If a thermometer filled with elemental mercury breaks in a classroom in this state, the Maine DEP would be called in to advise on clean-up. There have been situations where schools have been closed and hazardous waste contractors have been called in to assist in proper mercury removal.
Those same students, who have been evacuated from their classroom, can go to their dentist after school and have the same elemental mercury placed in their mouth in the form of an amalgam filling!!!!!!!
Having an undergraduate degree in analytical chemistry with the understanding that mercury combined with four dissimilar metals sitting in saliva could not be stable, therefore always emitting mercury vapor, led to an informed choice in 1983 by a dentist from Maine to never again use mercury fillings in his practice.
Thousands of dentists across the U.S. and world also have made this choice, along with Norway, Sweden and Denmark, which have banned amalgam outright.
To this day, there has not been one situation where mercury amalgam has been used or needed in any dental procedure in these practices. To this day there is still no credible scientific data that proves amalgam’s safety.
Since the American Dental Association at last admits that mercury vapor leaks out continuously from amalgam fillings, and before we expose another child to mercury vapor, the burden of proof of safety must be placed on the ADA to show us the science.
In England I have written as much and a whole lot more in the years of my British anti-mercury campaign. This is now available to purchase electronically here on my site.
DO NOT underestimate the damage your dentist has done to your system by inserting black mercury fillings into your teeth.
My amalgams have been out thirteen years now and STILL the remnant mercury bubbles up into my jaw tissues especially in areas where there was once a large mercury filling. Mercury vapour migrates, so do miniscule drops of it into the jaw tissue too, and there it sits for years often called amalgam tatoos. ANY mercury in you is a heavy metal poison and needs removing under SAFE conditions--- it is so dangerous!
Why are they still using it then?? Dentists are not using it so much because of consumer demands for white ones. But they did use it because it was cheap and apparently strong BUT it is highly poisonous and remains secretly poisoning you until the day you die.
Another reason for its continued use especially now in the USA is because of litigation fears. IT would be bigger than tobacco!!
Angela Kilmartin |