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Dear Don,

I endorse your story with a few exceptions. Where you say that methyl mercury is leached out of amalgams. It is inorganic or elemental mercury which in amalgams, not methyl mercury. To convert from elemental to methyl requires an oxidation process - which the body can do but, to my knowledge, this has not been recorded in any journals, though it is logical that it would happen as it has been recorded that the bacteria in the swamps of Sweden oxidize elemental mercury to methyl. I suspect that it happens in the GIT of humans but in exceedingly low levels. Of the nanograms per cubic metre of air of inorganic mercury than comes off amalgams, 0.01% is absorbed by the GIT ...this compares to 80% of mercury vapour which is absorbed by the lungs when inhaled. Therefore, workers with mercury are at infinitely greater risk. For occupational exposure to mercury vapour, there is a TLV, threshold limit value, for its different forms. For the elemental form the TLV (from memory) is 0.05mg/m3 (which I believe is stupid because a poison is a poison), for the organic (methyl & ethyl) is zero, etc.. Mercury detection devices are ultra sensitive and, as you proved, not entirely accurate. They are used as scare tactics to drum up business by quack dentists. I read where Hal Huggins was convicted of fraud, years ago. He peddled his vitamin supplements to go with the amalgam removals, etc.... so, it's difficult to determine whether the vitamin supplements alone would have achieved the benefits to his patients' health without removing the amalgams. To evaluate this, one would have had to analyze the benefits of trialing the vitamin supplement program without removing the amalgams and then compare the results with the benefits of not having the vitamin supplement program and only removing the amalgams.

As for the alternate filling materials, eg: composite, these have their own negatives, such as reactions to the methylmethacrylates, shrinkages (with recurrent decay), etc. Some people are even allergic to gold.

It is a vast field with no one answer.

Yours sincerely,
John Wilson.

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Pike
To: jhwilson
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: Teeth

Dear John,

Good advice to Bruce. Balanced. The Mount Rodgers & Rainier Clinics with their research into amalgams noted similarly, advising people away from hasty symptom determinations.

In the early 90's and just before I came to TAS., seemed to be able to easily "catch the flu going 'round". A subtle, progressive thing and contrary to a healthy life previously enjoyed. The immune system had got so low that I had to get a doctor to visit at Kearns (Minto west) who diagnosed two viruses. I was so crook I really thought that I must be close to death.

Shortly after getting to Tassie, was working in the rain and cold, unprotected. Didn't think twice about this much repeated activity over a life of healthy and strong constitution. Wound up in bed for a week!!

Visiting Seventh Day Adventist friends sometime later, complained of ringing in the ears. They reckoned that that was a sure sign of amalgam toxicity. As you would know,

Tinnitus can be a symptom of several things including irregular bite. Had to distance myself from them some years later because of their sometimes unscriptual and extremist views on religion and diet. However, this had been very good advice in disguise. (The ringing is still around and comes and goes. Hardly ever notice it, but still have no idea of the cause). And, by the way had the metallic taste in the mouth

Since then, made lots of inquiry and read up on the subject of amalgams and finally had around 24 amal. fillings of various ages dating back to my mid 20's, replaced with composites. Then followed with good detox regime (Adventist's good advice) and never looked back. A remarkable speedy climb back to good health followed.

I was most glad to be rid of them.

During the removal program (one quadrant at a time) talked to lots of dentists as part of my little bit of reading and inquiry (heaps of stuff on the net). A dentist's receptionist in Melbourne (with all the stock replies ready) told me that there was more mercury in a fish from Port Phillip Bay than from amalgams. I told her about methyl mercury getting past brain & placenta barriers etc. (Didn't ring up to lecture them, but just for their input). A dentist in Tas. said that silver amalgams (they love that camouflage name when there is 50% mercury in them) are quite stable when placed in the mouth. I couldn't help asking him why, then, did they turn black.

Have talked to lots of people over the years, telling them that ALL amalgams are leaching methyl mercury, a very intrusive and dangerous poison, into their body by root canal, minute cracks or surface exposure and the rate may be governed by what they eat or drink and other factors. And as you put it, we are all different, and can often cope with varying quantities of these fillings, and to make sure that they get good medical advice for alternative solutions before racing off to have amals. removed.

Typically, an electrical engineer friend who is about my age and enjoyed good health all his life is presently carrying about 16 plus amls in his head with no sign of anything untoward. Know of many others, but few claim good health.

In the face of all the knowledge one gains on food diet (when you are interested), he made a profound comment to me.

He reckoned that diet had little to do with good health or longevity. Certainly in many cases, I have to agree with him.

Footnote: The bloke that did my replacements, In Hobart, used some kind of electronic device to determine if I had an amalgam under an existing gold cap. He reckoned that the test proved positive, but when the tooth was exposed, it had a composite!! He wasn't keen about replacing the wrecked gold cap, saying that his colleague (a dentist from Canada) had found some decay anyway. I questioned his colleague, who was a very nice bloke and happily, honest. They replced the cap FOC. Both wife & self had been good customers.

Hey, your pro bono advice costs a $120 sitting down here.

Your Uni project sounded interesting.

Kind regards,

Don

----- Original Message -----
From: jhwilson
To: Bruce Parsons
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Teeth

Dear Bruce,

Fillings are not a natural constituent of the human mouth. You can't taste your tongue or your cheeks but you can taste denture or filling materials. If those unnatural materials are not doing any harm, don't worry. If they are, then eliminate them and try something else. If the amalgam fillings (made of silver, copper, tin, zinc and mercury) are poisoning you to any degree, then have them removed and see if alternate restorations improve your health. With any poisoning, the first part of treatment is to eliminate the poison. If that is not practical, and there are no obvious clinical signs and symptoms of poisoning, vitamin supplements (eg: vitamin B in reasonably decent daily doses) can balance the equation and possibly be a preventative of symptoms developing. Vitamin B is also regarded as an antedote, ie: when the poisoning is evident and after the poisons have been removed. If you're looking at heavy metal poisoning from mercury, then do a Google search and find a checklist of symptoms which includes the "3Ds" of dermatitis, dementia and diarrhoea plus a lot of other conditions which might be attributed to some other causes. Don't forget that dentures and filling materials can contain cadmium, methyl methacrylate, etc. A bio-anaylsis is one way of finding out what metals, etc., are in your body ......and, even then, some people can tolerate levels which in others are damaging. Everyone is different and, again, there are many other causative agents which can be responsible for certain problems, either on their own or synergisticly, eg: fluoride (which is a Schedule 7 poison).

Yours sincerely,

John Wilson.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Parsons
To: John Wilson
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 12:10 PM
Subject: Teeth

Hi John

I have been having the taste of metal of some form in my mouth for some time and I'm not sure what to do , it comes and goes , it is from an area where I have fillings .

Could you advise what this could be please.

Yours Sincerely

Bruce

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