The WHO also concluded that there was no safe minimum dose of mercury. “Symptoms are known to occur, at least among some of the population, at every level of exposure.”
NO. DO NOT DO IT. I haven't met anyone yet who wasn't worse off from taking out those fillings. The process can destroy the rest of your teeth - it is very hard on the structures. Despite the claims? The fillings are just fine. You might consider how dangerous asbestos abatement is - it's better to leave it in situ and work around it.
This idea makes the rounds every ten years or so. Dentists are going to not mind at all - you will be bringing them business and AFTERs the fillings are out - you need MORE dental work! Oh, and imagine the expenses? Leave the fillings alone!
Go have your hair, your nails, your blood all checked for metals first. Choose your functional medicine doctor with care. Do chelation Therapy if there are heavy metals and so forth.
Look for EEO2 Or EEOO treatment where they can basically do blood dialysis and oxygenate and ozonate your blood. The dialysis filter pulls a lot of toxins out, very safe, and the ozone and oxygenation really do cool things. Some machines will use UV on your blood with it as well. There are youtube videos about the RHB machine and this process. There are peer reviewed papers as well, check pubmed, frontiers, etc. A couple of videos to start your research and investigation:
The funny thing is when my general dentistry colleagues who try to practice in as professional a way as possible explain the scientific data that might suggest leaving the amalgams in place (and believe me, I cannot overstate how much I understand why we 'd like an alternative to silver/mercury amalgams), patients tend to still insist on full replacement. Then when my colleagues state something along the lines I mentioned below in that they (my DDS colleagues) stand to make thousands of extra dollars in income related not only to replacement of the fillings themselves but the downstream dental disease sequelae, the patients listen! Hmm, if my DDS is turning away income, maybe there's something to what my DDS is trying to tell me. As with COVID, people don't care about rational argumentation apart from blunt force 'coercion' so to speak.
And there is that drive to "do SOMETHING!" to make affirmative steps and not feel helpless - even if they are not in their best interests (sometimes people have itches, and they are going to find a way to scratch them no matter what!). I find many people want to have the talk bites - phrases to use repeatedly mantra like, but they won't invest the brain work to check it out despite the information available. They will ask their peers and read some shallow stuff (imo) and consult with those who will pander to them because they aren't interested in listening. My own mother drove me nuts because she wanted to be deceived! Disabusing her from fraud was almost a fulltime job at times while growing up. Argh! Yes, I agree there needs to be alternatives to those amalgams, but chemistry and materials science isn't cooperating yet.
Except you can not safely chelate with amalgams still in your head or you will pull the mercury out of your fillings and into your brain and organs. There ARE relatively safe ways to remove them. Use a biodentist trained in safe removal. The IAOMT website and Andy Cutler Chelation are very good resources. I removed my 9 amalgams I had had for 50+ years using the safe removal protocol 5 yrs ago and my health benefits have been amazing. Things I never even knew could be associated with mercury poisoning. Light sensitivity gone. Insomnia was gone for 3 yrs and then I got Covid so struggling again with that. Blood pressure now ideal after trending up for a few years. Aches and pains I thought were from just being older, gone. Tooth cold sensitivity gone. Able to read books again without losing my ability to concentrate. Earaches in cold wind gone. Air hunger gone. Able to reduce slightly my thyroid meds. And many more. In the Andy Cutler Chelation group on FB there are TONS of success stories. One of the moderators even halted her MS progression. She has the brain scans that show this. Chelating safely and correctly is a long process. It took me two years, and I was on the quick side. But very worth it. noamalgam.com
NO, that is not true. Chelation doesn't work that way. Chelation pulls it out of live tissues and fluids. The fillings are enclosed in the inert portion of the teeth.
Fillings are not enclosed. Your teeth are like sponges with tiny micro tubules that are connected to blood vessels that travel to your brain and everywhere.
Okay - But again - carefully chosen tests will pick up toxicities. There are some good ones. I do not doubt amalgams less well done or subjected to a chemical reaction even very mild can affect someone who is susceptible. They should be carefully checked out before opening it all up and dealing with the disease it inflicts on the teeth and mouth and jaws in taking them out. I know some people very sensitive to chemicals and substances. Taking out fillings is usually a drastic step for most people. If they want them out, they will find someone to do it. Same things happen with certain surgeries. if there is toxicity it can be picked up. There are some gifted functional medicine docs around that will find the issues people are having. If it works for you to have filings removed by no doubt good hazmat dentists you are able to locate, then awesome.
I have seen people talked into the process by well-meaning people and oh wow, they are having worse problems and they didn't have any problems in the first place.
You probably make a good point here. The same is true for asbestos. Asbestos is dangerous if disturbed and inhaled. Not while it is in your attic, or on tape surrounding a hot pipe.
Mercury is easy to work with.
Generally speaking, it seems to me dentists like big bank accounts...so whatever contributes to that outcome will be considered.
Dentists, like doctors have high overhead. It's an expensive business to be in. And I do want my dentists, like my doctor to be well paid - I want a happy, financially secure competent professional. However... they are human and not immune to those financial interests. Too many dentists are not as tooth-sparing dedicated in their practice methods, and those that are, are having to clean and patch up their patients up after years of damage from past work. So, the fillings that eventually lead to bigger fillings that eventually lead to crowns, etc. They have access to better materials now - my dentist keeps up with all the materials and adhesive science, takes his entire office to the biggest conferences every 2-3 years. He works hard, works to have a cohesive staff that understands and speaks up without fear. I watch him explaining to them all the time. If they aren't wanting to learn and expand their skills the weed themselves out of his practice. He manages his time closely and juggles, he tries. He is very upbeat and determined. Hope he can keep it up without burning out and getting hit too hard by the economy. The capital investment required is ferocious.
But yeah, I have seen the ah - keeping the lifestyle up. The guy that has been in the small time near me, does well. I remember back when for a couple years he decided he was qualified to do some day trading. Oh man! And then, his wife pointed out with the 2 growing boys, they were going to need their own separate bedrooms soon, and didn't he still want that shop, and a new 4-wheeler for hunting? They refinanced everything - so the dental practice became more aggressive - er, assertive - in focus, shall I say, about its dental health philosophy?
Please explain why we have just dis continued mercury. Thermometers, and thimerisol and if you have a mercury spill in your home, you have to have agents in in Hazmat suits to remove the Mercury spell, but we can still put thimerosal in vaccines?
Quite likely the only thing WHO has gotten right. Dentists poisoning people for decades with mercury fillings and big pharma poisoning children for decades with both mercury and aluminum vaccines and drugs. Of course, there never has been any testing or studies to determine if any of this was or is a safe practice. Sound familiar all you vaccine and mRNA gene altering poison lovers?
I'm 61 years old and have been walking around with a head full of mercury for 50 years. Other than being a life long conservative with critical thinking skills and more common sense than 99 percent of the general poulation I haven't suffered any other ill effects from those fillings.
I tend to agree with the previous poster, this is a great revenue generator for all the starving dentists out there.
I am 10 years older and have a few of them too. The real unknown is that we don't know if in the long run they end up creating health problems that eventually cut life short.
I did this in 2006, thanks to Dr. Mercola. I had developed an odd facial twitch, and hand tremors. Had a biological dentist (a Mormon) in San Diego remove all my amalgams. On the day he did such extractions, he would not allow his employees to be in the office, kept all the windows open, and was in a near full hazmat suit.
The benefits (I was also chelating mercury via cilantro, MSM, alpha-lipoic acid, etc) were almost immediate. I slept MUCH better. Tremors gone within a week. This was pretty revelatory to me, and I recalled the FILTHY jewish dentist who filled my mouth with this poison, when I was a child. Dr. Mosner was his name, he owned and raced greyhounds, with all the winnings he made, filling Goyim with poisons.
I had a bad reaction to mercury root canal work. Had to have surgery to have the root canal removed. I also have a thyroid issue which may be connected. Following that I had all of my fillings removed by a Dr. McKnight in Saint John, NB. She specializes in this. She closed her clinic for a day to perform the procedure because of the toxicity. It took all day and she has all of the necessary equipment to perform the procedure safely and contain the mercury once removed. I would highly recommend her.
This must be the worst advice I've ever read. First of all, as a small child, I remember my Mom taking me to a dentist and getting cavities filled which looking back on it now seems unusual since we were never allowed to have sugar drinks or candy. My Mom never questioned it, and we went every 6 months for cleanings which at the time was unusual since most people couldn't afford to do that and dental insurance didn't exist. I have to wonder if I really had cavities to fill or if my parents were paying to fill the dentists bank account. Fast forward to when I was a newlywed and my husband had a really great dental plan and we went to a dentist who came highly recommended. On my first visit he advised me I had to get those "old" fillings replaced because they were going to cause me problems down the road. I don't remember him mentioning mercury, but I'm sure that was the reason. Being young and not knowing better, I let him go ahead and do this. What I didn't know was replacing cavities meant it weakened the tooth structure because they drill out the filling and take a significant amount of the tooth with it. Since then I've had nothing but problems with my teeth. Chipping, breaking, almost everyone of those teeth has had to be crowned, and one even broke off so bad it required an implant to fix. At the cost of $5000. Which insurance doesn't cover. Don't believe the commercials you see on TV about implants being a 1 day procedure either. It was 6 months of agony. Mine required a bone graft, I had to go 6 months without a tooth in that spot(thankfully it was in the back so not noticeable) and made numerous trips to the endodontist for checks and xrays. I don't trust any dentist now. Everytime I go to one and they tell me I have a cavity, I try to find one for a second opinion. Complicating things is I had both knees replaced a few years ago, which went great, but my surgeon insists I take antibiotics before any invasive procedures. Now the ADA says that is not necessary, but they aren't the ones with the artifical knees and the Dentist isn't the one who is going to deal with any bone infection that may arise. So most of them will give you a RX for antibiotics and go on with their life. But I ran into one a few years ago , who's office manager felt she needed to "educate" me on the reasons that antibiotics weren't necessary. Once she finished her condescending diatribe , I informed her I was a nurse and had researched the issue thoroughly, and would be happy to have my surgeon who has published over 200 research articles on knee surgeries give her a call and explain his rationale for treatment. She left in a huff. And I found another dentist. If your teeth aren't causing any problems, and if you aren't having any chronic health issues that doctors can't seem to find the source of, leave your fillings alone. As the saying goes, let sleeping dogs lie.
While I have no idea as to whether you initially needed fillings. And even if you didn't consume sugars, due to certain anatomical variances in enamel structure, or other factors to detailed to discuss here, you might still have developed decay. Impossible to ever know at this point. But it was your experience to which I was generally alluding to when I warned against willy nilly replacement of all one's amalgam fillings with composite/white fillings. The composites cannot withstand the bite forces in the back teeth that amalgam (or gold or caps/crowns) can. And you hit the nail on the head when mentioning that even with careful removal of old amalgam restorations you lose other tooth material. Some DDSs do this on purpose to remove any amalgam-stained remaining tooth structure so that the new composite/white-tooth-coloured restoration will look better. But as someone who has worked in the area of chronic orofacial pain for years, too many people who have elected to replace their amalgams with composite restorations are in for lots of suffering. I'm sure there are many who are OK. And I'm sure that there are those who are convinced that the removal of the amalgams helped this or that disease (e.g., MS), but I'd be loathe to ascribe some of the rather miraculous and virtually instantaneous improvements to removal of the restorations alone if at all. After all, during removal of these restorations, patients are exposed to a huge load of now-aerosolized mercury. How come they didn't at least get even a bit worse before they became better? How is it that the improvements we sometimes see being reported are more or less within days or less! I don't know the answer. But after what I've seen of the suffering and damage, I'd never recommend this approach. Or at least not all at once!
Thanks for that analysis. My husband and I have been married 45 years. In all that time he has never had to have one thing done to his teeth other than cleaning. A few years ago we went to a new dentist because ours had retired. On our first visit, when we were done, we came out and they told me I had 2 cavities that need to be filled, and him that he had 2 cavities and 3 fillings that needed to be replaced. He was perplexed and said to me, "What do we do, I wasn't expecting that?" I said we leave and never come back. See, that's what is so hard about dentistry. When I would scrub in on a gallbladder case with a surgeon, you didn't have to worry if a surgeon was doing unnecessary surgeries because whatever was removed was sent to pathology. If perfectly healthly organs kept getting sent to the lab by the same surgeon, eventually that got noticed and a medical review board was notified and the cases were reviewed. With a cavity, the only one who knows there is actually decay is the person drilling out the decay. There is no proof it was actually there. So it is incumbent on the dentist to be ethical in their practice. But at least no one will die from having a unnecessary tooth drilled for a cavity. Unlike the medical doctors who murdered patients in the hospitals with their treatments for Covid.
Be prepared for pain, recurrent decay, root canal problems and more. I’ve seen it all. Think about it. As a dentist I often would tell people to not have all their restorations replaced, and instead to keep their amalgam restorations. I stood to gain thousands and thousands of dollars of income and yet still didn’t want to do that to my patients. I have been the victim of having received , unwillingly, composite posterior fillings to replace amalgam restorations (that had lasted oh, about 27 years) and the teeth so treated were painful and symptomatic until I finally convinced my dentist to remove the composite fillings and replace them with regular amalgam restorations. Nothing is perfect. There is a cost benefit to everything. I would suggest that the sequelae related to the use of these white composite restorations, particularly in back teeth where there are heavy bite forces is simply not a good idea, unless and until better and more reliable, composite restoration materials have been invented and can be used for the purposes that usually require amalgam. And actually, gold fillings are probably the best but require even more skill which most general dentists just don't have leading to less than effective final restorations; often leaky. A leaky gold filling will give you lots of trouble. Amalgam is much more forgiving and you can still arrive at a functional restoration even if you're not the Albert Schweitzer of dentistry. To reiterate, I wish there was something better than amalgam but really, from a day to day perspective, there isn't.
I had a few mercury fillings that I had replaced with composites a few years ago. While I think that the composites are better than mercury, I would not be surprised if the composite fillings turn out to be leeching toxic chemicals like BPA into our bodies as well. I suspect that gold fillings are probably the safest.
I had mercury toxicity when I had my amalgam fillings removed. I specifically asked my dentist to remove them properly and he assured me he would. He did not remove them as safely as required, and I ended up with intestinal symptoms from the mercury toxicity. He was too lazy and dismissive of me to do it properly.
There are a few incorrect word uses im the top part of the article. Orthodontist or endodontist should be used instead of orthopedic.
Sorry to hear that. I found an IAOMT dentist 20+ years ago. She did the full protocol, rubber dam (I think it's called), air vac, etc. I had no trouble. She and the assistant used air-supplied masks because they don't want to inhale it.
Crazy thing is, regular dentists will replace amalgams with amalgams when they get worn, and use no protocol. "See," they'll say, "much ado about nothing." Quacks using their quacksilver.
Another brilliant post... which shows how inept and stupid the people running WHO are...and THEY want full control?... like handing control of A380 airbus to monkey while the pilots take a Kip... what could possibly go wrong?
Drilling out amalgam and thus aerosolizing the mercury in it? Which you are then breathing in?
No thanks.
I've actually discussed this with my dentist (who gets heavy metals levels done on a regular basis). She has a colleague who specializes in removing and replacing amalgam fillings. She became mercury toxic and nearly died.
NO. DO NOT DO IT. I haven't met anyone yet who wasn't worse off from taking out those fillings. The process can destroy the rest of your teeth - it is very hard on the structures. Despite the claims? The fillings are just fine. You might consider how dangerous asbestos abatement is - it's better to leave it in situ and work around it.
This idea makes the rounds every ten years or so. Dentists are going to not mind at all - you will be bringing them business and AFTERs the fillings are out - you need MORE dental work! Oh, and imagine the expenses? Leave the fillings alone!
Go have your hair, your nails, your blood all checked for metals first. Choose your functional medicine doctor with care. Do chelation Therapy if there are heavy metals and so forth.
Look for EEO2 Or EEOO treatment where they can basically do blood dialysis and oxygenate and ozonate your blood. The dialysis filter pulls a lot of toxins out, very safe, and the ozone and oxygenation really do cool things. Some machines will use UV on your blood with it as well. There are youtube videos about the RHB machine and this process. There are peer reviewed papers as well, check pubmed, frontiers, etc. A couple of videos to start your research and investigation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-wU6kEIaic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnuCLREdsi8
The funny thing is when my general dentistry colleagues who try to practice in as professional a way as possible explain the scientific data that might suggest leaving the amalgams in place (and believe me, I cannot overstate how much I understand why we 'd like an alternative to silver/mercury amalgams), patients tend to still insist on full replacement. Then when my colleagues state something along the lines I mentioned below in that they (my DDS colleagues) stand to make thousands of extra dollars in income related not only to replacement of the fillings themselves but the downstream dental disease sequelae, the patients listen! Hmm, if my DDS is turning away income, maybe there's something to what my DDS is trying to tell me. As with COVID, people don't care about rational argumentation apart from blunt force 'coercion' so to speak.
And there is that drive to "do SOMETHING!" to make affirmative steps and not feel helpless - even if they are not in their best interests (sometimes people have itches, and they are going to find a way to scratch them no matter what!). I find many people want to have the talk bites - phrases to use repeatedly mantra like, but they won't invest the brain work to check it out despite the information available. They will ask their peers and read some shallow stuff (imo) and consult with those who will pander to them because they aren't interested in listening. My own mother drove me nuts because she wanted to be deceived! Disabusing her from fraud was almost a fulltime job at times while growing up. Argh! Yes, I agree there needs to be alternatives to those amalgams, but chemistry and materials science isn't cooperating yet.
Except you can not safely chelate with amalgams still in your head or you will pull the mercury out of your fillings and into your brain and organs. There ARE relatively safe ways to remove them. Use a biodentist trained in safe removal. The IAOMT website and Andy Cutler Chelation are very good resources. I removed my 9 amalgams I had had for 50+ years using the safe removal protocol 5 yrs ago and my health benefits have been amazing. Things I never even knew could be associated with mercury poisoning. Light sensitivity gone. Insomnia was gone for 3 yrs and then I got Covid so struggling again with that. Blood pressure now ideal after trending up for a few years. Aches and pains I thought were from just being older, gone. Tooth cold sensitivity gone. Able to read books again without losing my ability to concentrate. Earaches in cold wind gone. Air hunger gone. Able to reduce slightly my thyroid meds. And many more. In the Andy Cutler Chelation group on FB there are TONS of success stories. One of the moderators even halted her MS progression. She has the brain scans that show this. Chelating safely and correctly is a long process. It took me two years, and I was on the quick side. But very worth it. noamalgam.com
NO, that is not true. Chelation doesn't work that way. Chelation pulls it out of live tissues and fluids. The fillings are enclosed in the inert portion of the teeth.
Fillings are not enclosed. Your teeth are like sponges with tiny micro tubules that are connected to blood vessels that travel to your brain and everywhere.
Okay - But again - carefully chosen tests will pick up toxicities. There are some good ones. I do not doubt amalgams less well done or subjected to a chemical reaction even very mild can affect someone who is susceptible. They should be carefully checked out before opening it all up and dealing with the disease it inflicts on the teeth and mouth and jaws in taking them out. I know some people very sensitive to chemicals and substances. Taking out fillings is usually a drastic step for most people. If they want them out, they will find someone to do it. Same things happen with certain surgeries. if there is toxicity it can be picked up. There are some gifted functional medicine docs around that will find the issues people are having. If it works for you to have filings removed by no doubt good hazmat dentists you are able to locate, then awesome.
I have seen people talked into the process by well-meaning people and oh wow, they are having worse problems and they didn't have any problems in the first place.
You probably make a good point here. The same is true for asbestos. Asbestos is dangerous if disturbed and inhaled. Not while it is in your attic, or on tape surrounding a hot pipe.
Mercury is easy to work with.
Generally speaking, it seems to me dentists like big bank accounts...so whatever contributes to that outcome will be considered.
Dentists, like doctors have high overhead. It's an expensive business to be in. And I do want my dentists, like my doctor to be well paid - I want a happy, financially secure competent professional. However... they are human and not immune to those financial interests. Too many dentists are not as tooth-sparing dedicated in their practice methods, and those that are, are having to clean and patch up their patients up after years of damage from past work. So, the fillings that eventually lead to bigger fillings that eventually lead to crowns, etc. They have access to better materials now - my dentist keeps up with all the materials and adhesive science, takes his entire office to the biggest conferences every 2-3 years. He works hard, works to have a cohesive staff that understands and speaks up without fear. I watch him explaining to them all the time. If they aren't wanting to learn and expand their skills the weed themselves out of his practice. He manages his time closely and juggles, he tries. He is very upbeat and determined. Hope he can keep it up without burning out and getting hit too hard by the economy. The capital investment required is ferocious.
But yeah, I have seen the ah - keeping the lifestyle up. The guy that has been in the small time near me, does well. I remember back when for a couple years he decided he was qualified to do some day trading. Oh man! And then, his wife pointed out with the 2 growing boys, they were going to need their own separate bedrooms soon, and didn't he still want that shop, and a new 4-wheeler for hunting? They refinanced everything - so the dental practice became more aggressive - er, assertive - in focus, shall I say, about its dental health philosophy?
Please explain why we have just dis continued mercury. Thermometers, and thimerisol and if you have a mercury spill in your home, you have to have agents in in Hazmat suits to remove the Mercury spell, but we can still put thimerosal in vaccines?
Well, that's obvious why. I'm not understanding your - challenge?
It is interesting that if a small vial of mercury were spilled on a school floor it would cause an evacuation....unless it showed up in smiles.
Or how about breaking on of those "green" mercury filled light bulbs? You are supposed to call in a hazmat team to clean even those up.
Quite likely the only thing WHO has gotten right. Dentists poisoning people for decades with mercury fillings and big pharma poisoning children for decades with both mercury and aluminum vaccines and drugs. Of course, there never has been any testing or studies to determine if any of this was or is a safe practice. Sound familiar all you vaccine and mRNA gene altering poison lovers?
I'm 61 years old and have been walking around with a head full of mercury for 50 years. Other than being a life long conservative with critical thinking skills and more common sense than 99 percent of the general poulation I haven't suffered any other ill effects from those fillings.
I tend to agree with the previous poster, this is a great revenue generator for all the starving dentists out there.
I am 10 years older and have a few of them too. The real unknown is that we don't know if in the long run they end up creating health problems that eventually cut life short.
I did this in 2006, thanks to Dr. Mercola. I had developed an odd facial twitch, and hand tremors. Had a biological dentist (a Mormon) in San Diego remove all my amalgams. On the day he did such extractions, he would not allow his employees to be in the office, kept all the windows open, and was in a near full hazmat suit.
The benefits (I was also chelating mercury via cilantro, MSM, alpha-lipoic acid, etc) were almost immediate. I slept MUCH better. Tremors gone within a week. This was pretty revelatory to me, and I recalled the FILTHY jewish dentist who filled my mouth with this poison, when I was a child. Dr. Mosner was his name, he owned and raced greyhounds, with all the winnings he made, filling Goyim with poisons.
I had a bad reaction to mercury root canal work. Had to have surgery to have the root canal removed. I also have a thyroid issue which may be connected. Following that I had all of my fillings removed by a Dr. McKnight in Saint John, NB. She specializes in this. She closed her clinic for a day to perform the procedure because of the toxicity. It took all day and she has all of the necessary equipment to perform the procedure safely and contain the mercury once removed. I would highly recommend her.
No such thing as a mercury root canal! Silver point maybe? Those are really bad.
yes silver
Had my amalgams replaced 20+ years ago. Sure, you spend $$. I don't regret it.
The stuff is toxic. It's that simple.
This must be the worst advice I've ever read. First of all, as a small child, I remember my Mom taking me to a dentist and getting cavities filled which looking back on it now seems unusual since we were never allowed to have sugar drinks or candy. My Mom never questioned it, and we went every 6 months for cleanings which at the time was unusual since most people couldn't afford to do that and dental insurance didn't exist. I have to wonder if I really had cavities to fill or if my parents were paying to fill the dentists bank account. Fast forward to when I was a newlywed and my husband had a really great dental plan and we went to a dentist who came highly recommended. On my first visit he advised me I had to get those "old" fillings replaced because they were going to cause me problems down the road. I don't remember him mentioning mercury, but I'm sure that was the reason. Being young and not knowing better, I let him go ahead and do this. What I didn't know was replacing cavities meant it weakened the tooth structure because they drill out the filling and take a significant amount of the tooth with it. Since then I've had nothing but problems with my teeth. Chipping, breaking, almost everyone of those teeth has had to be crowned, and one even broke off so bad it required an implant to fix. At the cost of $5000. Which insurance doesn't cover. Don't believe the commercials you see on TV about implants being a 1 day procedure either. It was 6 months of agony. Mine required a bone graft, I had to go 6 months without a tooth in that spot(thankfully it was in the back so not noticeable) and made numerous trips to the endodontist for checks and xrays. I don't trust any dentist now. Everytime I go to one and they tell me I have a cavity, I try to find one for a second opinion. Complicating things is I had both knees replaced a few years ago, which went great, but my surgeon insists I take antibiotics before any invasive procedures. Now the ADA says that is not necessary, but they aren't the ones with the artifical knees and the Dentist isn't the one who is going to deal with any bone infection that may arise. So most of them will give you a RX for antibiotics and go on with their life. But I ran into one a few years ago , who's office manager felt she needed to "educate" me on the reasons that antibiotics weren't necessary. Once she finished her condescending diatribe , I informed her I was a nurse and had researched the issue thoroughly, and would be happy to have my surgeon who has published over 200 research articles on knee surgeries give her a call and explain his rationale for treatment. She left in a huff. And I found another dentist. If your teeth aren't causing any problems, and if you aren't having any chronic health issues that doctors can't seem to find the source of, leave your fillings alone. As the saying goes, let sleeping dogs lie.
While I have no idea as to whether you initially needed fillings. And even if you didn't consume sugars, due to certain anatomical variances in enamel structure, or other factors to detailed to discuss here, you might still have developed decay. Impossible to ever know at this point. But it was your experience to which I was generally alluding to when I warned against willy nilly replacement of all one's amalgam fillings with composite/white fillings. The composites cannot withstand the bite forces in the back teeth that amalgam (or gold or caps/crowns) can. And you hit the nail on the head when mentioning that even with careful removal of old amalgam restorations you lose other tooth material. Some DDSs do this on purpose to remove any amalgam-stained remaining tooth structure so that the new composite/white-tooth-coloured restoration will look better. But as someone who has worked in the area of chronic orofacial pain for years, too many people who have elected to replace their amalgams with composite restorations are in for lots of suffering. I'm sure there are many who are OK. And I'm sure that there are those who are convinced that the removal of the amalgams helped this or that disease (e.g., MS), but I'd be loathe to ascribe some of the rather miraculous and virtually instantaneous improvements to removal of the restorations alone if at all. After all, during removal of these restorations, patients are exposed to a huge load of now-aerosolized mercury. How come they didn't at least get even a bit worse before they became better? How is it that the improvements we sometimes see being reported are more or less within days or less! I don't know the answer. But after what I've seen of the suffering and damage, I'd never recommend this approach. Or at least not all at once!
Thanks for that analysis. My husband and I have been married 45 years. In all that time he has never had to have one thing done to his teeth other than cleaning. A few years ago we went to a new dentist because ours had retired. On our first visit, when we were done, we came out and they told me I had 2 cavities that need to be filled, and him that he had 2 cavities and 3 fillings that needed to be replaced. He was perplexed and said to me, "What do we do, I wasn't expecting that?" I said we leave and never come back. See, that's what is so hard about dentistry. When I would scrub in on a gallbladder case with a surgeon, you didn't have to worry if a surgeon was doing unnecessary surgeries because whatever was removed was sent to pathology. If perfectly healthly organs kept getting sent to the lab by the same surgeon, eventually that got noticed and a medical review board was notified and the cases were reviewed. With a cavity, the only one who knows there is actually decay is the person drilling out the decay. There is no proof it was actually there. So it is incumbent on the dentist to be ethical in their practice. But at least no one will die from having a unnecessary tooth drilled for a cavity. Unlike the medical doctors who murdered patients in the hospitals with their treatments for Covid.
Be prepared for pain, recurrent decay, root canal problems and more. I’ve seen it all. Think about it. As a dentist I often would tell people to not have all their restorations replaced, and instead to keep their amalgam restorations. I stood to gain thousands and thousands of dollars of income and yet still didn’t want to do that to my patients. I have been the victim of having received , unwillingly, composite posterior fillings to replace amalgam restorations (that had lasted oh, about 27 years) and the teeth so treated were painful and symptomatic until I finally convinced my dentist to remove the composite fillings and replace them with regular amalgam restorations. Nothing is perfect. There is a cost benefit to everything. I would suggest that the sequelae related to the use of these white composite restorations, particularly in back teeth where there are heavy bite forces is simply not a good idea, unless and until better and more reliable, composite restoration materials have been invented and can be used for the purposes that usually require amalgam. And actually, gold fillings are probably the best but require even more skill which most general dentists just don't have leading to less than effective final restorations; often leaky. A leaky gold filling will give you lots of trouble. Amalgam is much more forgiving and you can still arrive at a functional restoration even if you're not the Albert Schweitzer of dentistry. To reiterate, I wish there was something better than amalgam but really, from a day to day perspective, there isn't.
I had a few mercury fillings that I had replaced with composites a few years ago. While I think that the composites are better than mercury, I would not be surprised if the composite fillings turn out to be leeching toxic chemicals like BPA into our bodies as well. I suspect that gold fillings are probably the safest.
Start with a 3D Cone Beam exam. Read Dr. Thomas Levy. Ills stem from the mouth. Also, Weston A. Price, a pioneer in this area.
I had mercury toxicity when I had my amalgam fillings removed. I specifically asked my dentist to remove them properly and he assured me he would. He did not remove them as safely as required, and I ended up with intestinal symptoms from the mercury toxicity. He was too lazy and dismissive of me to do it properly.
There are a few incorrect word uses im the top part of the article. Orthodontist or endodontist should be used instead of orthopedic.
Sorry to hear that. I found an IAOMT dentist 20+ years ago. She did the full protocol, rubber dam (I think it's called), air vac, etc. I had no trouble. She and the assistant used air-supplied masks because they don't want to inhale it.
Crazy thing is, regular dentists will replace amalgams with amalgams when they get worn, and use no protocol. "See," they'll say, "much ado about nothing." Quacks using their quacksilver.
What an excellent podcast about the hazards of mercury , and towards the end
Flouride issues , both detrimental to our health ,ever thought the podcast was stopping intermittently I listened to it to the end !!
Another brilliant post... which shows how inept and stupid the people running WHO are...and THEY want full control?... like handing control of A380 airbus to monkey while the pilots take a Kip... what could possibly go wrong?
Stupid No , bought yes ,
...and yet, they still pour mercury into childhood vaccines and inject them into newborns 😡
Drilling out amalgam and thus aerosolizing the mercury in it? Which you are then breathing in?
No thanks.
I've actually discussed this with my dentist (who gets heavy metals levels done on a regular basis). She has a colleague who specializes in removing and replacing amalgam fillings. She became mercury toxic and nearly died.