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"It is the opinion of this academy that responsible
government agencies should prohibit the use of these fillings until such
time as their manufacturers produce the alleged evidence of safety."
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The International Academy
of Oral Medicine & Toxicology (IAOMT), A professional organization
of dentists and physicians dedicated to the removal of mercury from dentistry.
A complete and reliable source of data on the toxicity of dental
amalgam. A 38 page bibliography lists scientific papers demonstrating
the health hazards of dental amalgam, up to date news reports and excellent
short videos. |
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IAOMT letter to Rep. Norwood summarizing
amalgam findings 12/05 (pdf) |
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Richard Fischer Testimony to Congressional
Hearing 9/8/04 (pdf) |
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Amalgam Mercury:The Effects of Retention
Toxicity, Synergistic Toxicities and Genetic Susceptibility - Dr.
Boyd Haley Professor, Department of Chemistry University of Kentucky 9/06
(pdf) |
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WHO (World Health Organization) Report on Mercury 8/05
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What Patients Don't
Know (pdf) 2/14/06 Zogby poll on what patients know and want to know
about amalgam fillings & dental care in the USA. |
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Material Safety Data Sheets for dental amalgam:
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Dental Amalgam Use - A Pollution
Prevention Perspective The Western Regional Pollution Prevention
Network (WRPPNTM) (pdf) |
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Health |
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IAOMT - The
Scientific Case Against Amalgam comprehensive review of scientfic
data on the safety of amalgam. (pdf) |
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Committee on Government Reform (Rep. Burton) Hearings on Amalgam
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Congresswoman Watson introduces "The Mercury in Dental Fillings
Disclosure and Prevention Act" 12/14/06 |
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Mercury Triggers Premature
Birth 10/30/06 (pdf) |
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The Beneficial Effect of Amalgam
Replacement on Health in Patients with Autoimmunity, Jarmila Prochazkova
et al, Neuroendocrinology Letters, No. 3Vol. 25, June 2004 (pdf) |
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The Relationship of the Toxic Effects
Of Mercury To Exacerabation Of The Medical Condition Classified As Alzheimer's
Disease (pdf)
Presentation by Boyd E. Haley at Autism One Conference, May 26-29, 2005 |
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Environmental
& Toxicological Concerns of Dental Amalgam & Mercury (pdf) |
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Northeast Zero Mercury Campaign Report
on Dental Amalgam (pdf) 4/4/05 |
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Online
Video of Boyd Haley on health effects of amalgam/thimerosal on health. |
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Boyd Haley Congressional Testimony
on Mercury Toxicity, May 8, 2003 (pdf) |
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Boyd Haley report to FDA,
The Relationship of Toxic Effects of Mercury to Exacerbation of the Medical
Condition classified as Alzheimer's Disease (pdf) |
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Results
from the Boyd Haley Laboratory Relating the Toxic Effects of Mercury to
Exacerbation of the Medical Condition Classified as Alzheimer's
Disease |
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Mercury
Toxicity, Gut Wall Infection, and Fatigue, shows the relationship
between mercury toxicity, irritable bowel diseases and chronic fatigue |
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KEMI (Sweden) Report 9/05 (pdf) |
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Sweden - Mercury in Dental fillings
- an updated risk analysis, the results of
a 5 year study which resulted in Sweden banning the use of amalgam. (pdf)
Excerpt: "For medical reasons,
amalgam should be eliminated in dental care as soon as possible. This will
confer gains in three respects. The prevalence of side-effects from patients'
mercury exposure will decline; occupational exposure to mercury can cease
in dental care; and one of our largest sources of mercury in the environment
can be eliminated.
Dental materials left in patients' mouths
should be treated as drugs for administrative purposes. Accordingly,
toxicological and clinical testing should be required. Reporting of side-effects
should also take place according to the same norms that apply to drugs.
It is imperative for doctors and dentists
to be made aware of the fact that all dental restoration materials can give
rise to side-effects, and that this eventuality should always be considered
when the patient's pathological state is unclear. Side-effects may conceivably
both cause, and be contributory factors in, various pathological states."
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Mercury on the Mind,
by Donald W. Miller JR, MD establishing data for the effects of mercury on
brain function and connection with Alzheimers & Autism. (pdf) |
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Amalgam
fillings -Twelve Points on Mercury Toxicity - effects on the body |
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Health
Hazards of Mercury, Eric Davis, Weston Price Foundation |
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Mercury
Toxicity by Flora Parsa Stay D.D.S. |
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Dental
Filling Dangers, Monte Kline, Ph.D., Pacific Health Center |
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Health Effects
of Amalgam Mercury Bibliography |
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Mercury
Amalgam Toxicity, interview with Charles Williamson, M.D., co-director
of the Toxic Studies Institute in Boca Raton, Florida and colleague, Jordan
Davis, M.D |
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Mercury Free &
Healthy, articles & bibliography of research abstracts etc. |
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Elements of Risk, Canada Legion
Magazine '03 |
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Amalgam
& Health Bibliography |
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Mercury
Amalgam Safety, Dr. Zoltan P. Rona MD MSc describing relationship
of amalgam to health and facial pain syndromes |
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Maine Dental Fillings
Materials Patient Brochure (pdf) |
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How
Mercury-Tainted Tuna Damages Fetal Brains (mechanism is the same
from mercury from the mother's amalgams) |
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Environmental
Working Group (EWG) Mercury Primer |
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Mercury Threat to Fetus Raised
(Washington Post - pdf) |
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" As every dentist knows, it is a good risk
management practice to discuss the risks and benefits of a proposed treatment
plan with a patient before starting treatment. In many cases, the dentist
has a cooresponding legal obligation to obtain informed consent from a patient
before beginning treatment " Oct 2003 JADA (Journal of the
American Dental Association) cover story A Duty to Disclose, Issues to Consider
in Securing Informed Consent" |
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Environmental Concerns with Mercury Amalgam
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The Problem: Reservoirs of mercury must go somewhere. The
cremation rate in the US is nearly 50% (higher in some locations).
Mercury amalgam in the human body goes into toxic air emissions
during cremation. In the UK, where they are carefully monitoring these emissions,
they estimate 16% of their total air emissions of mercury are from
cremation. |
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Cremation costs to
rise as tooth fillings poison the living 1/9/07 (pdf) |
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Environmental Impacts of Dental
Amalgam (pdf) |
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Cremations ban planned
to cut mercury pollution - UK 12/29/05 (pdf) |
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'Mad' rule on teeth
of dead - Wales 11/17/05 (pdf) |
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Dental fillings mean
dearer cremations - Leeds 10/18/05 (pdf) |
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Plan for freeze-dry body
disposal - BBC 10/13/05 (pdf) |
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Mercury Emissions from
Creamatoria, Natural Resources Council of Maine 5/05 (pdf) |
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Over
1,000 Tons of Dental Mercury to be Emitted in Next 10-15 Years; Report Grades
New England States' Progress on Reducing Mercury Use 4/4/05 |
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Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District |
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"The Association of Metropolitan Sewerage
Agencies (AMSA) reports that mercury levels in household wastewater are
sufficiently high to pose Clean Water Act compliance problems for the nation's
wastewater treatment plants. Although several sources contributing to the
domestic mercury concentrations have been identified, human wastes (feces
and urine) from individuals with dental amalgam fillings are believed to
be the most significant source — greater than 80 percent."
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The Association of
Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA) report 2000 (pdf) |
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The Association of Metropolitan
Sewerage Agencies (AMSA) report 2002 (pdf) |
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Swedish Review of data
on Sludge (pdf) Mercury is very difficult to remove from
wastewater. Most of the mercury collected in wastewater sludge, is
sent to landfills, sludge-incinerators, composting facilities or spread on
farmers fields. |
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Dental Amalgam - Environmental
Aspects, D. Arenholt-Bindsley, Royal Dental College, Denmark, 1992
(pdf) |
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Leaders & Laggards:
The 2002 Report Card on Mercury Elimination in New England (pdf) |
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Mercury in Waste
Dental Amalgam: Why Is It Still A Problem 2003 study of amalgam in
wastewater treatment plants in Canada with some USA data (pdf) |
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Reduction in Mercury
Loading to Four Toronto Area Sewage Treatment Plants Due to Implementation
of an Amalgam Separator By-Law (pdf) |
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Vermont Dental Amalgam Separator
Pilot Project (pdf) |
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MAXIMUM Separation Systems
Inc. Amalgam Separators, letter to dentists (pdf) |
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Mercury Can Make You Sick
NJDHSS, Occupational Health Surveillance Program (pdf) |
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Canada-wide
Standards for dental amalgam waste |
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Dental Mercury Use and Release
Reduction (pdf) |
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Dentist the Menace,
discussion of disposal of mercury waste (pdf) |
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IAOMT Position Paper - Environmental
Committee (Separators) pdf |
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Mercury in Dental
Offices "Many common demolition activities such as cutting
out sewage pipes can release large amounts of mercury steam and can be dangerous
to the workers." |
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Legal |
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Barnes vs. Kerr - Federal
court finding that dental amalgam was adequately labeled as a poisonous substance
in its amalgam state (pdf) |
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Federal Insurance v. ADA
(pdf), In conjunction with a lawsuit filed in 2004 in Ohio for damages
from mercury fillings, Federal Insurance, a division of CHUBB, has sued the
ADA stating that the ADA is not insured for said damages by fact that the
placement of mercury fillings was an intentional act regardless of known
risks. This is that complaint (75 pgs.) |
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Maine Dental Fillings
Materials Patient Brochure (pdf) |
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Anti-amalgam Resolution of Black Caucus
2002 (pdf) |
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Legal position of the American Dental Association (ADA) on the
safety of mercury dental amalgam use by dentists in the USA:
"The ADA owes no legal duty of care to protect
the public from allegedly dangerous products used by dentists. The ADA did
not manufacture, design, supply or install the mercury-containing amalgams.
The ADA does not control those who do. The ADA's only alleged involvement
in the product was to provide information regarding its use. Dissemination
of information relating to the practice of dentistry does not create a duty
of care to protect the public from potential injury".
Source: Legal brief filed in 1995 by attorneys for the ADA in W.H.
Tolhurst vs. Johnson and Johnson Consumer Products, Inc.; Engelhard Corporation;
ABE Dental, Inc.; the American Dental Association, et al., in the Superior
Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Santa Clara, CA,
Case No. 718228. |
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American Dental Association
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ADA Best Management Practices 2005 (pdf) |
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ADA Code of Ethics 2005
(pdf) |
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ADA Precautions to Dental
Practices on Handling of Mercury (pdf) |
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