Q50: Are there any known problems with mercury amalgams?

Q51: How do I know if my mercury amalgams are affecting my health?

Q52: My dentist says that I have silver amalgams?

Q53: Are all dental amalgams the same?

Q54: Should I get dentures instead of fillings?

Q55: Can't I just get implants instead of fillings?

DENTISTS

Q56: Why hasn't my dentist told me of the dangers of amalgams?

Q57: If the research has indicated a problem for so long, ...?

Q58: Do dental journals carry articles on mercury amalgams?

Q59: Do university instructors inform their students about amalgam research?

Q60: Do dentists intentionally mislead the public?

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

Q61: Why does my doctor not know more about dental health?

Q62: Can my doctor prescribe the removal of my amalgams?

Q63: What is the role of the government in this question?

OTHER DENTAL OPTIONS

Q64: Are there safer dental fillers than mercury amalgams?

Q50: Are there any known problems with mercury amalgams?

SUMMARY: Yes, many.

There are so many problems and they have existed for so long that you are directed to

Mercury Toxicity for a summary of Symptoms and research;

A Listing of Research References for

A Personal Example for

Q51: How do I know if my mercury amalgams are affecting my health?

SUMMARY: The only simple, direct manner for most people is to have them replaced with non-amalgams and note any difference in energy level or reduction in the kinds of symptoms associated with mercury toxicity.

Mercury toxicity portrays itself with such a wide and varying spectrum of symptoms that it is usually mistaken for many other illnesses. Since your mercury toxicity may be the result of a number of sources, it may be wise to first try and determine if you have a mercury toxicity.

As mercury is deposited in our cells rather than being left to circulate in our blood, testing of blood is unreliable. The levels in our blood can vary hourly according to what we have eaten that may influence the mercury in our cells to come partly out into the blood. Also remember that if you have had your amalgams replaced in the past 3 years, they will not likely be leaking, yet, you may have a store of mercury in your cells from earlier leakages. Here are a few options:

You can:

- use Spiritual Guidance to determine if your amalgams are leaking.

- have yourself muscle tested for the presence of mercury.

- follow the Suggestions mentioned on the earthtym.net site.

- use a detoxification compound and note if symptoms of mercury toxicity appear or increase.

Q52: My dentist says that I have silver amalgams?

SUMMARY: When an industry chooses to conceal the truth, you should know something is wrong.

In all cases there is more than 50% mercury in mercury-silver amalgams. In fact there may be an assortment of other metals beyond the mercury which replace some of the silver presence.

In true marketing fashion, the consumer has been encouraged to believe what they would feel comfortable with, rather than the scientific facts. Anyone who knows anything about chemistry or biology is aware that mercury compounds represent one of the largest uniform sources of oxygen-dependent lifeform destroyers and mutators. So, by relabeling the compound "silver" which most people consider to be an inert influence on lifeforms, everything sounds safe.

From a promotional viewpoint, everyone recognizes that silver is a precious metal. It is true that some people will buy an item only because it conveys an image of richness, sophistication, elitism, specialness to their weak identity. This strategy was quite successful in hooking people on cigarettes, liquor, coffee, tea, cigars, and possessions for the past 150 years. It has obviously worked very effectively.

No manufacturer wants customers who question too much. No patent-holder wants customers or practitioners to doubt the safety of their product. No industry journal wants to lose its benefactors and advertisers and have to double or triple their subscription fees. Few scientists want to lose the funding for their research and become unemployed.

No university professor wants to lose the journals which publicize their articles and the research of their student to thereby make them more popular. Few students wants to directly challenge their professor and risk failing. All dentists begin as students who read journals, seek recognition in those journals, and pursue a career with the least of complications.

When mercury-silver amalgams first began to spread into dental practice, the American Dental Association held the patent. The industry developed dependency incestuous relationships. In a world of competition and uncertainty, it is always easy to eliminate anarchy by creating a monopoly, or, allowing a monopoly to be created. Most of the advancements of the past 150 years have been based on the same principle and process. Of course you have silver amalgams. It is just that there is more mercury than silver in them. Do you also have nylon tires, copper phones, and graphite pencils?

What a deadly web we weave when we practice to deceive.

The prize: Power.

The reward: Easy money.

The result: Fraud.

The reason: Every willing victim believes they are getting more than they are paying for.

The truth: They are!

Q53: Are all dental amalgams the same?

SUMMARY: No.

For a more extensive outline of what some of the differences are, review the article summaries HERE.

Q54: Should I get dentures instead of fillings?

SUMMARY: Perhaps, but not likely.

There are many factors to consider about YOUR personal situation before you can make an informed decision. A quick guess now you may regret later. Here are some points you should know the answers to:

• Are you in pain now? Must you make a decision quickly?
• How much does each cost for you; Can you afford both equally?
• Do you have a large number of either cavities or fillings?
• Are your cavities and fillings all quite large?
• How many of your teeth are you missing now?
• Do you have other oral problems/infections?
• Have you obtained at least 2 assessments?

Remember that if you have dentures made, you can seldom go back to having gum implanted teeth. And if you have a lot of new fillings, they will require replacement again at some later time so that they do not become toxic, discolor, or break.

Q55: Can't I just get implants instead of fillings?

SUMMARY: Often, No.

Implants require a healthy solid gum to be placed into.
Some gum diseases, and the majority of North Americans statistically have them, deteriorate the gums and reduce the gum tissue to leave a poor foundation to add implants to.

Many people lose bone mass as they age with the upper jaw often diminishing faster than the lower. Other people may lose bone mass through a lack of sufficient exercise. Yes, exercise influences blood and lymph circulation, and they, influence bone health. A good dentist should be able to provide you with a measure of your jaw health and robustness.

Placing implants where they cannot be adequately supported is likely to raise many problems later. If you have a choice of dental fillers, you may wish to consider the benefits of each according to cost, longevity, and appearance.

Implants can cost more than 10 times that of fillings. Depending on your age, they may last 5 to 10 times longer than the recommended longevity of fillings. Fillings can usually be replaced or added in one procedure. Implants are a multi-procedure technology which may span weeks.

Personal choices have personal factors to be accounted for if the solution is going to be personally successful.

Q56: Why hasn't my dentist told me about the dangers of amalgams?

SUMMARY: Ignorance, shyness, doesn't want the hassle --- take you pick.

Like many institutionally supported health practitioners, how will they know if the institution shields them from the facts? Most North American institutions seek to manifest the commercial dream of efficiency through mass production. You take a group of students, cram as much information in as they can absorb, judge them on how well them can repeat it back to you, assume that decision-making by association is as good or better than extended processes of evaluation involving feedback and, personal professional development including personal research. Now give them a certificate, motivate them with huge educational and practice setup debts, and, encourage them to adopt exaggerated patient loads. When are they going to have any time to read research reports and foreign journals?

The predicament they have been placed into is one in which their instructors, the North American researchers being published, and, the older dentists they look to as mentors --- choose to ignore and deny the facts known around the world. For the dental initiate, there is no time to learn what the industry does not want you to know. And, there is only an air of learning regression from those who should be showing leadership: "Don't waste your time. If mercury amalgams presented any danger, they would have been banned long ago!"

Surprise. Surprise. Surprise!
They have been banned by many large, progressive countries outside of North America. Check the facts on the site and in the research and common newspapers. You can start HERE

Q57: If the research has indicated a problem for so long, how can my dentist not know about it?

SUMMARY: Why would he or she want to risk losing their professional credibility and licensing?

Institutions train their members to follow orders and accept an appointed human authority. All are rewarded for doing their job according to specific standards and routines or face discipline that will jeopardize their career.

We are all told from our youngest grade and through the imprinting influence of television and movies, that the government, university professors, researchers, and doctors are next to perfect. How can I accept that the system can be so fragile as to allow the people in each of these roles to ignore the truth, deny the truth, cover the truth up for power-position-money? If I do that, I, if I am a dentist, must question the value of my own expertise and training as a dentist. Can I do that?

My career, my integrity, my self-acceptance, my inclusion in the professional community, my patient's respect --- all depend upon my following my orders and procedures to the best of my ability. How can I jeopardize that? It can't be possible. How can I accept that I have spent all this time and money and effort to get where I am, and, then accept that I have been deceived and manipulated. I can't believe that. I don't want to believe that. If I ignore it, it will go away. After all, most other dentists are doing it.

Check out some of the manipulation of the facts HERE.

Q58: Do dental journals carry articles on mercury amalgams?

SUMMARY: Yes, especially if they originate outside North America.

Check out some of the research facts HERE.
Check out some of the manipulation of the facts HERE.

Q59: Do university instructors inform their students about amalgam research?

SUMMARY: To know that, you will have to ask the students and their professors.

Let's be fair. We have several options here.

• The professors don't tell the students about the research.
• The professors tell the student to ignore the research as bogus.
• The students listen to the professors teach about it, then forget.
• The students rebel against the professor's and disbelieve them.
• The universities cannot afford to purchase the research journals.
• Some of the above with differences from class to class.

It is your guess as to how typical this professor was of those who teach.

Q60: Do dentists intentionally mislead the public?

SUMMARY: Personally, I don't believe so.

In the studies which have been carried out involving dental assistants and dentists as subjects along with patients and the general public, the consistent finding is that dentists and dental assistants typically have higher levels of mercury in their bodies than their patients do.

Review the information on the earthtym.net site regarding Symptoms and then consider some possible explanations as to why so many resist the possibility of the truth of findings different from what they were taught. Keep in mind that for many decades, Dentists occupied one of the two professional categories that displayed the highest rates of suicide. Symptoms of depression and memory impairment are frequently present and can be devastating. Add to these reduced mental capacity and irritability, and you had better not challenge --- or even appear to challenge that person's intelligence.

Mercury poisoning intolerance possibly keeps many dentists from being capable of considering the option of mercury toxicity. That is part of the tragedy of the disease. You are too dumb to recognize the problem for what it is. That was also part of my experience. Until you recover, you are a most unusual person to be able to be humble enough, and, assertive enough --- to demand a solution no matter what barriers it breaks down. The disease pacifies and dumbs you out. If you have authority, you can react by being dominant, and, by just not hearing.

Q61: Why does my doctor not know more about dental health?

SUMMARY: In Canada, we have the political sanction of healthcare monopolies that are self-regulated and stratified. General practitioners, by law, have no treatment jurisdiction for the oral cavity. That is the preserve of the dentist.

Get to know your politics.
What would seem to be common sense is sometimes illegal.
In Canada, according to the Constitution, healthcare is governed by the Provinces, NOT the central federal government. That means that one's quality and availability and cost of healthcare will differ from province to province to territory. It also means that the federal Government of Canada can make all the stipulations, requests, and pronouncements on healthcare --- and no one has to abide by them.

As you can read in the information on the earthtym.net site, the Province of Ontario Government has made it a regulation and legal practice to administer dental health in full opposition to and as a reversal of the results of National dental health research findings submitted, confirmed, and reconfirmed --- for decades, and supported finally by a Policy Statement issued less than a year earlier.

Many doctors do not seem to be aware of either the research, the policy statement, or the legal implications of their authority, or lack of. Your doctor has possibly been given a high school version of dental health in their training. When they are prevented from practicing in that area, why know more?

Q62: Can my doctor prescribe the removal of my amalgams?

SUMMARY: Your doctor can do whatever he or she chooses to risk.

In Canada, General Practitioners (GPs) CANNOT legally prescribe anything to do with the dental cavity. That area is the sole preserve of the dentist. The Canadian Federal government issued a Policy Statement in the mid-1990s stating that doctors should make their patients aware of dental options and that if warranted, they should advise the patient's dentist to remove mercury amalgams. To many patients and some doctors, that sounded like a prescription.

Dentists, who had paid attention in their training, knew differently. They knew that doctors have no treatment authority in the dental cavity, by law. That means your doctor can write as many prescriptions for mercury amalgam removal as he or she wishes --- and the dentist will likely laugh in your face. It happened twice to me over several years. Then a dentist explained the confusion. It is technically illegal for a Canadian doctor to write a prescription of authority over a dentist regarding dental matters.

Sound inefficient, useless, counterproductive.
Read the information on the site, then contact your Member of Parliament.
In the end, the best thing you can do is to educate yourself and insist on your choices. No one else has the authority or the will to make decisions or changes that are not in their favor. It is always easiest to be lazy.

Q63: What is the role of the government in this question?

SUMMARY: In Canada, the role of good government is to maintain peace and order. If there are no changes and if everyone is suitably disoriented in their understanding of their options, efforts for change can be thwarted.

Disunity between Provincial and Federal government on healthcare issues has clearly resulted in the increasing personal frustration of Canadians with their healthcare delivery. Individually, Canadians are their own worst enemy. They tend to believe their social authorities, have little skill in reviewing and evaluating research, tend to be idealistic in expecting compromise to always resolve a problem, and, largely don't want to take responsibility to find better solutions.

In October 2000, discussions between the provincial and federal levels of government and with the healthcare providers noted that

• Nursing staff requirements over the next 5 years would be difficult to meet due to budgetary restrictions from the past 10 years resulting in a degradation of working conditions to such an intolerable level that many staff are leaving the country, the industry, or taking early retirement;

• Significant medical technology is so out-of-date, and under-maintained due to past budget cuts, that third world countries have better resources;

• The old conventional medical monopolies are resulting in more effective alternative care approaches being denied to the public with the result that chronic illness levels continue to skyrocket as they have for over a decade;

• The bureaucratized and segmented structure of the healthcare industry would be more efficient if replaced with a more wholistic team service structure, most of the time.

There have been studies, talk, complaints, suggestions, demands --- for many years --- no leadership. The authorities have only been concerned about getting re-elected. The people have sold their service quality for lower taxes and lack of involvement. There are efforts and resolve now. Will it be enough? Will it be in time?

Q64: Are there safer dental fillers than mercury amalgams?

SUMMARY: Yes.

There are a great many types of dental fillers or devices.
It will be more practical for you to try and determine what your local options are, their disadvantages, and their cost, than for much description to be provided here.

The literature confirms that gold is one of the longest lasting and most durable dental fillings, but, it is also expensive and conspicuous.

I find that many dentists who use mercury amalgams have little awareness of other materials and little desire to offer alternatives.

I would recommend contacting several dentists in your area who do not place dental amalgams. Ask they what options they can offer you and what the differences are between those for price and qualities. These will possibly include several varieties of porcelain and, more varieties of plastics. Some dental offices have brochures on such options. Often, the disadvantages or cautions are not mentioned, so, be sure to ask. Everything that can be a benefit also has its disadvantages.

Read the References for a better awareness of some dental fillers.

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