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Studies Find High
Mercury Exposure and Adverse Effects from Dental Amalgam:
1. Mercury is
the most toxic substance that people commonly are exposed to. The U.S. EPA
drinking water standard is 2 parts per billion. Mercury is
in the top 3 of toxic exposures affecting large numbers of people.
(1,4)
2. Dental amalgam is an
unstable mixture of 50% liquid mercury with other toxic metals including
copper, silver, tin. Since mercury is a gas at room temperature it
vaporizes continuously from the amalgam mixture resulting in high levels of
mercury in the oral air and saliva, as can be easily measured. Since amalgam is
also a mixture of metals in an electrolyte (saliva) this results in
galvanic currents
that pump mercury
and other toxic metals into the gums and oral mucosa, from which it is carried
throughout the body by the blood and nerves. Exposure from amalgam or gold
crowns over amalgam base result in exposure to all 3 forms of mercury, since
inorganic mercury or vapor are converted to organic mercury in the intestines
by bacteria. amalgam fillings are the largest source of methyl mercury in many
people who have amalgams. Mercury vapor and organic mercury both readily
cross the blood-brain barrier and are dispersed in the
brain. (17,18,13-15,24,27,32,34)
3. Dental Amalgam
Fillings are the Largest Source of Mercury in Most People who have amalgam
fillings (2-22,32), and Daily Mercury Exposure from Amalgam Commonly
Exceeds Government Health Standards for Inorganic Mercury(vapor). Exposure
to
EMF or Wi-fi
increases mercury vapor release in
amalgams and causes increased chronic damage.
Susceptibility factors
that decrease the
body�s
detoxification ability against toxic metals is a major factor in who is
affected and to what extent. (4,10,19,21,32,34)
4. Medical tests show
that those with several amalgam fillings have on average 10 times more mercury
in feces and saliva than those without amalgam, and after amalgam
replacement levels of mercury in feces and saliva decline approx. 90%, while
mercury level in urine declines 75% on
average. (19,13-15)
5. Elemental
and inorganic mercury are methylated in the body to methyl mercury by bacteria,
yeasts, etc. so that amalgam fillings are the largest source of methyl mercury
in many people who have amalgams
(17,18,13-15)
6. Mercury
from amalgam is passed on to fetuses and infants through
mother�s
blood and milk, and
Mother�s
dental amalgam fillings
are the largest source of mercury in most fetuses and infants prior to mercury
containing vaccinations (12,26,21,32). One flu vaccination (or other
vaccination that contains 25 micrograms of mercury thimerosal) exceeds the
Canadian health standard for daily mercury exposure to an infant by a factor of
250 and for a child by a factor of 100(20).
7. Dental
amalgam is the largest source of mercury in most children who have amalgam
fillings other than from vaccines, and mercury level is directly proportional
to the number of mercury fillings (11,21,32). Developmental
effects on infants occur at low levels of mercury
exposure and many thousands are known to be affected.
Autistic children had a higher mercury
exposure during pregnancy due to maternal dental amalgam and
thimerosal-containing immunoglobulin shots(12b). In vitro, mercury and
thimerosal in levels found several days after vaccination inhibit methionine
synthetase (MS) by 50%. Normal function of MS is crucial in biochemical steps
necessary for brain development, attention and production of glutathione, an
important antioxidative and detoxifying agent.
Autistic children
have significantly decreased level of reduced glutathione.
(25,26,12)
8.
Mercury vapor from amalgam is the most dangerous form of
mercury, most rapidly crossing blood-brain barrier and
mother�s
placenta
and
causing adverse developmental effects at lower levels than other forms.
Mercury
and other toxic metals commonly cause immune reactivity which is a factor in
many chronic conditions
(
28,26,21,29,33)
9. In
addition to the high mercury volatility and galvanic currents between
mixed metals
in the
mouth, electromagnetic fields (
EMF
) from appliances such as computer monitors,
cell phone, and wi-fis cause currents in the metals which carry mercury into
the
body.
(24,21)
10. Mercury in those
with amalgam fillings or dental workers accumulates to much higher levels in
the major body organs like the brain, heart, liver, and kidneys that receive a
lot of blood than in those without amalgam. Mercury blocks or
damages metabolic or hormonal processes in all organs at very low levels of
exposure. (16,21,22,32)
11. Chronic
a
dverse health effects from amalgam are
common in adults. Mercury is extremely cytotoxic, neurotoxic,
immunotoxic
, endocrine disrupting, inflammatory, and a
reproductive toxin. Mercury commonly causes chronic
neurologica
l,
immune
and autoimmune
,
cardiovascular
,
hormonal
,
oral
, and
reproductive
conditions
. (1,27,23,22,21,32)
12. Those who replace
amalgam fillings and reduce body mercury levels commonly recover or see
significant improvement, as documented by peer-reviewed studies and
thousands of clinical
case
histories. (23,31,21,32)
13. Dental Amalgam is
the largest source of
mercury in sewers
and sewer sludge, and thus a major source
in water bodies, fish, crops, and the atmosphere- due to sludge
outgasing
and high emissions
from crematoria (30).
Documentation:
Special interests like the ADA which
was founded to support use of dental amalgam have been successfully
misleading the public
regarding the true
nature of dental amalgam for years by use of misinformation, money, and
politics to suppress the truth. But the science is clear that dental amalgam is
a mixture of approximately 50 % liquid mercury with various metals including
copper, silver, tin to form an unstable alloy that results in
high levels
of toxic
metal exposure including mercury over time. Since mercury is a gas
at room temperature the mercury vaporizes continuously from the amalgam,
resulting in high levels of mercury in the oral air and saliva, as is easily
measured(
13-18).
Additionally
since amalgam is a mixture of metals in an electrolyte (saliva) this
produces galvanic currents (
battery effect
) that pumps
mercury and other toxic metals into the gums and oral mucosa, from which it is
taken by the blood and nerves throughout the body (24,21). Approximately 80% of
the mercury in the oral air is absorbed by the blood in the lungs (7,24) and
is distributed throughout the body, along with the other mercury released by
amalgam, rapidly passing out of the blood, crossing cell membranes and
accumulating in the major organs that receive large amounts of blood- the
brain, heart, liver, kidneys, and hormone
glands(
16). Over
time this, along with exposures to other
synergistic toxics
, commonly results
in chronic degenerative health conditions affecting all major body organs, as
has been well documented in the medical literature (21,22).
A
large National Institute of Dental Research study has confirmed other previous
study results that found that the current type of amalgam dental fillings being
used in the U.S. leak significant amounts of extremely toxic mercury into the
body and are the number one source of mercury in people
(5,2-21). The study measured mercury levels in the blood and urine
of over 1000 military personnel and found a high significant correlation to the
number of amalgam filling surfaces in the mouth. Like several other
recent studies, the study found that amalgam fillings are not stable because of
mercury’s high volatility and galvanic action between the different metals in
the mouth. For this large military population that had a range of
from 0 to 66 amalgam filling surfaces, each 10 surfaces added approximately 1
microgram of mercury per liter of urine excreted, meaning total mercury
excreted in urine averaged about 3.1 micrograms per day, with soldier’s levels
with over 49 amalgam surfaces averaging over 8.7 micrograms in
urine. The average level for those with fillings was 4.5 times that
of the controls without amalgam, and those with over 49 surfaces averaged over
8 times controls without amalgam. Together with the considerably larger amount
of mercury excreted daily through the digestive tract and sweat, the daily
mercury excretion would amount to over 30 micrograms per day on average and
much more for some individuals, as supported by other studies and medical lab tests
(6,15,19,30) (Over 90 % of the mercury in the urine was inorganic mercury, the
kind that comes from fillings, but the majority of mercury in blood was methyl
mercury. Inorganic mercury has been found to be methylated in the
mouth and intestines to methyl mercury by bacteria, yeasts, etc. so that dental
fillings are the largest source of methyl mercury in most dental staff or
people with amalgam fillings (18,17,7,13-15,21,29).
For this population, it
was determined that the exposure from amalgam fillings was the primary source
of mercury exposure, and on average the exposure exceeded the levels that would
be consistent with U.S. Government Standards (MRL) for daily mercury exposure
(20). The study’s findings were consistent with the findings
of many other recent such studies (21,24), including a similar study testing
20,000 people at a University Health Clinic in Germany (6), as well as the
findings of the World Health Organization Scientific Panel on inorganic mercury
exposure and U.S. ATSDR (4).
Because of the extreme
toxicity of mercury, the U.S. EPA drinking water standard for mercury is 2
parts per billion, which allows for not over 4 micrograms per day mercury
exposure for an average adult. The U.S.EPA mercury health
guideline for elemental mercury exposure (vapor) is 0.3 micrograms per
cubic meter of air (0.3 ug/M3). For the average adult breathing
20 M3 of air per day, this amounts to an exposure of approximately 6 micrograms
per day. The U.S. Department of Health, Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ASTDR) standard (MRL) ‑for acute inhalation exposure to
mercury vapor is 0.2 micrograms Hg/M3, which translates to approx.
4 ug/day for the average adult (20). The EPA health guideline for
methyl mercury is 0.1 ug/kg body weight per day or 7 ug for the
average adult (4,20), and the MRL for methyl mercury is 0.3 ug/kg
body weight/day (4).
The corresponding
tolerable daily exposure developed in a report for the Canadian Health Agency,
Health Canada, is .014 ug/kg body weight or 1 ug/day for average
adult (2). The permissible level for a child would be
less. But the levels of the average daily exposures found in this
study and other studies (6-10,19) were above all of these health
guidelines for mercury
exposure.
The reference average
level of mercury in feces
(dry
weight) for those tested at
Doctors Data Lab
with amalgam
fillings is .26 mg/kg, compared to the reference average level for those
without amalgam fillings of .02 mg/kg (19).
(over 10 times that of the
population w/o amalgam).
A Swedish lab that does fecal
tests for mercury had similar results (19). Tests on people who have had
amalgam replaced likewise confirm these results (13-15).
Government
and Scientific panels
as well as large numbers of medical studies have
confirmed dental mercury amalgam is the number one source of mercury in most
people and affects millions (2-22,30)
In a large study of a group with amalgams, a group without
amalgams, and a group that had undergone amalgam replacement- using saliva
mercury measurements, it was concluded that amalgam is the main source of
organic mercury in most people. Those with amalgams on average had
more than 4 times as much organic mercury as either group without
amalgam. Those with amalgam had over 10 times the total mercury as
those without (18).
And mercury from fish was
controlled for in the study and not a factor in these
results. Mercury vapor and inorganic mercury are well documented to
be methylated to methyl mercury in the mouth and intestines by bacteria, yeast,
and other methyl donors. These results are similarly supported by
other studies (7,13-15,17,29).
The main reasons for the high exposure levels from mercury are the
high volatility of mercury (which is vaporizing constantly at room
temperature) and the galvanic currents in the mouth generated by mixed metals
in an electrolyte(saliva
)(
24). Mercury has
a relatively high vapor pressure and vaporizes at room
temperature. The rate of mercury volatilization is directly related
to temperature so in the body it is even more volatile. The vapor
saturation concentration in air of 20 milligrams of mercury per cubic meter of
air is much higher than the safety limit. The ATSDR
safety standard (MRL) for mercury is 0.2 micrograms of mercury per cubic
meter of air. Thus, mercury readily vaporizes to above the MRL
level. Studies have found that on average for each additional
amalgam filling, the level of mercury in saliva increases by 1.5 micrograms
per Liter (6,21), while for each additional 10 amalgam surfaces the amount
of mercury in urine increases by 1 microgram per liter
(5,21). Saliva and feces have the highest levels of mercury that are
measurable by tests. Many studies have overlooked the fact that
metal crowns over amalgam cause exposure levels as much as amalgam fillings,
and also taking them into account would improve precision of regression
equations for the level of mercury (24).
Other studies in addition to
the studies that the Government Health Standards were based on have found
adverse health effects at very low levels of
exposure(
4,21)
and developmental effects on infants and children at very low levels of
exposure(25,26,12), along with finding that mercury vapor from a mother’s
fillings is readily transferred through the mother’s blood across the placenta
to a fetus and also through mother’s milk(26,21).
These findings increase the
urgency to advise the public of the clear danger in the use of mercury in
fillings and to reconsider the policy of using mercury in dental
fillings. Based on such studies, several other countries, such
as Sweden, Australia, Norway, Japan, and Canada, have already adopted
restrictions or warnings on the use of mercury in fillings, such as for
children, pregnant women, women of child bearing age, people with damaged
kidneys or immune systems, and in the mouth adjacent to other metals
(21). Amalgam manufacturers have also warned against some of the
uses currently made of amalgam in dentistry in the U.S. (21)
Studies are also
available that confirm adverse health effects from amalgam fillings
(23,27,22,21,32) and clinically document that many thousands of people have
recovered or had significant improvement in over 40 chronic conditions
including very serious autoimmune and neurological conditions after replacement
of amalgam fillings (23,31,22,21,32). Fact sheets are available from
the DAMS website with cites to over 4,000 medical study references covering the
statements and issues in this press release.
DAMS is currently working with thousands of people in the
U.S. dealing with serious health effects caused by exposure to mercury from
amalgam and urges everyone to find out more about this major problem and to get
involved in resolving these health safety issues. DAMS can provide
information and help to anyone who is interested or who thinks they might have
health problems related to their amalgam fillings.
(
www.myflcv.com/indexd.html
)
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(most in Medline) documenting common high mercury exposures from amalgam, that
vapor from amalgam is the most dangerous form of mercury to the fetus, and the
mechanisms by which mercury causes over 40 chronic health conditions
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Blood Test
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; consider
using - The
Quicksilver Sci.
Tri Test
:
or
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test
or
Melisa Immune Reactivity
Test
,
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Dental
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and has
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; &
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34. The International Academy of Oral
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Dental Mercury Facts
technical contact person: B
Windham
berniew1@embarqmail.com 850-878-9024
Research Director DAMS Intl
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