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> Note from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:
> http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
>
> Once again, the Quackwatch / Snake-oil Vigilante Industry Mouths are
> proven to be wrong.
>
> A short while ago, I read Barrett's backup mouth, Fake SkepDoc,
> Harriet Hall on the Healthfraud List denying that the FDA had made any
> changes ... is there anything they won't lie about ? ? ? ?
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Harriet Hall
> Subject: [healthfraud] Mercury Amalgams Are Safe
>
> "Thanks to listmembers who alerted me to the recent announcements by
> the Consumers for Dental Choice and by the ADA in response to the
> lawsuit against the FDA. The Philadelphia Inquirer and my local paper
> both falselyreported that the FDA had changed its stance on mercury
> fillings."
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...gs-856582.html
>
> They're in millions of mouths worldwide, but have been linked to heart
> disease and Alzheimer's. Now a report concedes they may have a toxic
> effect on the body.
>
> By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
> Sunday, 29 June 2008
>
> Amalgam dental fillings - which contain the highly toxic metal mercury
> - pose a health risk, the world's top medical regulatory agency has
> conceded.
>
> After years of insisting the fillings are safe, the US government's
> Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a health warning about
> them. It represents a landmark victory for campaigners, who say the
> fillings are responsible for a range of ailments, including heart
> conditions and Alzheimer's disease.
>
> Earlier this month, in an unprecedented U-turn, the FDA dropped much
> of its reassuring language on the fillings from its website,
> substituting: "Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have
> neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and
> foetuses." It adds that when amalgam fillings are "placed in teeth or
> removed they release mercury vapour", and that the same thing happens
> when chewing.
>
> The FDA is now reviewing its rules and may end up restricting or
> banning the use of the metal.
>
> Mercury is placed in tens of millions of teeth worldwide each year.
> About 125 tons of it is used annually in dental treatments in the EU
> alone. And it was used in eight million fillings (including one
> million in children and young people) in Britain in 2002-03, the last
> year for which the British Dental Association (BDA) can produce
> figures.
>
> The association continues to insist that amalgam is "safe, durable and
> cost-effective" and "does not pose a risk of systemic disease", though
> it advises pregnant women to avoid "any dental intervention or
> medication". However, Norway and Denmark banned mercury from fillings
> earlier this year. Sweden has cut its use by more than 90 per cent
> over the past decade, and mercury use is also heavily restricted in
> Finland and Japan.
>
> Mercury makes up about half of an amalgam filling, where it is mixed
> with silver and small amounts of copper and tin. The combination -
> which has now been used for some 150 years - is extremely durable, and
> its supporters used to stress that it locked in the mercury. They now
> accept, however, that mercury vapour escapes, is breathed in, and gets
> into the bloodstream and organs, but they also stress that levels are
> very low. Opponents argue that the metal accumulates in the body and
> no safe level is known.
>
> Some research suggests that mercury from dental fillings may be linked
> to high blood pressure, infertility, fatigue, disorders of the central
> nervous system, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. Dentists
> have been found to have high levels of mercury in their bodies as well
> being more susceptible to brain tumours and problems with
> concentration and manual dexterity.
>
> However, a study that followed 507 Portuguese and American children
> for seven years after they received amalgam or mercury-free fillings
> found no differences in the rates of neurological symptoms between the
> two groups.
>
> Nevertheless, more and more dentists - now some 500 in Britain - are
> setting up mercury-free practices, and more patients are demanding
> alternative fillings made of resin and glass.
>
> The alternatives are more expensive and not as strong as amalgam,
> which leads the defenders of mercury to say that only mercury will do
> for molars, which carry most of the burden of chewing. And some have
> released another toxic material, the gender-bending chemical bisphenol
> A. But the alternatives are getting stronger, and the chemical is
> being used less in the newer products.
>
> Even the BDA now says that the alternatives "have improved over time",
> adding: "Trends towards greater use of these materials imply that
> there is to be a sustained reduction in the use of dental amalgam."
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Thank you, IIena.
Not a single one of the *gang* on any of the groups listed above have had
the integrity to give me an
apology for the many lies they told, and made fun of me. They also owe
apologies to Dr Boyd Haley,
Dan Burton, Clinton and other posters who posted the *truth*.
Jan
He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
-Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin.
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