Dangers of Looking Anew At an Old Problem: Suddenly, We Have Poison in Our Mouths

So, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s tomato investigators are back to square one, it seems. Nearly 900 people have become ill, and the investigators are even suggesting the cause may not be tomatoes at all.

How about if the agency simply admitted, “We don’t know. We’re stumped. Maybe we just need to start over and look at the entire food supply with a fresh mind.”

Instead, as Henwhisperer points out following my previous post, there are complaints about how tough it is to trace products back to the farm, and there are frequent allusions to the need for bar codes for fruits and veggies—a real great way to help smaller farms remain competitive.

The danger of going back to square one and using it as an opportunity to change your perspective, of course, is that you may find you were going in the completely wrong direction to begin with. That seems to be what’s happening, very quietly, on the dental front, with the explosive issue of conventional dental fillings, or dental amalgams.

The FDA has had some study groups re-visiting the question of whether the mercury contained in amalgams that nearly all of us have in our mouths may be dangerous.

For years and years, patients who raised that possibility have been ridiculed. I know I have. I raised it with my long-time dentist several times in recent years, and each time he snickered as he told me, “There’s absolutely no scientific evidence that they are a problem.” The third or fourth time was the last time, as I moved my business to a dentist who refuses to use amalgams—not an easy person to find in the Boston area three years ago.

Just a few weeks ago, very quietly, the FDA posted on its web site a “Questions and Answers on Dental Amalgam,” and, lo and behold, the language has changed considerably from the line most dentists, dental associations, and the government long offered.

Indeed, Houston, we may have a problem. It states, “Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses. When amalgam fillings are placed in teeth or removed from teeth, they release mercury vapor. Mercury vapor is also released during chewing. FDA’s rulemaking…will examine evidence concerning whether release of mercury vapor can cause health problems, including neurological disorders, in children and fetuses.”

If you click on a link from a 2006 meeting of dental experts, you see that the panel wanted to “Consider informed consent for patients receiving amalgam” and “Consider labeling changes restricting its use in pregnant women and children.”

Bottom line, the FDA is now saying many of us are walking around with poison in our mouths.

Who knows what might happen if they allow honest re-examination of the problem of food-borne illness. (Thanks to Pete Gasper for forwarding me information on dental amalgams.)

Comments

[Central Valley Mom]

The amalgam filling/mercury exposure it a hot topic in the autism community. Just having your amalgams replaced isn't as easy as it sounds. If it isn't done correctly, you will swallow & breath in the amalgam dust (mercury) as it's drilled out. Then the theory goes that the mercury is stored in your body making you mercury toxic. I believe the amalgam has to be disposed of as toxic waste by the dentist after it leaves your mouth.

[Bob Hayles]

So Dave...did you go back to your former dentist and say, "What about this? Do you think you ought to think rather than accept the corporate bullshit? What will your answer be when your bullshit denteresty makes me sick and I sue the hell out of you?"

Maybe I just hire Bill Marler...and own you. He brags about owning folks that make mistakes...

Bob Hayles

[curious]

It’s a bit scary when you start reading about Alzheimer’s and the connection to mercury poisoning. If you make it to your 80’s, you have a 50% of dying from Alzheimer’s. I’m sure the combination of amalgam fillings and flu shots filled with mercury (pushed on the elderly by the medical establishment) is the recipe for Alzheimer’s.

[Sylvia]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/07/04/salmonella.outbreak/

"Starting Monday, health inspectors will halt the shipment of ingredients common to Mexican cuisine from Mexico to the United States,"

This was printed yesterday (July 4th), Can someone explain why they would wait until Monday? The poor performance from these govt entities just continues.

David, a few months ago I bought a crown and my dentist "assured" me that the metals in it were safe, as he also had the same in his mouth. I'm seeking a new dentist. I paid good money for him to place a toxic appliance in my mouth. There is something wrong with this picture!

I have a friend who is having Chelation therapy and so far it has decreased her hypertension. Her initial labs showed high levels of heavy metals. She has MS and there has been no noted change for those symptoms as of yet. I am curious to see what the labs show now.

[Don]

Sylvia the whole system is broken and corrupt. We breathe toxins from industrial pollution and the spray from the chemtrails in the air. We drink the deadly chemical flouride in our water supplies. Thousands of chemicals added to our food ALL APPROVED by TPTB. BUT if a small farmer sells us a glass of real pure raw milk with out their approval he has HELL to pay. Yes Sylvia there is something wrong with the picture we see. It is TPTB that have created, and enforce this destructive system on us that is wrong.
The good news is we are fighting back and they are feeling the heat. The TRUTH is on our side, their house of cards built on foundations of lies are begining to fall down.

[Sylvia]

I'm afraid to ask; what is the cost of removing and replacing the amalgam fillings and crowns? Do insurance companies cover that? Would I need to have labs drawn for heavy metal detection?

Someone had told me (maybe it was on the news)there was over 90 chemicals in our drinking water here in Sacramento. Those chemicals are needed so that the waste water is "clean" for us to consume. Yummy!

Where do you find the untainted water and foods? Uncontaminated land? (I really want to know, I'll be in the market to buy in the next 4 yrs).

Bob, do you think the "fault" would lie with the schools? They are who teaches the student MDs and DDS. I assume the schools get their information from research and studies, so maybe it would be with that? ... (I know research & studies opens a Pandora's box).In general, I don't see how fault could laid with past knowledge. I am with David, if they don't at least view things with an open mind, change providers. I can see the sparks flying if you were to engage Mr. Marler in a business deal.

[cp]

Sylvia,

My husband and I had all of our amalgams removed 2 years ago. Insurance does not cover it unless the dentist can prove it needed to be replaced due to damage. We paid for most of our replacements. It’s an expensive venture, but well worth the money spent.

You need to find a biological dentist. Prior to removing the mercury amalgams, Clifford testing is done. It’s a blood test that costs around $300.00. It’s allergy testing for all the possible substances that could be used in your mouth. Only compatible substances will be used to refill the cavity.

A biological dentist will also use gas masks when the removal is done. That’s how dangerous the vapors are.

Anyone interested in reading on the topic, here’s a couple of good books:

Whole Body Dentistry by Mark A Breiner
Uninformed Consent by Hal a. Huggins and Thomas E. Levy

[Bob Hayles]

Sylvia...

Ya think Marler and I would clash just a bit?...LOL

He and I have a mutual friend who assures me that we would get along famously...provided I could get over my hatred of lawyers and he could get past his disdain for stupid little farmers like me.

I'm up for it if he is. I'm all for education, and he and I both probably have a lot to learn. I know that...I wonder if he does?

Bob Hayles

[Sylvia]

Thank you CP, that's some reading to catch up on.

Don, you are so right, they can put poison in our bodies against our knowledge/wishes, yet the dairy farmer/small farmer are nailed to the barn wall.

http://www.dentalwellness4u.com/freeservices/amalremov.html

There is a lot to disseminate.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/serum.html

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mercury.html

I know quackwatch is questionable. Do you think they'll recind (sp) their words?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-to.hs.fillings03jul03,0,1066051.story

[Steve Bemis]

I looked into amalgam replacement a couple of years ago, and concluded the risk was greater than the gain. The dentist REALLY has to know what he/she is doing, and special equipment is needed to pull the mercury waste out of your mouth while they are removing the fillings. It's kind of like removing old lead paint - very dangerous since you're potentially releasing gobs of the stuff into very sensitive tissues (lungs, mucous membranes). I did have my mercury blood level checked, and it was quite low (altho, not zero) so I dropped it. Next life I'll do it right.

I do remember when I got most of my fillings - many, many long visits in the dentist chair, slow belt-driven drills - I was about age 12, the same time my eyesight declined precipitously. The growth spurt of puberty demanded more nutrients than my diet provided (the late 50's were recession years in Massachusetts where we lived, my Dad was a carpenter out of work, and we ate lots of beans 'n franks). In the calculus of growth, my skeleton won out, and my teeth and eyes were the losers.

[Central Valley Mom]

"Task force targets 'fiestas' selling illegal raw dairy, other illicit goods"
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_raids06.456948c.html

Here's a news report about illegal raw dairy "fiestas" in Southern California where they sell "bathtub cheese" and an alcoholic drink made from raw milk.

[Don]

!8 months ago a WAPF friendly dentist spoke at our local WAPF gathering. He did not recommend we all go get our mercury fillings removed. He cited the risk involved and I think he said few dentist do it properly. My memory is a little hazy but I think we left with the impression that neitherthe option of keeping the fillings or removing them was good. The promotion and complete refusal of TPTB to even admit there is a problem with mercury fillings is just one more reason why I cant believe anything they say. There are some that say they can not admit there is a danger from the mercury fillings that they placed in our mouths because there would be a tsuname of lawsuits from just about everyone in the USA.

[Sylvia]

"produced under unsanitary conditions."

CVM, key words from the link you posted. I wonder how many will catch that?

Thanks for the insight everyone on the removal of fillings. Finding a dentist who has the same views as I may be a bit of a challenge. I think about the recent crown I got, the tooth had cracked and had an old filling-from the 60s- he drilled and removed the old filling and prepared the tooth for the crown, he stuck the crown on and the inside is silver colored metal. This was when it dawned on me to ask about the safety and he "assured" me that it was safe. I do think that that dentist truely believes what he said. Nothing special was done to protect me from any vapors or swallowing any contaminated drainage.

Don, I think that the dentists were taught that the mercury fillings were safe and so that is their belief. Change in beliefs is hard for many.

I didn't know there was mercury in my fillings until a few years ago. The term "amalgam" was used and I thought it was a safe metal; why would anyone want to use an unsafe metal? Or so that is how I think.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-facts.htm

Could flouride be one of the reasons many in the US are on Synthroid for low thyroid function?

http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/index.asp

Many water utilities are using Chloramine instad of Chlorine for water treatment. You cannot use tap water that has been treated with chloramine for your goldfish tank, it'll kill them. In a nut shell, it prevents the red blood cell from uptaking O2. Dialysis has to have a special filters otherwise the patient has complications (no or decreased O2 uptake in redblood cells). If it is known that fish can't swim in it and it affects medical procedures; why would anyone think it is OK for the masses?

http://www.epa.gov/safewater/disinfection/chloramine/

http://www.vce.org/chloraminearticles.html

[Don]

Sylvia inorder to avoid our tap water {local supplier does "claims" it uses no flouride] for the last couple of years we have bought gal. jugs of distilled water and added 1 teaspoon of Celtic Sea salt to remineralize. However Mercola or someone said distilled water is acidic and may not be as pure as it should be. We dont have a better idea so thats what we do and it sure makes good Kombucha Tea. I read somewhere that flouride was first used in the Russian Gulag camps to keep the inmates complient and in the US people need to have a special hazzardous material license to handle flouride. I dont know if its true but they sure arent happy thoughts.

[C2]

curious,

Boo! So many things to fear out there :-)

C2

[Rob]

I am horrified by this article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/health/07cholesterol.html?hp

[Don]

Rob it is mind numbing. Pills for breakfast, pills for lunch, pills for supper and pills for snacks. Pills from craddle to the grave. BUT. Dont anyone ever give a child or their elderly parent a glass of REAL RAW MILK from any wicked raw dairy farmer there may be a germ present. ARREST THAT FARMER NOW. YIKES are we living in a CRAZY HOUSE? It makes one want to weep as we watch the SYSTEM destroy the health and wealth of the unknowing victums that believe they doing what is right. Very very sad state of affairs.

[Sylvia]

Gee, do they not think that all the processed foods and added chemicals being shoveled at kids may be causing the health problems? Or are they still wearing blinders? You are what you eat. Once bottom is hit, the only way to go is up, but the slide down is horrible and so very sad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/health/nutrition/31ibeg.html?fta=y

http://www.thincs.org/

I've had elderly tell me that eating a bowl of old fashioned oatmeal (long cooking type) a day for 2-3 months worked at lowering their cholesterol numbers. I would assume that other high fiber foods would assist also. I also have a friend whose husband had a perfect stress test, "normal" labs and he passed away at the age of 43 from a heart attack caused by occluded coronary arteries.

Don, I read a little last night about flouride and the use with inmates. Both the Russians and Hitler used it for the reasons you stated and our govt is and was aware at the time. I also didn't know that they put flouride into so many products. Slow poisoning of the masses with so many chemicals.

[pete]

Something to consider, filling has a finite life and will need work at some point. At which point you're better off to have them removed by a qualified dentist than undergo the completely unsafe work you typical dentist will do.

[Don]

This is a reprint of the original article but with added material on the establishments burtal efforts to crush what is our most important life sustaining food, RAW DAIRY.
http://opednews.com/articles/Raw-milk-and-the-governmen-by-Linn-Cole-Cohen-Cole-080706-622.html