FDA reconsidering safety of mercury fillings

FDA reconsidering safety of mercury fillings, but panel may be rigged from the start.


(NaturalNews) Mercury fillings are one of the greatest scams in the
history of dentistry. They're intentionally and misleadingly named
"silver fillings" so that people don't realize they're made of mercury,
and when installed in teeth, they release mercury vapor every
time a person chews on them (see video link below). Mercury vapor is
then inhaled and absorbed into the body where it can cause neurological
disorders, headaches, fatigue, sickness and may even be related to
autism in children.

Mercury fillings are also just bad dentistry. They're an ancient
technology used as far back as the U.S. Civil War. The metals in
mercury fillings expand and contract with changes in temperature,
causing micro-fractures in the teeth. They're not even bonded to teeth
-- dentists simply cram the toxic mercury metal alloy into a cavity and
hope it stays in place. It's cheap, it's crude, and it's ugly. But it
has also been the mainstay of western dentistry for literally hundreds
of years.

Quacks, skeptics and poison pushers all insist mercury is somehow safe

All
the usual suspects insist mercury fillings are completely safe: TIME
Magazine, the quack-busting critics who are quacks themselves, the
ever-corrupt American Medical Association, FDA bureaucrats and of course
the top officials of the dental industry. They acknowledge that
mercury is a highly-toxic heavy metal that causes neurological damage,
but they insist it's safe to put this metal in your mouth because
somehow these metal fillings are impervious and won't release mercury
into your body.

These are all the same people and groups who, by the way, insist that
chemotherapy is safe, too. Radiation therapy is safe. Fluoride in water
is safe. The mercury in vaccines is safe. BPA is safe. Pesticides are
safe. GMOs are safe. Gosh, there's hardly a poison on the planet that
has been declared safe by these nitwits. And they insist that mercury
fillings are safe, too, because they insist it doesn't release mercury
vapor.

They're claiming, in other words, that mercury fillings are actually made with adamantium.
That's the fictional metal found in X-Men comic books. Wolverine's
claws are made out of adamantium, too. It's the only metal in the world
that's completely impervious to disintegration or damage, as any
teenage boy will gleefully tell you.

And that would all be great if we lived in the world of comic books.
Sadly for all those dental patients who have been harmed by mercury
fillings, in the real world mercury fillings crack, fracture and come loose. And even when they stay in place, they still off-gas toxic mercury vapor.

See the video evidence yourself

You can watch a fascinating video of a mercury filling off-gassing vapor in real time on NaturalNews.TV:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=490CF2E91570F9C4F77EAB0400A0D385

This video was created by the IAOMT, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (www.IAOMT.org). It shows massive amounts of mercury vapor off-gassing from an extracted tooth. This level is far above any "safe" level set by the FDA or the EPA.

People suffer under the toxic effects of mercury amalgam fillings



And
that explains why people at Tuesday's FDA hearing told the agency that
mercury fillings destroyed the quality of their lives. One man
suffered from fatigue and chronic sinus infections for 46 years before
finally having the mercury removed. "I wouldn't have believed it would
have caused a difference," he said. "It's absolutely amazing."

Another person testified, "I was vomiting every day for months." A
parent added this startling bit of testimony: "My child now has 59
seizures a day…" (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/14/eveningnews/main7150398.sht...)

No one denies mercury is extremely toxic

Mercury is, of course, a toxic heavy metal. As Wikipedia reports:

Case control studies have shown effects [from mercury exposure] such
as tremors, impaired cognitive skills, and sleep disturbance in
workers with chronic exposure to mercury vapor even at low
concentrations in the range 0.7–42 ug/m3. A study has shown that acute
exposure (4 – 8 hours) to calculated elemental mercury levels of 1.1 to
44 mg/m3 resulted in chest pain, dyspnea, cough, hemoptysis,
impairment of pulmonary function, and evidence of interstitial
pneumonitis. Acute exposure to mercury vapor has been shown to
result in profound central nervous system effects, including psychotic
reactions characterized by delirium, hallucinations, and suicidal
tendency. Occupational exposure has resulted in broad-ranging
functional disturbance, including erethism, irritability, excitability,
excessive shyness, and insomnia. With continuing exposure, a fine
tremor develops and may escalate to violent muscular spasms. Tremor
initially involves the hands and later spreads to the eyelids, lips,
and tongue. Long-term, low-level exposure has been associated with more
subtle symptoms of erethism, including fatigue, irritability, loss of
memory, vivid dreams, and depression.

But somehow, magically, when mercury is installed in your mouth as a
mercury filling, all the dentists, doctors and FDA bureaucrats
essentially insist that mercury is transmuted into a completely safe substance that poses no risk of harm to you or your children.

It's a ridiculous position, of course. It's almost as if the defenders
of mercury were suffering from mercury poisoning themselves. One of the
first side effects of mercury poisoning, after all, is insanity. And
insanity means you're dissociated from reality, living in your own world
of self-deception and often operating in a way that may harm yourself
or others. That's a perfect description of the mercury filling
defenders, who are the same "skeptics" who defend useless seasonal flu
vaccines, chemotherapy, aspartame, MSG, and dangerous pharmaceuticals.
Heck, there's not a deadly chemical on the planet these people don't
want to see human beings consume, it seems.

But this argument over mercury fillings defies common sense. There is
no reputable scientist who would insist that mercury is safe when it's outside your mouth.
We've all been warned about the mercury in fluorescent lights (you
have to dispose of them through special hazardous waste operations) and
thermometers. We're all warned not to touch mercury because it might
get absorbed into our skin. The EPA reveals that just a few grams of
mercury can turn an entire lake into a toxic waste site, making the fish
unsafe to eat.

The FDA used to even warn people not to eat fish because of all the
mercury found in certain types of fish, but they yanked that
recommendation when it became obvious that such logic would eventually
have to extend to mercury fillings, too. And the FDA has long sought to
protect mercury fillings, despite the scientific evidence that they
are harming people.

And yet, despite all these warnings about how toxic mercury really is
OUTSIDE your body, it's astonishing what happens once the mercury is
installed INSIDE your body. Suddenly all the experts reverse their
positions. Mercury is now magically safe! The fact that mercury has
entered your mouth and now sits in your teeth is apparently a magical
act that defies physics and chemistry. Suddenly, all the toxicity of
mercury disappears, they claim, and it's perfectly safe to chew on.

But they're ignoring all the scientific evidence that mercury fillings cause neurological problems and may even promote Alzheimer's. There's a great page explaining all this on HolisticMed.com (http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/amalgam/), which offers the following information:

1) Mercury Causes Damage to the Brains of Children

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.

2) Mercury Amalgam Fillings are Linked to Neurological Problems, Gastrointestinal Problems

The first large-scale epidemiological study of mercury and adverse
reactions was recently completed and showed that of the symptoms looked
at, there was a link seen to gastrointestinal problems, sleep
disturbances, concentration problems, memory disturbances, lack of
initiative, restlessness, bleeding gums and other mouth disorders.

3) Mercury / Alzheimer's Disease Connection Found

A study related to mercury and Alzheimer's Disease was recently
completed by a team of scientists led by well-respected researcher Dr.
Boyd Haley. They exposed rats to levels of mercury vapor diluted to
account for size differences between humans and rats. The rats
developed tissue damage "indistinguishable" from that of Alzheimer's
Disease. Repeating the experiment showed the same results. Dr. Haley is
quoted as saying "I'm getting the rest of my fillings taken out right
now, and I've asked my wife to have hers replaced too." Also see: http://www.holistic-dentistry.com/artalzeimer.asp

4) Amalgam Fillings Release Highly Toxic Elemental Mercury

Mercury is one of the most toxic substances known. The mercury release
from fillings is absorbed primarily as highly toxic elemental mercury
vapor.

5) Mercury Build Up in Brain, Organs and Breast Milk of Fetuses of Mothers With Amalgam Fillings

Mercury from fillings in pregnant women has been shown to cause mercury
accumulation in brain, kidneys and liver of human fetuses (all of the
areas tested). Studies have shown that mercury can be passed to infants
from breast milk.

… read more at http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/amalgam/

Battle over mercury fillings mirrors tactics of Big Tobacco

Today,
the evil proponents of toxic mercury fillings are relying on many of
the very same deception tactics once used by Big Tobacco in its
decades-long cover-up of the dangers of smoking.

According to documents on the IAOMT website, the FDA may have already
made up its mind about mercury fillings (they're safe, didn't ya know?)
and is holding these hearings merely as a bit of public theater in
order to create an illusion that they're actually concerned about the
issue. Efforts have been made to minimize the testimony time of mercury
filling opponents, and documents that opposed mercury fillings have
been stripped off the FDA's website (http://iaomt.org/news/archive.asp?intReleaseID=351).

It's business as usual at the FDA, where the agency has been pushing
toxic chemicals and deadly drugs onto the public for as long as anyone
can remember. The science gets thrown out the window in all this
because mercury fillings are a profit issue, and the FDA is
very, very good at protecting the profits of large, powerful
corporations and industries whose very existence depends on the
continuation of the "great lies" of western medicine.

One of those great lies, of course, is the ridiculous idea that mercury
is perfectly safe to place in the mouths of children, pregnant women
and everyone else. In time, this lie will ultimately be exposed, and
historians will refer to our present time as the "mercury age" of
dentistry, where virtually the entire population was poisoned by
dentists who were just too ignorant to know what they were doing.

But the truth of the matter is far different: They DO know mercury
fillings are toxic. The scientific evidence is irrefutable. Modern
dentists aren't ignorant on this issue -- they've just sold out the
safety of their patients in order to make more money installing cheap,
toxic and highly-profitable mercury fillings that they know are
poisonous.

After all, in the world of modern medicine (and dentistry), safety never gets in the way of making a buck.


Source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/030741_mercury_fillings_FDA.html