{"id":3239,"date":"2016-07-28T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninstitute.org\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:15:25","slug":"dental-amalgams-and-their-contribution-to-chronic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninstitute.org\/dental-amalgams-and-their-contribution-to-chronic-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentistry: Dental Amalgams and Their Contribution to Chronic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reputable dentists like this Dentist in Land O’ Lakes<\/a> pride themselves on using only the best materials in their treatments, and this is one of the reasons why they are so popular; clients trust that they are in safe hands with them. However, for many years there has been an ongoing controversial discussion about amalgams as dental filling material. Despite the ostensible advantages providing the population with a long lasting and easy to handle, almost undemanding teeth restoration material which at the same time shows an exalted breaking resistance and compression strength on a high cost-efficiency level we still need to see the extensive documented list of health hazards connected with amalgams, that you may find in reports on the internet and literature. There seems to be a major difficulty in confining subjective ailments and objective disease patterns, which leads to all kind of different beliefs and arguments among the experts whether amalgam should still be considered in dentistry. There is no conclusive answer except that the market of dental filling materials offers a vast variety of much more credible and unequivocally better substances in a sense of outmatching biocompatibility like high content gold alloys, ceramics and certain plastic respectively cement materials, regarding the aspect of temporarily or definite solutions.<\/p>\n Looking at amalgams we deal with a mixture\/alloy of approx. 50% liquid mercury (Hg) and 50% powder made from zinc (Zn), tin (Sn), copper (Cu), silver (Ag) and traces of other heavy metals like palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), antimony (Sb) etc. The during early years used so called gamma-2-amalgams did also consist of 50% mercury but included a higher copper fraction causing the material to be prone to corrosion with less abrasiveness. This is why critics think that there could be a higher mercury release in comparison to the from most dental associations around the world favoured non-gamma-2 respectively gamma-2-free-amalgams, which contain 51.5% mercury, a minimum of 20% silver, a maximum of 16% tin and a maximum of 15% copper with a maximum of 1% zinc. Boyd Haley (Boyd E. Haley PhD * 22.Sept 1940 Greensburg, Indiana; professor of the University of Kentucky Lexington and chair of the chemistry department since 1996) and his team have shown in 2007 that 1 cm2 of amalgam surface releases approx. 15yg of mercury at average during 24 h without mechanical stress, which we naturally find within the oral cavity. Mercury acts as a cell poison binding to body protein. This is why mercury as a soluble compound should be considered as toxic. At room temperature mercury exists as a liquid and gradually vapors to a gaseous condition. These mercury vapors reach mucous membranes within the lungs and thus enter the body being in a later stage stocked within the central nervous system and kidneys, where they can unfold their toxic impact.<\/p>\n The saliva of people with amalgams contains 3 times higher values of methylmercury, a high toxic, organic compound of mercury, than people with no amalgam fillings. Toxification with methylmercury has been shown in the surrounding of the city of Minamata on the Japanese coast, when in the mid 50s local authorities found out about an environmental catastrophe reaching world wide attention many years after due to uncontrolled sewage water dumping of a chemical corporation named Chissso. Even first denying that there might be any relation to a high percentage of people living in this area suffering out of a sudden from extreme tiredness, exhaustion, head- and body aches, partial palsy, psychosis and even coma in later stages, the company had to admit after governmental investigation that the ocean dumping of methylmercuryiodide lead to a dramatic accumulation of methylmercury within the sea algae and fish, consumed preferably by the population living on the sea shores. According to present day evaluation 17.000 people had been damaged by methylmercury in a more or less extensive way; but only 2265 people by the year 2000 had been acknowledged officially to be victims of Minamata-disease meanwhile more than 3000 people have died in the meantime.<\/p>\n The effects of an even more complex organic compound of mercury, the dimethylmercury, had been demonstrated in the tragic death of Karen Wetterhahn (*16.10.1948; + 08.06.1997), who used to work as a professor for chemistry at the Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire) dealing with the toxicity of metals. While she was testing the pathogenic impact of toxic metals on cells she sustained a work injury whereby dimethylmercury dripped on her protecting latex-glove diffusing through and being reabsorbed by her skin. 10 months later she was complaining about severe dizziness and headache. According to the results of a scientific laboratory study that involved analyzing a cell sample using laboratory incubators<\/a>, the mercury concentration of her blood accounted for more than 80 times the toxic threshold value. Despite chelation therapy, she fell into a coma and died of acute mercury toxification. Being injured at work can have serious consequences sometimes (this is the same if you had an accident at home though). If you have been injured at work then it is really important that you get things checked over. You might also benefit by getting legal aid from a company like The House of Workers Compensation<\/a>, particularly if the injury isn’t your fault.<\/p>\n Boyd Haley showed in some of his studies that most of the pathogenic bacteria and fungus in the mouth, within tooth pockets, from dead teeth or infected jaw bone might be able to transform the mercury, organically bound, to complex forms of dimethylmercury with a even higher toxic impact; According to his opinion these mechanisms might be the reason for the development of so called “oral Supertoxins”. This can be avoided by paying attention to other interference fields and foci within the oral cavity.<\/p>\n Animal experiments on sheep with radioactively marked mercury have shown that after 28 days of amalgaminsertion an accumulation of mercury could be demonstrated within the jaw bone and oral soft tissues of the amalgam exposed animals. Pregnant sheep could demonstrate perfectly the pass-through effect mercury has on the placenta. The radioactively marked mercury could be detected in the fetus as well. After removal of the mercury fillings they could show high accumulation of mercury within the sheep’s intestinal tract, bone marrow, kidneys and adrenals; the main organs for detoxification. This is why we think that there shouldn’t be any kind of removal without protective drainage therapy.<\/p>\n Most of the patients we have at Paracelsus Clinic didn’t have their fillings for 28 days to carry along; most of them had been exposed to mercury for more than 20 up to 50 years. Even among those that had been rehabilitated by replacing all the amalgam fillings they had, we frequently find amalgam particle within soft tissue, jaw bone and below gold crowns and\/or prosthetic bridgework. If you’re starting to experience pain in your jaw from recent filling or in general, you may need treatment of temperomandibular disorders<\/a>. Don’t worry, it’s very common in patients with pain in their jaw, face, head and neck. <\/p>\n The clinical symptoms we observe in people suffering from Amalgam toxification are mainly vegetative, neurological and skin respectively mucous membranes affecting disorders.<\/p>\n Clinical symptoms of Amalgam Intoxification:<\/p>\n
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General Symptoms<\/strong><\/td>\nVegetative NS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Trembling, Tremor mercuralis<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Insomnia<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Anorexia<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Chronic fatigue, low energy, easy exhaustion, general oscitacy<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Reduced reactivity, feeling of weakness<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Concentration and thinking disorders<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n |
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