Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!wws From: wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Amalgam (silver) Dental Fillings are a Serious Health Hazard Message-ID: <2163@ukma.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 21:05:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2163 Posted: Mon Sep 9 21:05:03 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Sep-85 21:22:13 EDT Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 48 Keywords: CBS News Special Report 9/9/85, brief history of "controversy". The CBS Evening News, September 9, 1985, had a special report about the present "controversy" about the dangers of silver amalgam fillings in teeth. This is only a controversy for those who have not done their homework. In this regard it is much like the "sugar", "stress", "Electromagnetic Smog", "Holistic Medicine", etc., controversies. The average person with 6 amalgam fillings has more mercury vapor in their mouth than is legal exposure in factories. When they chew, the concentration increases several times more. I have had dozens of patients who had been chronically ill for many years, been to many different doctors and clinics to no avail, who have suddenly got well upon replacement of their amalgam fillings with modern ceramic material. The American Dental Association has stubbornly insisted that there could not possibly be any danger from these fillings until a good and close friend of mine ( a lawyer here in Lexington) threatened to sue them if they continued making those kind of statements unless they could produce studies that demonstrated the safety of amalgams. Their last gasp statement, just before the above threat was made, was made as an official statement in their national journal. It stated that without question amalgams were safe and that any dentist that suggested otherwise should be severely censured. In the same article the point was made that amalgam material was so toxic that there was no safe way to store it in the dental office. There was no safe way to handle it and no safe way to dispose of it. IN OTHER WORDS, THE ONLY SAFE PLACE FOR AMALGAM IS IN THE PATIENT'S MOUTH! After my lawyer friend's letter to the ADA the official recommendation announced this spring, by the president of the ADA, was that amalgams are no longer the filling material of choice. For the past few years there have been stronger, and much safer, materials available. It takes some extra training, and it takes a little longer to put them in so the dentist income goes down a little. The only amalgam work done from this day forth should be taking amalgam out of the mouth, not putting it in. Anyone wishing more information should contact the American Holistic Dental Association whose address could be obtained from the American Holistic Medical Association in Annandale, Virginia--just outside Washington, DC. cbosgd!ukma!wws(Walt Stoll) -- Walt Stoll, MD, ABFP Founder, & Medical Director Holistic Medical Centre 1412 N. Broadway Lexington, Kentucky 40505