What is Dental Amalgam? Why is Mercury a health and environmental concern?
“Mercury is the THIRD most toxic substance known to man Mercury is more toxic than Lead, Arsenic, and Cadmium”
Mercury amalgam (silver) fillings material composition:
- 50% mercury
- 35% silver
- 15% copper, nickel, tin, zinc, other
This mixture of metals this can cause electrical current problems in the mouth, known as galvanic effects, which are worsened with continuous use of cell phones placed on the side of the face. For some patients with amalgam fillings, the metal also works as a “receiver” that intensifies the electro-current fields in their body when exposed to EMF frequencies. This includes cellphones, Bluetooth devices, Apple watches, smartwatches, Wi-Fi routers, computers, microwaves, cell-phone towers, and other appliances.
Several of our patients, suffering from EMF sensitivity, have described these related symptoms:
- Headaches
- Migraines
- Light Sensitivity
- Muscle Weakness
- Nausea
- Disorientation
- Brain Fog
- Visual Disturbances
- Tachycardia
- Sleep disturbances, including insomnia
- depression and depressive symptoms
- tiredness and fatigue
- dysesthesia (a painful, often itchy sensation)
- lack of concentration
- changes in memory
- dizziness
- skin conditions, especially on the face.
Dental amalgam fillings have been shown to emit mercury vapours continuously in small amounts from the filling during its entire lifetime, especially during chewing, brushing and polishing of teeth. Most traditional dentists, many of who still place amalgam fillings or remove them casually, believe that amalgam fillings are harmless and the amount of vapor released is below the exposure required to cause neurotoxicity and disease. Functional Medicine doctors and Biological dentists, as supported by years of research and education, know that no amount of mercury exposure is safe to humans, especially mercury that is continuously being released over a lifetime.
The bottom line is that cumulative exposure to mercury will ultimately cause mercury toxicity or at the very least place stress on individuals’ immune systems.
Consider the following facts:
- Mercury fillings continually leach mercury vapor into the mouth especially when chewing, brushing, or drinking hot liquids.
- As mercury vapor is inhaled and swallowed, it is readily absorbed into the bloodstream, passing through various organs including the brain.
- In an optimally functioning body, the body will excrete a maximum of 60% of this mercury and store the remaining 40% in the cells. Especially those of the nervous systems.
- As the toxic load builds up, the percentage excreted decreases over time, while that stored in the body increases, taxing the gut and the nervous system.
- In autopsy studies, there is a clear correlation between the amount of mercury in brain tissue and the number of amalgam fillings in the mouth.
Symptoms of Mercury Poisoning – Recognized by theAmerican Dental Association (ADA)
It is well known that mercury will be stored first in the kidneys, then in the liver, followed by storage in neurological (brain) tissue and then dispersed throughout the rest of the body.
Symptoms related to mercury toxicity are vast:
- Tremor observed in the fine voluntary muscle movement (such as handwriting), eventually progressing to convulsions and seizures.
- Tinnitus; ringing in the ear.
- Depression, fatigue, increased irritability, moodiness and nervous excitability, especially when under stress.
- Inability to concentrate; loss of memory.
- Insomnia or drowsiness.
- Nausea and diarrhoea
- Loss of appetite
- Birth defects in offspring.
- Nephritis or symptoms of kidney disease.
- Swollen glands and tongue.
- Ulceration of oral mucosa.
- Dark Pigmentation of marginal and loosening of teeth.
- Links to autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
