Are You Being Poisoned by Your Amalgam Fillings?
August 14th, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency and the American Dental Association strongly recommend that amalgam fillings be treated as a biohazard before being used on a tooth and after being removed. If amalgam fillings are too toxic to be disposed of through normal measures, what could possibly lead anyone to believe that it’s safe to have them in your mouth for the rest of your life?
With all the sources of toxins that exist today, including our water, air, food, and many of the personal care products that we use on a daily basis, we certainly don’t need a constant source of toxins right in our mouths. Amalgam fillings are just that!
Your Amalgam Fillings are Emitting Mercury Vapors
It’s well known that mercury is highly toxic in excessive amounts and that modern pollution is making such toxicity more and more common. Despite this, amalgam fillings containing mostly mercury as well as other potentially toxic metals are still commonly used. Research has shown that amalgam fillings emit mercury vapor at a significant level. According to the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, if you can see the vapor, it’s at a level that is 1,000 times higher than the limit that the EPA has set for air.
Any type of stimulation to an amalgam filling, such as heat, chewing, grinding, and brushing your teeth, increases the amount of mercury vapor emitted for at least an hour and a half. Using special photography, the IAOMT has clearly demonstrated with a 25 year old amalgam filling in an extracted tooth that it doesn’t take much stimulation at all to provoke a steady stream of visible mercury vapor to be released.
Your Amalgam Fillings May Be Poisoning Your Entire Body!
A study involving the insertion of an amalgam filling in the mouth of a sheep revealed that mercury from the filling spread to the sheep’s jaw, stomach, liver, and kidneys within just 30 days. Significant amounts of mercury eventually spread to every organ in the sheep’s body and resulted in a strong indication of kidney malfunction. The same type of study was done on a monkey and led to similar results.
In addition to the neurological and many other types of issues that mercury toxicity can cause, it’s a significant risk to a fetus. The sheep study showed that mercury was directly transferred to the sheep’s placenta and spread to every part of the fetus. After birth, the amount of mercury found in the baby lamb continued to increase through the intake of the mothers milk.
This research provides alarming evidence that the amalgam fillings in your mouth may very well be contaminating the rest of your body, and for pregnant women, could be a significant risk to the health of the fetus.
Unnecessary Drilling Destroys Teeth
To fill a cavity with an amalgam filling, a portion of the tooth much larger than the size of the cavity must be drilled away. Even without concern for mercury toxicity, this is a significant threat to the structure, health, and longevity of the tooth, and according to the IAOMT, is not the best approach. Alternatives are available that are free of toxic metals and don’t require additional destruction of the tooth.
The Smoking Teeth Video
The following video, produced by the IAOMT, clearly shows the shocking amount of vapor that emits from a stimulated amalgam filling. It also discusses the research referenced above and explains a better alternative for filling cavities.
How to Protect Yourself from the Risks of Amalgam Fillings
The most important measure you can take to avoid the risks associated with amalgam fillings is to clean up your diet, especially by avoiding sugar and refined carbohydrates, to prevent any new cavities from forming. If you already have a cavity that needs to be addressed, or would like to have your amalgam fillings replaced with something safer, seek out a biological or holistic dentist who doesn’t use mercury. You can find such dentists through the International Academy of Biological Dentistry and Medicine.
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Are you psychic or did I tell you about the mercury filling I’ve recently had removed? I had it replaced 5 weeks ago with a composite filling but it was drilled out. Since then, I’ve had severe pain in my jaw, neck and head. My alternative health practitioner advised me to take l-glutathione (an amino acid which aids with the excretion of toxic metals) and is also treating me with acupuncture.
5 weeks on and I still feel exhausted and continue to have severe pain in my neck and jaw. I can’t actually close my teeth together because of the pain. I’ve also had stomach pains and my tooth continues to be extremely sensitive to hot and cold so the replacement filling has not really fixed the problem.
Sadly most dentists don’t believe it’s a problem so now I’m tring to find one who does.
The difficulty is that it’s often when the filling is replaced that the sypmtoms are the worst because that’s when the mercury vapour is released in higher quantities.
It’s time that the medical profession woke up to the toxicity of its treatment of patients.
Thanks for raising the awareness of this to your readers. I wish I’d known before I had it replaced. I still have 2 more mercury fillings which I want to be removed but I need to get my health more balanced before I can consider increasing the problems.
I had a lot of big fillings for many years. Most of those teeth cracked and were replaced with gold crowns although I think I have a couple left. I often wondered if my fatigue and memory symptoms were related to the fillings.
Thanks for the comments guys!
Jude – Having a filling taken out can definitely cause issues. A properly trained dentist will take certain precautions to minimize the risk of this happening. To help you in your search for a new dentist, here’s a document from the IAOMT about safe removal of amalgam fillings.
I don’t know a lot about dentistry but have heard many stories like yours. I hope you feel better soon and also that you find a good dentist!
Stephen – It’s certainly possible! One way to find out is to be tested for heavy metals. A cheap and effective way to do this is to have a hair tissue mineral analysis done.
Hi,
I’ve just found out i had mercury poising recently from my amalgams. I’m an acupuncturist training to be a naturopath, who never has any health problems, healthy diet etc.. And if something arises like a bad cold or sprains etc I can manage it pretty easily via acupuncture and natural modailties.
A few weeks ago I had sudden all over moving fast body joint pain. Nothing i did helped, not acupuncture, not herbs not supplements not radical dietary change or supplements. Very perplexing – it was kind of like Rheumatiod arthiritis but didn’t even fit that profile very well.
I was also extremely tired all the time for that period.
I went to my dentist to check how my braces were getting along and he said ‘oh I fogot to tell you last month – your (mercury) filling is disintegrating very badly -you should get it sorted.
So that night I took every chelating agent I had (vit c high dose, cilantro, chorella, garlic and had a seaweed bath). Next morning all symptoms gone and full or energy on 8 (rather than 10 hrs sleep.
I’ve felt great since bar a fee headaches (detoxing reaction?) and still slight niggle in the fascia of my hands coming and going – the only one of the strange reactions left.
Next plan is going to holistic dentist. I’m being really careful to find someone who uses the gum shield, hight water aspiration, is mercury free, can advice me on what else to take as I detox and do compatabilty testing for the new filling. (i had hoped to go for Diamond lite but when I found out one of the top guys in London has stopped using it I’ll just stick to composites that i’m test for (my compatability).
I’m staying away from chemical chelation DSMO etc.. (I hope I’m remembering the name of that correctly) after reading about one ladies reaction to it in a very good webite (google danger of chemical chelation.. and you’ll find it)
This was not actually something I gave a great deal of credance to before. I did sort of assume they were pretty stable once bonded. So I guess a good learning experience for me to pass on to clients in the end. Also extremely relieved to find out I don’t have an unsual and somehow intransigent form of Rheumatoid arthritis.
Take care.
Hi Catherine, thanks for sharing your experience!
Although your reaction was unfortunate, it sounds like you had a free mercury filling removal.
I’m glad to hear that you’ve recovered and I hope that you find a great dentist to fix your tooth.