Choosing a Dentist

Discover Wellness
by Phyllis Taber-Greenberg

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In ending this chapter, I would like to expound on the importance of selecting the dentist. The dentist that removed my amalgams is in West Palm Beach, Florida, and his name is Dr. Medlock. He was trained by Dr. Huggins and is a very sincere, conscientious person. Working with him and his staff was a pure delight. The staff always greeted me with an upbeat, happy attitude and demonstrated the utmost concern for my safety and comfort.

Dr. Medlock's knowledge and input helped me tremendously in deciding on the proper crowns for my teeth. Thanks to his desire for continuing education, a recent seminar he had attended provided him new-found information on using the Di Cor porcelain.

Not long after I had finished my extractions, Dr. Medlock returned from another seminar on mercury extraction where he discovered a substitute for the rubber dam. It is a combination drill and semi-rubber dam all in one.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank him again for the safe, successful mercury extraction that I experienced. He has also been helpful in providing me with some of the necessary names and techniques listed in this book, not to mention his critique of this subject for accuracy.

See the back of this book for the tooth chart, "The Teeth and the Body." This chart shows the relationship between each tooth and a corresponding body part. I thank the American Academy of Biological Dentistry for permission to print this chart.

Now, the last reference I am going to make in this topic occurred on December 16, 1990, on national television. Sixty Minutes, the popular television show, did an expose on mercury amalgams. I have the transcript of the show. Anyone can order it by calling Burrelle's Information Services at 1-800-777-TEXT, OR Journal Graphics 1-800-825-5746, or write to Journal Graphics, 1535 Grant Street, Denver Colorado 80203-1843. The television segment is entitled "Is There Poison in Your Mouth? To order it you must request it by date and segment title. I highly recommend that you order this transcript and read it. The contents are mind boggling. The following information is excerpted from the transcript with permission from CBS.

---- Copyright, CBS Inc., 1990. All Rights reserved. Originally broadcast in December, 1990, over the CBS Television network and affiliates ----

Morley Safer: "Is there poison in your mouth? The American Dental Association says there isn't, but some of its members say there is and have stopped using it. Mercury is more poisonous than lead or even arsenic.

Because its been around so long and because it was assumed that the mercury was made stable when mixed with other metals, amalgam fillings were never tested for safety - one of those remedies that the Food and Drug Administration automatically approved, but now a growing number of scientists, doctors and dentists are saying silver amalgams should be banned. Last summer, the EPA banned mercury from indoor latex paint because of mercury vapor. The vapor level in this patient's mouth after chewing for 10 minutes is 92 times higher than the mercury-vapor level in a newly painted room - three times higher than the U.S. Government allows in the work-place.

A number of medical schools are looking at the relationship between mercury vapor in the mouth and a whole variety of diseases. Alzheimer's, arthritis and colitis have all been linked to mercury poisoning. Mercury in the work-place has produced kidney damage, brain damage, birth defects and symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Up until seven years ago, the ADA said no vapor at all was released from fillings. The ADA is adamant that mercury in a patient's mouth is safe - so adamant that in 1986 - it changed its code of ethics. It became a violation of that code for any dentist to recommend the removal of amalgam because of mercury.

The Inclusion of the "Is There Poison In Your Mouth?" Television script does not imply endorsement of the author's editorial content therein.

By changing its code of ethics the ADA can now charge a dentist with fraud, get expert witnesses to testify against him, and revoke his license. Therefore any dentist that speaks out against mercury dental amalgams could lose his license and livelihood! And, it HAS BEEN DONE. Please read the 60 minute transcript to find out more.

I end this chapter on a note of sadness. It has been called to my attention that the panthers of the Everglades of Florida, an endangered species, are being killed by mercury poisoning. There are only a few dozen left in the Everglades and recently several have died. Panther No. 27, as the 4-year-old female was called, had a higher mercury level in its body than did victims of history's most notorious mercury poisonings, at an industrial town in Japan.

If mercury in the environment is this deadly, think about having a toxic waste dump in your very own mouth, spewing out vapors every second of every day that you live, and for that matter, long after you die.

I hope this chapter has helped to enlighten you, to open your eyes to the lies that are being fed to you concerning the SAFETY of mercury amalgams. It's your physical and mental health that are being destroyed. It's you that is being cheated out of the full enjoyment of life which can only come hand in hand with a healthy, robust body and mind. I made my decision, and I had all of my mercury amalgams removed in January of 1992.

For those of you with any doubt as to mercury's dangers, I would recommend that you read a book called "Beating Alzheimer's" by Tom Warren. It is listed in the back of this book under the section entitled, Recommended Books to Read. Tom Warren was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease and for six years he and his wife searched for answers to beat his INCURABLE disease. "Beating Alzheimer's" is his own true story, and in his book, Tom devotes an entire chapter to mercury fillings.

The November 11, 1988, issue of Dental and Health Facts News Letter, published by the Foundation For Toxic Free Dentistry, reports that a group of researchers at the University of Kentucky found increased mercury in Alzheimer's brain tissue.

The Stortebecker Foundation for Research, in Stockholm, Sweden, reports that the high concentrations of metallic mercury found post-mortem in the brain originate mainly from the mercury in dental amalgam fillings. However, far more dangerous are similarly released mercurial fumes, which settle in the mucous membranes of the upper region of the nasal cavity and are then transported directly to the brain. A silver filling is composed of five dissimilar metals: 50 percent pure elemental mercury, 35 percent silver, 13 percent tin, two percent copper, and a trace amount of zinc. When these dissimilar metals combine with saliva, a battery effect occurs. Studies indicate that an electrical current accelerates the release of hazardous mercury vapor.

A research paper entitled Dental "Silver" Tooth Fillings: A source of Mercury Exposure Revealed by Whole-Body Image Scan and Tissue Exposure and written by Leszek J. Hahn, et al, published on August 28, 1989, by the Departments of Radiology and Medical Physiology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It ended all speculation about the stability and dangers of mercury silver fillings by reporting what happened when radioactive mercury-silver fillings were placed in the teeth of adult sheep. Mercury appeared in high concentrations in the sheep's' kidneys, livers, jaw tissue, and gastrointestinal tracts. In each animal, it was found in lower concentrations in the frontal cortices, occipital cortices, thalami, cerebrospinal fluid, pituitary gland, thyroid and adrenal. It was found throughout their whole bodies - within twenty-nine days.

I have read, from knowledgeable sources, that many of the chemical imbalances found in people are created by reactions to toxic substances in the mouth. They include mercury, copper, nickel, beryllium, aluminum, molybdenum and other metals found in fillings, crowns, braces and removable bridges. Plastic fillings contain phenol, hydroquinone, formaldehyde, boron, strontium, urethane and toluene. These are just a few of the chemicals that people are exposed to from these fillings. Even "gold crowns" contain notable amounts of copper, palladium, silver, tin and zinc in the non-biological, or metallic forms which can react with our bodies. These metals and chemicals can combine with your hemoglobin where oxygen is supposed to travel resulting in the experience of chronic fatigue. They can combine with your hormones such that your blood test may look "normal" yet the hormones are not fully active due to contamination from some of these metals. They can attach to normal cells in your body and make them register abnormal, or "nonself" to your own immune system. When this happens, your white blood cells will start to destroy those "non-Self" cells thinking they are invaders. This creates what is called an autoimmune disease. Examples are Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Arthritis, Lou Gehrig's Disease and many others.

About the Author

Discover Wellness gives the reader the knowledge to identify things in their environment that may be the cause of present or future illnesses and empowers them to choose preventive techniques to stay healthy while telling them where to purchase any items necessary to accomplish prevention. 71 topics covered include obesity, alzheimers, cancer, electricity, mercury/silver dental fillings, plastics, microwaves, pesticides, chronic fatigue syndrome, endometriosis, MCS-multiple chemical sensitivities, allergies, immune system functioning, mental problems, etc. This information is not available elsewhere and empowers the reader to take the health of their body and mind into their hands. Knowledge is power. Fore more information please visit www.phyllismiracles.com