From: msmith01@flash.net
Subject: SNET: Check you mouth
Date: 7 Jan 2001 18:31:19 -0500
To: Mark Smith 

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The primary cause of Alzheimer’s is “iatrogenic” disease caused by
chronic low level mercurial poisoning from mercury-silver amalgam dental
fillings.  In short, dentists have poisoned their patients with mercury
for 160 years.  Seventeen years ago, our family dentist told me when
mercury is combined with other metals to form amalgam, mercury does not
leach.  When scientists proved that it did (all metals leach), the
American Dental Association (ADA) changed their tune to: not enough
mercury leaches from mercury-silver amalgam to hurt anyone.  Some
dentists and clinicians began to suspect that chronic low level mercury
poisoning from amalgam might be linked to many diseases, because as
people began to exchange mercury-silver amalgam fillings for
biocompatible composites their health improved.  In many cases, their
health improved dramatically.   Then the ADA said that they had hundreds
of research papers proving mercury was safe.  Scientists asked the ADA
for copies of their research.  There wasn’t any; not one research paper.

Silver fillings are called silver because they look like silver, not
because they really are.  The correct scientific name for amalgam is
denoted by its highest metal content.  In the United States the most
common mixture of mercury- silver amalgam in a dental fillings is 52 per
cent mercury, 30 per cent copper, 13 per cent tin, 4 per cent silver and
less than 1 per cent zinc.

It does little good for me to spend over ten years time and more than
$300,000 teaching Alzheimer’s sufferers what they need to do to recover,
while dentists continue to place 500,000 mercury-silver amalgam fillings
every day.  Mercury, the most toxic non-radioactive element in the
periodic table, has an affinity for brain tissue.  It poisons the brain,
the central nervous system, weakens the immune system and opens up the
doorway for many other chronic diseases.

This book is a clear warning to amalgam manufacturers, the ADA, State
Dental Boards and dentists that their time in the sun is coming to an
end.  It is not in the nature of the insurance industry to insure a
known risk.  As underwriters begin to recognize their potential
unlimited liability, malpractice and product liability coverage will
become prohibitively expensive.  I think the most likely scenario will
be to decline malpractice coverage for dentists who continue to place
mercury-silver amalgam dental fillings.  The underwriters will not allow
the dental industry to sink the insurance industry.

In a legal brief filed with the Superior Court of The State of
California at Santa Clara, case #718228, October 22, 1992, William H.
Tolhurst, Plaintiff, vs.  Johnson and Johnson Consumer Products, Inc.;
Engelhard Corp.; ABE Dental Inc.; The American Dental Association, et
al.; Defendants.  Attorneys for the ADA said, “The ADA (as a trade
association) owes no legal duty of care to protect the public from
allegedly dangerous products used by dentists.  The ADA did not
manufacture, design, supply or install the mercury containing amalgams.
The ADA does not control those who do.” The court agreed and dismissed
the ADA from the case, leaving the defendant dentist, Thomas Fitzgerald
DDS, the amalgam manufacturers, and distributor holding the bag.

It is time for ADA members to rethink their own position.  How do you
feel about the ADA’s posture in the above paragraph?  Doesn’t it make
you proud to be a member of such an ethical professional association?
Fifteen years ago dentists said that there was not sufficient evidence
to justify discontinuing the use of mercury-silver amalgam fillings.
Today there is too much solid research about the amalgam connection to
chronic disease available, so the old argument has become more full of
holes than a whiffle ball.  And, it is the dentist who will be impacted
by the consequences.

World-wide, there are over 4,000 research papers indicating mercury is a
highly toxic substance.  How can dentists be so thoughtless as to place
one of the deadliest toxins in existence “two” inches from our brain?
Dentists need to step back and take a look at the view from the
patient’s perspective.  We ask, whose interest are you trying to
protect, amalgam manufacturers, the ADA, yourself, or your patients?  Is
there any dentist so ignorant and arrogant to believe that when this all
comes down, that those dentists who place amalgam fillings, the ADA and
amalgam manufacturers will walk away with their integrity and wallets
intact?  Dentists who continue to support the ADA amalgam position are
running out of time to walk away unscathed and will have to accept the
repercussions.  It is probably too late to walk away.  Our forbearance
is at an end.  Those of us who have been injured will not let you.


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