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Dental Toxicity

Dental Amalgam - Mercury

Some 25 years ago, the alleged dangers of the mercury content of routine dental restorations (fillings) was publicised by an academic dental surgeon in the USA, Dr. Hal Huggins. These claims were and incredibly still remain extremely unpopular amongst the dental and medical professions. Since this time many other leaders in these fields have joined in the condemnation of the practice of placing a known, highly toxic material in the human body. You would think by now toxic mercury would have been banned, as it has in almost all other medical applications. It is not supposed to be in vaccines, topical antiseptics or anything that may enter the human body. Even its use in thermometers is cautioned against. Spillages of even a few drops constitutes a potential public toxic hazard. Mercury is second to plutonium as the most toxic substance on earth! But placing the same substance inside our mouths for some reason suddenly becomes safe.

Counter claims are made that mercury, when combined with other metals as an amalgam in fillings is safe. This combination is not an alloy, but an "amalgam' - that means it retains its constituents original properties, which in the case of mercury are highly toxic! It is true that most mercury swallowed passes harmlessly through the intestinal tract but some changes by bacterial action into a lethal form - methyl mercury. Moreover, mercury vapour given off the fillings directly can pass into the brain. This is exactly where we do not want any heavy metals especially mercury

I advise you to go to Dr. Jaques Imbeau's website for an excellent review of Dental Toxicity and other issues. Refer to the side bar for his link.

Root Filled Teeth

Another very controversial area of dentistry. When teeth become devitalised or dead, they simply become dead objects whereas before the were vital living organs. Dental surgeons ream out the central canal containing nerves and blood vessels, clean out any local infected debris then fill the canal with a hopefully harmless filler.

Teeth for a variety of reasons including trauma, poor hygiene, caries, infections and so on, can gradually die. The many miles of canals within each tooth can easily become infected with very toxic bacteria. Indeed, the alert to this can be infection at the tip of the root, in the jaw bone - an apical abscess. Generally these become painful either suddenly or intermittently. Occasionally they become so acute that urgent dental action is required. Many people end up with a dead tooth which may not ever trouble them - with pain but within the depths of the tooth, sepsis may continue silently, seeding forms of bacteria and bacterial toxins into the bloodstream that rank as some of the most deadliest known. These can target distant organs such as heart, arteries and brain.

Of course what the alternative to a root filled tooth is remains a major problem -

Refer to the sidebar websites for indepth discussion and analysis of silent oral-dental isues of which you may be unware - that may affect your health.

What you can do

At the Narrows Clinic, we can assess each patient for risks of toxic metals. There are several tests that can be useful in determining mercury exposure and what is termed Mercury Burden.

Some tests include:

Whilst testing can reveal information relating to the amount of burden of mercury, lead, arsenic , cadmium and other toxic metals, they may not determine to what extent these elements are actually causing harm. For some folk, the damage is clearly manifesting but in others may not be evident. Best practice would be to prevent future harm by ridding the body of harmful metal toxicants.

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