mercury continuously diffuse from the amalgam used as a dental restorative (30-33). This molecular diffusion proceeds from the amalgam through the amalgam oxide, the saliva, and the air boundary layers into air flowing through the mouth. Each of these layers provides some resistance to the movement of elemental mercury from the amalgam into the mouth air flow. Chewing, brushing, and other abrasive stress on exposed surfaces of dental amalgam can alter the protective characteristics of the oxide layer and increase the rate at which elemental mercury is released (30-32).
• In addition to the release of elemental mercury to the mouth air, amalgam also releases inorganic mercury (Hg++) as a corrosion product (29,30). ...
• Making the assumption that this mercury release rate from amalgam to saliva is constant throughout the day, these data give a range for mercury ingestion from this source from 2. ...
• Because persons with dental amalgam restorations continuously inhale mercury vapor, these data suggests that their exhaled breath always contains a small quantity of mercury vapor excreted from their lungs. However, this contributes only a very small amount to the total mercury vapor present in the exhaled breath of persons with dental amalgam restorations.

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