i've been suffering from a hwhole host of problems for 9 years, particularly constant spaced out dizzy brain fog and depression which i always put down to drug use. i've had tons of medical tests and nothing showed.. i have 5 of these fillings and i think they could be to blame. i dont have much money but i want to look into getting them removed safely. could someone please advise me how to go about it or where to even start asking. im guessing my NHS dentist will be useless, any help please?
@dazzlet666 Yes NHS is useless and even can be dangerous if you've already passed the threshold for mercury impairment. Look into finding a dentist who has been trained and will follow the procedures spelled out by the IAOMT on the web page. You can download the information there from featured articles titled Safe Removal of Amalgam Fillings.
Try to minimize chewing and after chewing or something hot keep hard boiled eggs and eat a yoke as that temporarily stops the smoke + Selenium
@davidkennedydds Thanks for the advice. my only problem is due to my health problems i am unemployed so cannot afford expensive amalgam removal. do you have any idea how much it would cost for the safe removal and replacement with safer material? also how much would detoxing cost? just a rough idea would be great. i live near newcastle upon tyne and have found one possible dentist although there's no mention of amalgam removal on their website.
@dazzlet666 Cost varies so much that an internet estimate is useless because it depends on how big the fillings are and what you fix them with. Detoxing is problematic because there are no effective chelation drugs. Yes I know about BAL, DMPS, DMSA byt mercury victims have died despite these weak drugs. N1, N3-bis (2-mercaptoethyl)-isothalamide is fantastic but sadly not available even for humanitarian use. It will save a rat poisoned to death in 10 minutes. Best seek medical advice.
@davidkennedydds oh ok thanks again. i've been looking into various things and could you advise me if i'm making the right assumptions. i have been eating canned tuna often so would reducing this or eliminating it totally reduce the effects of mercury intoxication? also you mentioned selenium. would eating foods rich in selenium help control the mercury? what effect would it have? i was thinking about eating alot of brazil nuts and hazelnuts, would this be a good idea?
@dazzlet666 Personally I avoid all fish but tuna is among the worst as far as mercury is concerned. I'd strongly recommend you find another source of protein that is not contaminated with mercury. Even farm raised fish have serious levels.
As far as selenium goes I prefer taking a small 200 µg capsule (Twin Labs). This provides me with a measured dose and since plants do not need selenium and we do you have much better control over dose. Too much selenium is bad 4 U too.
Hi Dave, I have seen 2 different dentists about getting mine removed, the first one quoted me $1700 and the second one was $4900.
The difference is the first one was going to use all in office composite fillings and the second was going to use lab made inlays and 3/4 crowns. Cost vs longevity what would you recommend?
I want mine removed. I can't imagine how much smarter I could have been if I didn't have a filling on almost every tooth. Mercury lowers your IQ. Most of them were done in the last 6 years. I distinctly remember having a much sharper mind before the fillings. Now I feel like I'm in a fog all the time...
@z31man I totally agree on the brain damage to mercury connection. That's the bad news. It has been well known for 20 centuries and only the dentists continue to deny it. Why? Because the impressionable dental students are taught in ADA accredited schools that the kind of mercury they use is the "safe" kind which is total horseshit.
The good news is that in my 30+ years of experience the two most often reported changes after safe-mercury removal were more energy and less or no brain fog
@davidkennedydds Hi, i live in Montana and i am curious on what kind of dentist/doctor would i have to see in order to get my silver almagams SAFELY removed? I have an apointment in 4 days with the regular dentist, but I doubt they know what they are doing. I want these fog/memory/cfs symptoms to just go away already!! please reply.
@MrMrkeys Go to the IAOMT web site and select one of the dentists there who has learned how to safely remove a mercury filling. I am serious. This is not something you want to do casually. Do it carefully.
@davidkennedydds Pain i suppose.. and even more exposure when done wrong.. I don't live in the US and the Removal clinics here in Denmark are not that many.. Also i am in the dilemma of knowing this now, and not being able to afford it right away..
Pain is simple to control while fear is not. There are some very good IAOMT dentists in Denmark and throughout the Northern Europe area.
Protection is vital but easy. The IAOMT teaches this so find a dentist who has taken the necessary training.
I read once that in comparing various methods of treating fear using a variety of drugs that alcohol came out superior to all the other chemicals but please do not drive yourself
Find a good painless dentist who stops if your not happy
@Schoening91 That depends on so many factors it is impossible for me to make that decision. If I were you I'd put it on my "to do" list and when you can move away from all toxic materials especially ones implanted in your teeth. Obviously the sooner you become mercury free in a safe and reasonable fashion the sooner your body can begin to unload the enormous body burden these toxic mercury fillings so dramatically contribute to. Safe Removal is the key to lowering your daily dose.
@erwcat No you're not going to die today but you will certainly still have some excess mercury in your brain from this stupidity the day you die.
It is insane for dentists to be allowed to willy nilly expose the entire population to enormous amounts of mercury and take no precautions for themselves, their staff or their patients. If you want to see what this does to their workers go watch "Got Mercury".
They can do this because OSHA and the various regulators simply do NOTHING.
@erwcat nothing will happen to you, don't listen to Davidkennedydds, he's just another dentist that wants to make money. He will probably make you pay 10 times more in order to remove something that has been used for over 100 years now and is proven to be safe.
@kosm001 So what ever gave you the idea that I would charge you anything? Oh I see, that is what you do and so you think I do too. Well I don't so go find some other way to refute the well established facts that:
1. People and fetuses are grossly exposed to mercury from amalgams.
2. Dental Personnel are injured
3. A whole host of chronic neurodegenerative diseases in the amalgam bearing population that are less frequent in non-mercury-filling population
@kosm001 I see you would prefer to rely upon the ADA's out of date claims and whose members profit from denial.
You should pay better attention to science because you would have known that the highly unethical prospective studies of children cited by the ADA have firmly established:
1. Disproportionate harm to males by mercury
2. Abnormal urinary coproporphyrinogens (caused by Hg)
3. The ADA controlled FDA has repeatedly lost their claim of safety (White Paper)
I would also ask you to go back and review the Smoking Tooth video. In there I show you the relevant peer reviewed publications from my library that were funded by the IAOMT as we believe in science.
In addition, please go to the IAOMT web page and download the "Case Against Amalgam" as well as our successful Request to Reconsider the FDA's White Paper you would be much better informed and see that sometimes random guys on the interned actually have some knowledge you don't.
@davidkennedydds you want me to believe youtube videos? No sir, I need some evidence.Watching some smoke coming out of a so called tooth is not evidence. It's just a picture and nothing else. I gave you statistics and research programs that have been completed by ADA and you are not accepting it. OK then why should I believe you? You guys are claiming that since mercury is bad, then so are amalgams. I'm sorry but medicine doesn't work like that.
@kosm001 Correction: "Since mercury is bad, then so are amalgams. I'm sorry but medicine doesn't work like that."
Actually this is where we started back in 1984. Since we agree mercury (Hg) is bad then in order for amalgams to be bad three conditions would need to be met:
1. >Hg exposure from amalgams
2. Increased Hg intake
3. Increased body burden
All three conditions were firmly satisfied by 1984.
Then the argument moved to Proof of Causation also know as the Cigarette Defense
and you want me to pay like 20$ in order to see the whole DVD. Sounds interesting. I can have free evidence from internationally recognized companies, and I have to pay in order to see a video that claims to have evidence against amalgam.
It doesn't make any sense. If you have something to show to the world, then go ahead and do it. By saying "ok guys, here's the evidence, but you have to pay for it" is just plain wrong.
@kosm001 Confused again: I sent you to download (for free) two detailed analysis of the mercury issue. Both of these contained our successful refutation of the 2006 FDA White Paper and the 2009 declaration of safety. In both instances the expert panels agreed that the FDA's White Paper was not accurate. In fact we pointed out 27 factual errors.
Since you are confident in the "free evidence from internationally recognized companies" then I recommend you read the MSDS you recieved.
@kosm001 Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is contained in every shipment of mercury/silver fillings and therefore known to every dentist. In part after the skull and crossbones showing mercury is a deadly poison the manufacturer goes on to list their restrictions for use which are being violated daily:
1) Not for use in children under age (6) FDA Panel questioned that age as too low
2) Not recommended in pregnancy ever
3) Not in the presence of other metals (like braces and crowns)
@kosm001 You firm assurances ring hollow for K.J and his mother. K.J.'s kidneys were destroyed by an ignorant dentist who did nothing to protect him during placement. This young boy is awaiting a kidney transplant thanks to fools in the dental profession willing to stake their reputations and others lives on a 150 year old myth.
No amount of mercury is safe. Some people react to minute quantities and thus the material needs to be banned.
@kosm001 Those damned environmentalists always trying to keep heavy metals out of the air, water, mouth. We should just sit back and do nothing and wait and see if any harm comes of this.
Oh wait. That is what we've done for the last 150 years and today one out of 6 babies are born with excessive mercury in their cord blood. 1 out of 10 will die with Alzheimer's disease so surely you would recommend we continue on the present course right?
Go to the IAOMT web page and download the "Case Against Amalgam" as well as our successful 2009 Request to Reconsider the FDA's White Paper you would be much better informed. It is FREE to all.
This country is fucked how dare America charge 500$ per filling and not have the courtesy to tell people that mercury a toxic chemical is being put I'n your mouth, or advise people about the other options such as resin,now there's a business of dentists removing the mercury and I bet it costs even more for the tideous operation.This is the most cynical/ immoral thing I ever heard, and its all because of money and greed.
@dothisdothat321 What you say is true but the problem is much deeper than mere greed and stupidity. The schools TEACH these dentist that mercury is proven safe. The VIOLATE all the OSHA rules in order to have students mix, pack, carve and polish mercury/silver fillings thus exposing the student to enormous amounts of mercury. Is it any wonder that numerous studies have found dentists impaired?
If the occupational safety laws were enforced this awful material would immediately disappear.
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@dothisdothat321 Actually the way these toxic plugs are sold is they are cheaper than non-toxic ones. The biggest purchaser of mercury fillings is the US Government. They are used on the Native American reservation to fill cavities, in all branches of the military and coast guard, for welfare and thus tons (Yes tons) of mercury are being implanted every year in hundreds of thousands of peoples teeth. The problems this causes are enormous.
@dothisdothat321 Too fucking true, pretty much the same story with everything on this fucking planet. Time to hold accountable some of these power hungry, greedy, corrupt politicians me thinks. It's those fuckers who are in the pockets of the corrupt corporations, receiving copious amounts of cash on the side to pass bills and laws that favour the corporations.
@SubliminalStatic I think the short answer for dentist is ignorance easy cheap and poor training.
The longer answer is not very pretty and includes deception by manufacters & trade associations and willingness government regulatory bodies to arrive at predetermined conclusions ie mercury in fillings OK. They actively thwart research that links mercury to neurological diseases. I recall when the research team in Kentucky discovered high levels of mercury in Alzheimer's brain NIMH cut funding.
origins of the word mercury are both interesting and provocative. Mercury was the God of Commerce in the Roman Empire and meant fabrication, trickery, thieving and slight of-hand.)
toxicmercuryamalgam com / autoimmune-disease-mercury
Amalgam fillings are highly poisonous! I just recently watched a trailer of a documentary that it seems is coming up soon, is called "MERCURY UNDERCOVER", it's actually here on youtube. Just type mercury undercover trailer
Snapp's 1989 study stated: "Total exposure due to the grinding out of the amalgams was estimated to be 1.7 ng Hg/mL for eight subjects." There is no indication that any protection was used other than a rubber dam (in some cases). Question: have any studies been done to estimate the total exposure due to removal in patients that are protected with the most conservative protocols as in the video? In other words, by what amount does safe removal reduce the blood spike? Thanks.
@2112618 I am aware of ZERO studies where the patient was well protected following the IAOMT protections but I am aware of a radioactive mercury filling removal by extraction. In that case there was again a spike in urine mercury. So if applying a forceps to a tooth with an amalgam for 12 weeks makes mercury spew from the urine there is probably no way to get the exposure to zero so the best we can do is something better than before but not perfect once you've been implanted with a toxic metal.
@2112618 How many ML are there in an average person's blood? I'd guess about 8000 I think so 1.7 X 8000 = 13600 ng which is a pretty significant amount and well over the EPA's MRL. The reason I sent Snapp is he did a much better job of protection than Molin did in her first study in 1990. In that study the blood level spiked and after a year had only dropped to 50% below baseline. Snapp got a 90% drop in 7 months. Guess which dentist used a rubber dam effectively?
I am having problems finding a IAOMT dentist that uses BOTH positive pressure nasal hood AND Supplemental vacuum held at the patients chin (as in the video). Most appear to now be using a room filter 24/7 but no supplemental vacuum to pull the vapor away from the patient's face. Others use only a nasal cannula. I want the full treatment. Which doctor is in this video? I want this exact protocol in the video and am willing to travel. Thanks.
Look for an Accredited member of the IAOMT. Nasal cannula is not approved as it allows air to be drawn in around the tube. We've approved both passive and positive pressure but I personally think positive pressure is better. As for the big vacuum on the chest during procedures that is optional with the protocols as is the room filter.
If the mercury gets over to the room filter it has to go by your nose first so I don't really see the purpose unless to protect the office/waiting room.
A few dentists on the net are claiming that research shows that after 15 to 25 years 100% of the mercury has evaporated from a filling. They do this to further support the proposition that this mercury is released as vapor and absorbed via the lungs. I don't dispute the proposition they seek to support but I wonder what you think of the notion that after 25 years all of the mercury is gone?
I've not seen any research that would support the 100% figure but I have seen many studies that found more than 25% and that amount is huge. Average filling has 750,000µg of Hg. EPA MRL daily dose is 10 so one filling alone could give you the maximum daily dose for 51 years.
If you put an aged amalgam inwater and measure the amount of mercury that comes off in 24 hours it varies depending on brand and operator and from batch to batch from 10 to 100.
Au contraire, it is the implanting if time-release mercury fillings while deceptively calling them silver or amalgam that is already against the law and at the same time violating every nations occupational health and safety laws by not providing your employees any informed consent, engineering controls and protective equipment.
Those are the criminals that will one day soon be brought to justice and hopefully punished severely both economically and criminally.
Thanks for this vid. The IAOMT protocol states: "A nasal cannula that admits ambient air won't help because the patient can breath the mercury contaminated air around the tiny cannula tubing"
Question: Why are so many "amalgam safe" dentists using nasal cannula tubing and not a full nose hood with positive pressure?
The short answer is they use inappropriate methods because of the deplorable instruction they received at their ADA accredited dental school and the paucity of enforcement by OSHA.
Every dentist in the world removes amalgam. Sadly most do the patient a disservice by exposing them to enormous amounts of mercury.
The solution is to INSIST that your dentist at the very least be accredited in "Safer Amalgam Removal" by the IAOMT who accredit by peer review methods.
Thank you for the response. Do you know of any lawyers in Seattle, Washington, who can help me in filing a case. Please if you can let me know or guide me towards someone who has gone to court on this issue. Thank you for your time.
@206Revolution Unfortunately I don't know anyone familiar with this kind of litigation in Seattle. A relevant case was Tolhurst vs. ADA in 1990's. He lost but there were significant rulings that may be of help. The ADA successfully claimed that they owe no duty of care to the public and do not guarantee the safety of anything or materials dentists use.
That falls under the rule of the F&DA. You may wish to go watch the latest YouTube videos of the testimony of mercury victims last December.
@davidkennedydds I'm about to commit suicide, I had amalgams taken out incorrectly and now I am feeling the effects. They did alot of things carelessly and to top it off they put in a material that I think may be toxic called DiamondLite, I don't know what to do other than to give up on life and kill myself.
@tfrenn Personally I like DiamondLite as a filling material as it contains no Bis-GMA and was one I used quite a bit when I still practiced restorative dentistry. Depression and thoughts of suicide are quite common when amalgams are removed incorrectly as you can be exposed to a bolus dose of mercury. The important thing to remember is that you will get better as the body removes the mercury so do things that help you detox and especially don't kill yourself and do call the suicide hot line now.
@davidkennedydds Hi I ended up going threw some quack dentist who claimed to be holistic, and he she removed my 2 of my amalgams and I know that proper precautions were not taken and I was ended up being exposed to mercury, then they replaced it with some crap called DaimondLite which is propably toxic too, is there anything that you can replace amalgams with that aren't toxic, what about Gold Fillings, they seem safer than those composites made out of BPA
@tfrenn Diamond lite does not contain BPA so that is not a worry.
Gold is a metal that sucks mercury out of amalgam fillings. I'd use it only after you've been free of mercury for a while.
What I like better than gold is to do the larger fillings indirectly in the lab. You can take an impression, make a model, fill the void, bake and strengthen the filling then go back and bond this hardened filling in the tooth. The filling is almost inert and wears slower than tooth but looks great too.
You have by far the largest source of exposure to mercury implanted in a time-release mercury/silver filling. These toxic plugs also contribute substantially to the environmental load in sewage rivers streams and even drinking water. Time has come to ban all uses if mercury in medicine (thimerosal) and dentistry.
First off I want to thank you for your hard work on making the public aware of this toxic materiel. Dr. Kennedy if a dentist with out my permission put amalgam fillings in my mouth and told me it was a silver filling and never made me aware of the mercury content in it. Can I take them to court for this and have them pay for all cost to safely remove it in a facility where they have the safety protocol procedure? Please I would like to know if that is possible?
@206Revolution Yes you can on several counts and I'd ask for a lot more than the cost of removing the material. Jim Love is an attorney in Tulsa OK who has extensive experience in mercury litigation. He tells me that you lacked meaningful informed consent, received a large dose or mercury,were intentionally deceived by the dentist refusal to disclose the mercury release and your tooth was mutilated so that it cannot be simply filled but now needs a much stronger and larger restoration
Dr. Kennedy, I noticed that you made several comments that as an employer you "will be sued" for not protecting staff in the manner suggested based on OSHA protocols. Knowing that the United States is the most litigious nation in the world, how many cases are you aware of here where a staff member has successfully sued a dentist for mercury exposure incurred during unsafe amalgam removal? It sounds like a common problem, but I am unaware of any such cases.
@kj2177 I think my point focused more on the employers obligation to comply with existing occupational safety laws and there are actually quite a few cases against employers from injured staff. I recall a case of a young dentist who gave birth to a severely affected child. The diagnosis was acrodynia. She demanded to know how it was possible that her infant could be mercury poisoned. The doctor said, "Well you are a dentist aren't you?" She said so what and discovered why she her fetus injured.
@kj2177 The dentist exclaimed how could that be? She'd been taught as I was that the mercury is locked into the filling and not released and any transient release during placement and removal was insignificant. We all know this was and is not true and the laws must be followed.
She sued Loyola and reached an out of court settlement. Same applies to many damaged dental assistants if the figure out what harmed the baby. Dentists ignore the OSHA laws at their own peril.
@kj2177 There are several videos on my channel that are applicable to this issue. Karen Palmer in "Got Mercury" explains how she was injured on the job. I've got a new 30 mini documentary that plays on my public access program with Karen Palmer and Karen Burns another mercury poisoned dental assistant that goes into some detail on how their lives were destroyed by their occupational employment in dentistry. "Poison in Yoru dentist's Office" is a thrashing the CDA got from the Cal-OSHA board.
@rsfff The grace of good fortune shined upon you. You should be happy.
Some people who are APOe 4/4 are unable to excrete mercury from brain. The kind of mercury that comes off amalgam fillings is uncharged Hg0 and amalgam particulates. The Hg0 readily crosses the blood brain barrier. Once inside it is converted by enzyme catalase to Hg+ and Hg++ or Hg2 in the vernacular of the F&DA. Once charged it cannot exit the brain and has to be transported out. The APOe 2 and 3 can do this but not 4s.
I think this ruined my life. I had a filling when I was about 11. After that I've had high anxiety, depression and nerve problems. I am really pissed at that arogant asshole who put it in my mouth. I remember he filled an extra tooth on the spot without telling my mom until it was done. Apparently that child dentist didn't give a shit about children.
Sorry to hear about another victim of a totally preventable tragedy. Unfortunately every year an additional 50 TONS of mercury are either stuffed in teeth or dumped down the sewer drains to contaminate soil, water and our entire environment.
Dentists will not willingly stop using mercury any more than BP will stop drilling for oil.
You have to make them stop by fighting with the rich and powerful.
This is all too common a problem and until the citizens rise up and take the responsible parties to task they will continue to implant time release mercury fillings in children and adult teeth while deceptively calling them silver.
One dentist tried to claim they are called 'silver' just because of color.
I pointed out that if you sold me a beautiful ring and told me it was gold when in fact it was only "gold" colored I am certain the jury would find you were a thief.
While the dentists a few years ago could have pleaded ignorance that is no longer possible because of the IAOMT. With the help of hundreds of dedicated members and research scientists we've proven mercury exits fillings. The FDA is suppose to be protecting you but instead chose to protect a 200 year old material. We caught them and again blasted them with science. Hopefully future generations will not suffer as you did.
@NarisTorquere the fillings only release toxic fumes if the dentist doesnt know what he/ she is doing ive had an amalgam in me mouth for years and its still good but may need to get it redone at some point my dad has loads in his mouth all are amalgams... and i can safely say non of us are dead yet lol i really wouldnt worry too much bout it
If death is your endpoint then you are correct that no one I know has died immediately after receiving a mercury leaking filling. On the other hand KJ is awaiting a kidney transplant and the physician in Safer Amalgam Removal would have died of Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy of he hadn't received a heart transplant.
IDCM heart has 22,000 more mercury than someone who died of a heart attack for example.
All "silver" fillings tested to date leak substantial amounts of mercury.
@davidkennedydds yeh just got it reffitted a few days ago and still completely healthy.. besides ive worked with my dentist before and shes told me everything there is to know... amalgam fillings are completely safe and only leak mercury if not fitted correctly .. everyone needs to stop worrying
What you've experienced is negligent misrepresentation which has long been the sole basis of amalgam usage.
At the FDA hearings in December 2010 using the minimum estimate of mercury released (FDA's) and the highest estimate of the Minimum Risk Level (EPA's) Dr. Richardson using the US data found that 63,000,000 Americans are exposed to mercury above the MRL.
It is impossible to deny the data.
Ask you dentist what your daily dose is in micrograms per kg and see what she says.
Focus not and get one thing very clear___ this video is about removing mercury from teeth and not exposing everyone to enormous amounts of mercury. It is not about how long other materials last or how much money amalgam packing mills make compared to individual dentists who conscientiously take as much time and spend as much money necessary on training and equipment to do their job safely.
This video is about safer mercury disposal as opposed to careless.
I know you think that you don't have to because you are ignorant of OSHA but it is the LAW.
You failed to learn about your obligations as an employer in dental school because the school is equally obligated and it too is breaking the OSHA law. Interestingly some of the universities have a zero mercury policy in student areas and the environmental disaster of the dental school is beginning to show.
Good luck with your explanation to the jury when you employees sue you for cause.
76% of the general public when asked did not even KNOW there was mercury in a so called "Silver" filling. This is a long deception by the dental profession for economic gain because many people would not have mercury implanted if they knew it was in the fillings. So many in fact that the majority of dentists polled by the Wealth Dentist use NO amalgam at all inn their practices.
BTW more men were mercury-free than women dentist.
Sure you can but pretty soon you end up looking like Gabby Hayes. Teeth serve a useful purpose for starting the digestion of food and smiling when you see someone you love so don't be too cavalier with their preservation. If the tooth has a mercury filling then remove it safely. If it does not then refuse when some quack dentist tries to deceive you and claim he/she is installing a "Silver" filling. It is mercury so just say NO and go find a more informed dentist.
If some dentist tells you that placing a mercury-leaking filling in your tooth is safe you are talking with a fool.
If a dentist intends to take your old mercury/silver fillings out for any reason (broken tooth, decay, even to place a crown . . . any reason) then you should insist that the standard precautions shown in this video are followed.
If they refuse then report them to the OSHA board, encourage their staff to file a complaint as well and go find a new dentist who follows the law.
@davidkennedydds Maybe also encourage them to find a dentist who's short of cash. Help them make the payments on the BMW by paying them big money to drill out perfectly good fillings. Of course, we all know that, despite any precautions taken, mercury exposure during amalgam removal far exceeds that of just keeping the filling where it is. But hey, the space suit looks real high tech, so it must be effective, right?
Now that I've furnished you with several peer reviewed and published studies indicating harm
1. hearing loss
2. cleft lip
3. Perio
4. Autism
silence?
The video is only about safer removal. Whether or not a person chooses to keep or remove old mercury fillings is their choice and certainly not yours. If you do not comply with the OSHA laws I can guarantee you will be paying your staff big dollars for your negligence.
Removal will occur even after mercury fillings r banned.
@davidkennedydds To imply that anything in this video is "standard" is a lie even greater than most of your others. The community based standards of care require none of this nonsense and with good reason. The "IAOMT" is a trade organization, nothing more, dedicated to misleading gullible and desperate people into thinking their amalgams are making them sick. That's your business model. Deal with it.
@rubinsteindds Are you really that impaired or are you just a fool? I said laws as in legislation enacted to protect employees who disregard their employees health. OSHA states that, "When it is reasonable to assume exposure is likely [to mercury] the employer (that's you) shall: 1. Give informed consent 2. Institute work practices 3. Use engineering controls 4. Provide protective equipment 5. Monitor the facility 6. Record results 7. Keep records of above for 30 years No record? Your guilty!
@davidkennedydds THAT is what you anti-amalgam quacks are calling research? A survey of 39 people? There were more people than that on the bus I took to work this morning! That "study" didn't control for any other sources of hearing loss, like for example, the sound of a high speed dental drill 2 inches from your ear. What a joke. If that's your idea of research, it isn't even up to the standards of the typical quack. Please reference a quack study that is better constructed. Thanks.
You said published in a peer reviewed journal and that is exactly what I sent. Your criticism is not valid as you apparently haven't read the research. She actually did control for other potential sources of hearing loss. The dental drill was not found to produce a significant decrement in hearing.
In addition by selecting only women in a very narrow age bracket 39 gives her the power to calculate statistical significance and she found hearing loss in a dose dependent fashion.
@davidkennedydds 39 people is weak. You can say my criticism isn't "valid" all you want. Doesn't make it so, although it is probably good enough for the poor suckers who's teeth you're destroying by removing perfectly good restorations for no reason. Numerous confounding variables were totally ignored in this "research"
I suggest you re-read the full study, not the excerpts you seem accustomed to working from. An open mind might help, though in your case it might be a bit too late for that.
@rubinsteindds JK Kern, et al., Toxicity Biomarkers in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Blinded Study of Urinary Porphyrins “Accepted Pediatrics International Article”; doi: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2010.03196.x
Conclusion: These results suggest that the levels of Hg-toxicity-associated porphyrins are higher
in children with an ASD diagnosis than controls. Although the pattern seen (increased 5cxP,
prcP, and cP) is characteristic of Hg toxicity, the influence of other factors of genetics and other metals
Do you warn your patients that placement of Amalgam Fillings During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Cleft Palate? Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - Elsevier Global Medical News By Susan London
SEATTLE (EGMN) – Lisa A. DeRoo, Ph.D reported In a case-control study involving 1,336 infants born in Norway that women who have amalgam dental fillings placed during the first trimester of pregnancy are much more likely to give birth to infants with isolated cleft palate.
@SEIDOKAN02 If you google the title "Amalgam Fillings During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Cleft Palate? Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - Elsevier Global Medical News By Susan London" You will find the article based upon her report of findings. She said she won't published the final results in the literature until it has been repeated. Study done in Norway.
DeRoos points out that they are 5 out of 5 in the smaller study for women dosed with mercury from amalgams placed during early pregnancy. “I want to point out, though, that all five women who reported having
placements in both months 1 and 2 had infants with cleft palate,” Dr. DeRoo
noted. “Four of them had infants with cleft palate only, and one of them had an
@SEIDOKAN02 There are many papers linking amalgam to gum disease. Holmes showed the more amalgam in mom the more in baby's hair unless baby has autism in which case there is almost none in hair. baby is not able to excrete.
Several by Siblerud, R.L., The Relationship between Mercury from Dental Amalgam and Mental Health, American Journal of Psychotherapy, v.XLIII, no.4:575-587 October 1989
We just made FDA send their proclamation of safety back to the fools.
Rothwell J. A., Boyd P. J., Amalgam dental fillings and hearing loss International Journal of Audiology 2008; 47:770 776
The results suggest an association between more amalgam fillings and poorer thresholds at higher frequencies, which could contribute to presbyacusis in developed countries. This provides further argument for the use of amalgams to be phased out where suitable alternatives exist.
You should go read the Petition to FDA for Reconsideration on the IAOMT's web site. We had many many peer reviewed references but the fundamental issue is dose of mercury. There too we prevailed using their estimate of daily dose and the EPA's reference dose for minimum risk. 63 Million Americans are exposed above the MRL using the most conservative estimates of exposure and a very high MRL.
That is not even considering environmental contamination and occupational injury.
Why would you protect just the birds and the bees when by far the predominant source of human exposure to mercury is from the use of amalgam fillings?
One of many autopsy studies Guzzi, Gianpaolo DDS et al. Dental Amalgam and Mercury Levels in Autopsy Tissues: Food for Thought. American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. 27(1):42-45, March 2006.
We now have published peer reviewed proof of causation in a highly unethical mercury exposure experiment in orphans. The poor children who were sensitive to mercury began to excrete in a dose dependent fashion a coproporphyrin.
David presented this at the FDA hearing.
Biometals. 2010 Nov 5. [Epub]
Geier DA, et al. A significant relationship between mercury exposure from dental amalgams and urinary porphyrins: a further assessment of the Casa Pia children's dental amalgam trial.
@davidkennedydds I have access to most medical and dental journals, but have no access to the journal of audiology or Biometals, so I would be grateful if you could forward them to me or upload them to scribd where I will read them.
Since you seem to be unfamiliar with the current literature I suspect that you are equally unfamiliar with older research as well. The liars keep claiming without any basis that there is no peer reviewed research that has ever found a significant relationship between mercury/silver fillings and any disorder.
Some researchers now believe that mercury is the single largest cause of disease in the world today. The single largest source of mercury in humans in from dental amalgam fillings.
The short list of diseases linked to mercury are:
Where does this guy practice...........removing amalgam fillings for the false claim that they are causing health problems is against the law. If dr kennedy has informed you that you need to have your dental fillings removed because of merccury then you can SUE him . He needs to be reported to his state board.
If any licensed dentist makes the claim to you that mercury is bound into the filling and not released you should file an ethical complaint with the licensing board. They won't do anything but then you take it to the next step and file a complaint against the licensing board with the Attorney General.
They are telling false statements and there are many laws that prohibit professionals from attempting to decieve the public.
Deception is why the call these mercury plugs silver.
Dentist Bozo lets focus here. . . you are blogging on a video about how amalgams can and should be removed safely in compliance with very long standing laws called OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety).
The fact that you did not recognize these legally mandated, simple, employee/patient protection steps indicates to me that you do not follow the law and I pity your employees and your patients. What kind of primitive education did you get that failed to teach you current law?
I practiced for over 30 years and not once did anyone ever sue me for anything. Can you say the same?
It is not against the law anywhere on the planet for a professional to tell the truth. It is against the law to lie and if you claim mercury/silver amalgam fillings are proven to be safe then you are telling big fat lies.
The Geiers found individuals in the Casa Pai study had a dose dependent abnormal porphyrin. That firmly established harm from amalgams. (FDA Hearings 2010)
@davidkennedydds You haven't been sued because the best con men always maintain the confidence of their victims, even after stealing their money.
No research (excepting bufoon-style research) has EVER shown that a population of people with amalgam fillings have ANY health outcomes different from an amalgam free population. Period. No matter. There are plenty of people who no nothing about science out there, who are willing to line your pockets while you destroy their teeth.
@rubinsteindds And buffoons like Rubinstein who when confronted with facts just lie through their teeth.
So now it is my turn to make a formal request for retraction. You say no research has found ANY health condition.
How about hearing?
Rothwell J. A., Boyd P. J., Amalgam dental fillings and hearing loss International Journal of Audiology 2008 found in 40-45 YO women more amalgam fillings = more hearing loss.
@davidkennedydds THAT is what you anti-amalgam quacks are calling research? A survey of 39 people? There were more people than that on the bus I took to work this morning! That "study" didn't control for any other sources of hearing loss, like for example, the sound of a high speed dental drill 2 inches from your ear. What a joke. If that's your idea of research, it isn't even up to the standards of the typical quack. Please reference a quack study that is better constructed. Thanks.
I thought when Hal Huggins lost his license people gave less credibility to these anti-amalgam buffoons.
A hundred years ago, snake oil salesmen had the answer for your every ailment. They had about an equal amount of "science" backing them up as this Bozo.
By the way. Table salt is sodium chloride. Shall we declare salt a toxic substance as well, because it contains Chlorine? Like Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does"
@rubinsteindds Talk about buffoon! To compare table salt to amalgam is not only in accurate but down right deceptive. If I put a pound of table salt in a skillet on high overnight I'd still have a pound of salt in the morning. If I put a pound of amalgam in that same skillet I'd kill everyone in the house. BTW this actually happened once.
Anyone who has had chemistry knows that covalent bonded salt is not a metallic mixture and it is unprofessional to make false statements to the public.
Did you recognize the snake oil salesman in the mirror last month when for the second time the IAOMT expert panel annihilated the ADA/AGD/FDA dentists on amalgam risk assessment.
Published peer reviewed risk assessment using only the most conservative estimates of mercury filling exposure estimated 63 Million Americans are exposed above the EPAs minimum risk level? Using a more accurate MRL the number jumps to 120 Million. 100% of those with 12 fillings are over the MRL.
When you can see in the mirror the tide marks on amalgam filled teeth and diseased grey-stained gum tissue of the socket, which pours blood with even gentle brushing. All my amalgams had decay underneath, being POROUS - and just crumbled away during (unsafe) removal.
The fault of the patient? Or perhaps this particular dentist hadn't properly administered this otherwise Safe And Cost Effective treatment "option" ?
OSHA is not generally considered a subject of peer review but rather is the result of regulations promulgated by elected bodies so it is not clear what bona fide scientist you wish to hear from. The OSHA TWA standard is based on a study of adult males (Fawer, R.F., et.al., Measurement of hand tremor induced by industrial exposure to metallic mercury, British J of ind Med 1983)
Exactly what then are your qualifications for this powerful position?
@davidkennedydds ....You are correct. I do NOT have qualifications to debate this "position" but then I might ask you the same question......"What are your qualifications"?
@davidkennedydds ...I would hope you would have far more legitimate peer reviewed literature than one that is 27 years old and does not appear to mention dental amalgam.
Again, i do not have the time or energy to debate zealots. Have not placed 5 amalgams in the last year but DO object to people like you and the ill-informed Barbara Boxer denying patients who cannot afford composites the use of a safe and cost effective way to restore teeth.
While many unions have advocated for members protections they do not have the legislative power to enact laws. Only elected legislatures have that power and the point is dentists are not following the laws because they cannot and stay under the MAC of 100.
The dental professions careless disregard of employee health was detailed in the Rowland 1994 Occup Enviro Med a case controlled study that found 40% decrease in fertility. There are may other studies but space does not allow.
Anecdotal is the only thing advocates for continued use of mercury rely upon, 150 years of use. During that 150 years how many new neurological diseases appeared like Parkinson's, Alzheimers, MS, ALS, autissm, acrodynia, autoimmunity.
And don't forget the hearing loss found by Rothwell J. A., Boyd P. J., Amalgam dental fillings and hearing loss International Journal of Audiology 2008; 47:770 776
Point #1 Everything shown in the video with respect to MSA masks, engineering controls and work practices is required by OSHA law.
Point #2. If mercury exposure is avoidable it should be avoided.
Point #3 ADA Spokesperson Rodway Makert claimed in the Wall Street Journal 2006 that amalgam removal can be dangerous. I happen to agree because exposure to mercury both during placement and removal is enormous.
@woosailor There are numerous studies that should have more than suggested that mercury can cause neurological disorders as well as other medical disorders. It would be logical to avoid anything with mercury in it rather than hope that all the studies that have not been peer-reviewed are quackery. (if you'd like, look up "Amalgam Risk Assessment with Coverage of References up to 2005")
Patients.....please recognize this alleged Dr Kennedy for what he is.....a very biased and inflammatory pitchman. Please do NOT rush out to replace any amalgams. He is NOT a scientist as he may claim to be but a modern day version of Chicken Little.
I have seen far too many patients frightened into spending money they do not have to line the pockets of dentists like him ( I am not proud that we are colleagues). "Perhaps" he means well and believes this stuff but I doubt it.
As you can see dentists continue with their PR approach to law and science. . . First denigrate the source, all of the peer reviewed scientific research and the employee protection laws OSHA. Next tell an anecdotal story like patients frightened, then make unfounded claims of safety.
The fact remains that no one can legally open the amalgam mixing capsule without the protections shown in this video. No protections? Then they are breaking the law and harming you and their staff.
As you will no doubt have noted the IAOMT logo is all over this video and in fact you can find the same video on the IAOMT's web page. So it is not merely my opinion I am showing but the consensus of the membership and the scientific advisory board (SAB) of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.
We have some of the best scientists on mercury toxicology on our SAB and not one sentence of the program has ever been refuted.
If I can't legally open the amalgam mixing capsule, why is it for sale? Our government is so unbelievably restrictive when it comes to stuff like this and they don't do a thing. You do realize that there is still more amalgam being placed today than composite? Guess all the dental schools are clueless? Your "peer reviewed literature" is from a bunch of fruit cakes. My 150,000 dentist peers think its a shame to rip people off by scaring them into this crap...
What do you think OSHA meant when they established the MCL of 100µg/m3 that is immediately hazardous to health, a MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS (MCL), never to be exceeded under any circumstances.
Don't you know anything but dogma you've heard somewhere years ago.
Learn the laws and stop breaking them. You cannot legally open the amalgam mixing capsule.
Do you think the state would allow us to even think about removing amalgam without safeguards if there was a detectable amount of mercury? Again, why don't all the older dentists have mercury toxicity? They held and mixed it bare handed for decades.
Actually the state demands that YOU measure your facility whenever it is reasonable to assume that exposure is likely.
CDA unsuccessfully tried your tactics, deny, deny, deny, and did you see how the board raked her over the coals and were astounded that every dentist was not in compliance with existing law in my vdieo "Poison in Your Dentists Office"?
As for some people being unaffected by mercury this is a well documented variation in genetics. My 98 YO father's a retired dentist.
@DrScoles You demanded to know where in OSHA law you're required to protect employees and I gave you the page and chapter. Did you read them? You're required by law when exposure is likely: 1. Give employees informed consent 2. Protective equipment 3. Monitor exposure 4. Medically monitor employees 5. institute work practices 6. Use engineering controls 7. Keep records of this for 30 years in your HazCom book available for inspection without notice. Have you complied with existing laws yet?
@davidkennedydds I don't want to get into an argument, but I agree with DrScoles. One study (name not known) found that the practice of anti-amalgism might be more harmful to the patient as suddenly playing around with implanted amalgam via mechanical methods may expose the patient to huge amounts in amalgam despite safety measures. The FDAeven warns against the practice of anti-amalgism. But like I said, despite what I mentioned, I remain neutral on this issue and want no part in this argument.
@eBiology You're not accurate on the FDA but correct on the issue of the danger of exposing the patient to enormous amounts of elemental mercury vapor and respirable amalgam particles. One dentist poisoned in his practice the toxicologist estimated even greater exposure from the inhaled particles.
So think about this for a moment:
Hg advocates claim it is safe to put in but VERY DANGEROUS to remove.
I think it is a dangerous practice to implant a time-release mercury filling.
I am not trying to argue with my profession but sadly with 1005 removing amalgams I think caution is needed.
Placement of amalgam as well as removal has been shown in multiple studies (Snapp 1983, Molin 1990) to expose the patient to substantial amounts of mercury. Why is that OK?
Frykholm in 1957 using radioactive amalgam showed exposure both from placement and removal in humans and claimed that it was safe.
Not true because he did not measure safety only proved a big exposure.
@davidkennedydds Sorry, not the FDA, but the ADA* was the body that criticized the removal of amalgam. The ADA states that such removal is unethical and unnecessary. Also they claim that 'anti-amalgists' will be disciplined by means as far as license suspension and/or termination. I'm just relaying the information though, and remain neutral considering I want to specialize in orthopedic surgery which is much different from modern dentistry.
10 years ago they stated that, Based upon current scientific data, It is unethical for a dentist to recommend to removal of amalgams from non-allergic patient for the alleged purpose of removing a toxic substance.
EPA says it is hazardous waste.
The unethical Casa Pia study found harm to children 2010.
Monday the j. Alzheimer's Disease will publish a review study that firmly links AD to mercury.
Is it ethical for a trade association to accept money from manufacturers and then advocate license action against researchers that find their product leaks substantial amounts of mercury into rivers streams, blood brain breath?
The ADA claims to "owe no duty of care to the public" Tolhurst v ADA.
They accept funds from the profession and the manufacturers, install members in key government positions (FDA) and dental boards with unclean hands.
i've been suffering from a hwhole host of problems for 9 years, particularly constant spaced out dizzy brain fog and depression which i always put down to drug use. i've had tons of medical tests and nothing showed.. i have 5 of these fillings and i think they could be to blame. i dont have much money but i want to look into getting them removed safely. could someone please advise me how to go about it or where to even start asking. im guessing my NHS dentist will be useless, any help please?
dazzlet666 1 week ago
@dazzlet666 Yes NHS is useless and even can be dangerous if you've already passed the threshold for mercury impairment. Look into finding a dentist who has been trained and will follow the procedures spelled out by the IAOMT on the web page. You can download the information there from featured articles titled Safe Removal of Amalgam Fillings.
Try to minimize chewing and after chewing or something hot keep hard boiled eggs and eat a yoke as that temporarily stops the smoke + Selenium
davidkennedydds 1 week ago
@davidkennedydds Thanks for the advice. my only problem is due to my health problems i am unemployed so cannot afford expensive amalgam removal. do you have any idea how much it would cost for the safe removal and replacement with safer material? also how much would detoxing cost? just a rough idea would be great. i live near newcastle upon tyne and have found one possible dentist although there's no mention of amalgam removal on their website.
dazzlet666 1 week ago
@dazzlet666 Cost varies so much that an internet estimate is useless because it depends on how big the fillings are and what you fix them with. Detoxing is problematic because there are no effective chelation drugs. Yes I know about BAL, DMPS, DMSA byt mercury victims have died despite these weak drugs. N1, N3-bis (2-mercaptoethyl)-isothalamide is fantastic but sadly not available even for humanitarian use. It will save a rat poisoned to death in 10 minutes. Best seek medical advice.
davidkennedydds 1 week ago
@davidkennedydds oh ok thanks again. i've been looking into various things and could you advise me if i'm making the right assumptions. i have been eating canned tuna often so would reducing this or eliminating it totally reduce the effects of mercury intoxication? also you mentioned selenium. would eating foods rich in selenium help control the mercury? what effect would it have? i was thinking about eating alot of brazil nuts and hazelnuts, would this be a good idea?
dazzlet666 6 days ago
@dazzlet666 Personally I avoid all fish but tuna is among the worst as far as mercury is concerned. I'd strongly recommend you find another source of protein that is not contaminated with mercury. Even farm raised fish have serious levels.
As far as selenium goes I prefer taking a small 200 µg capsule (Twin Labs). This provides me with a measured dose and since plants do not need selenium and we do you have much better control over dose. Too much selenium is bad 4 U too.
davidkennedydds 4 days ago
Hi Dave, I have seen 2 different dentists about getting mine removed, the first one quoted me $1700 and the second one was $4900.
The difference is the first one was going to use all in office composite fillings and the second was going to use lab made inlays and 3/4 crowns. Cost vs longevity what would you recommend?
Thanks.
theworldneedswork 1 month ago
I want mine removed. I can't imagine how much smarter I could have been if I didn't have a filling on almost every tooth. Mercury lowers your IQ. Most of them were done in the last 6 years. I distinctly remember having a much sharper mind before the fillings. Now I feel like I'm in a fog all the time...
z31man 1 month ago
@z31man I totally agree on the brain damage to mercury connection. That's the bad news. It has been well known for 20 centuries and only the dentists continue to deny it. Why? Because the impressionable dental students are taught in ADA accredited schools that the kind of mercury they use is the "safe" kind which is total horseshit.
The good news is that in my 30+ years of experience the two most often reported changes after safe-mercury removal were more energy and less or no brain fog
davidkennedydds 1 month ago
@davidkennedydds Hi, i live in Montana and i am curious on what kind of dentist/doctor would i have to see in order to get my silver almagams SAFELY removed? I have an apointment in 4 days with the regular dentist, but I doubt they know what they are doing. I want these fog/memory/cfs symptoms to just go away already!! please reply.
MrMrkeys 1 month ago
@MrMrkeys Go to the IAOMT web site and select one of the dentists there who has learned how to safely remove a mercury filling. I am serious. This is not something you want to do casually. Do it carefully.
davidkennedydds 1 month ago
im scared...
Schoening91 1 month ago
@Schoening91
Why exactly are you scared?
davidkennedydds 1 month ago
@davidkennedydds Pain i suppose.. and even more exposure when done wrong.. I don't live in the US and the Removal clinics here in Denmark are not that many.. Also i am in the dilemma of knowing this now, and not being able to afford it right away..
Schoening91 1 month ago
@Schoening91
Pain is simple to control while fear is not. There are some very good IAOMT dentists in Denmark and throughout the Northern Europe area.
Protection is vital but easy. The IAOMT teaches this so find a dentist who has taken the necessary training.
I read once that in comparing various methods of treating fear using a variety of drugs that alcohol came out superior to all the other chemicals but please do not drive yourself
Find a good painless dentist who stops if your not happy
davidkennedydds 1 month ago
@davidkennedydds Ty :) Is it allright for me to keep the fillings for a little while longer? I can't affort it right away
Schoening91 1 month ago
@Schoening91 That depends on so many factors it is impossible for me to make that decision. If I were you I'd put it on my "to do" list and when you can move away from all toxic materials especially ones implanted in your teeth. Obviously the sooner you become mercury free in a safe and reasonable fashion the sooner your body can begin to unload the enormous body burden these toxic mercury fillings so dramatically contribute to. Safe Removal is the key to lowering your daily dose.
davidkennedydds 1 month ago
@davidkennedydds ty
Schoening91 1 month ago
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Henrik1966 2 months ago
WTF!?
i just had an amalgam filling replaced and the dentist didn't do ANY OF THIS and also didn't tell me to breath from nose...
wtf?will i die now????
erwcat 2 months ago
@erwcat No you're not going to die today but you will certainly still have some excess mercury in your brain from this stupidity the day you die.
It is insane for dentists to be allowed to willy nilly expose the entire population to enormous amounts of mercury and take no precautions for themselves, their staff or their patients. If you want to see what this does to their workers go watch "Got Mercury".
They can do this because OSHA and the various regulators simply do NOTHING.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@erwcat nothing will happen to you, don't listen to Davidkennedydds, he's just another dentist that wants to make money. He will probably make you pay 10 times more in order to remove something that has been used for over 100 years now and is proven to be safe.
kosm001 2 months ago
@kosm001 So what ever gave you the idea that I would charge you anything? Oh I see, that is what you do and so you think I do too. Well I don't so go find some other way to refute the well established facts that:
1. People and fetuses are grossly exposed to mercury from amalgams.
2. Dental Personnel are injured
3. A whole host of chronic neurodegenerative diseases in the amalgam bearing population that are less frequent in non-mercury-filling population
4. There is no proof its safe.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@davidkennedydds
and why would I believe a random guy on youtube that is saying things out of his mind without having a single clue about them?
here is a link where you can find enough proof about the safety of amalgam
ada[dot]org/sections/professionalResources/pdfs/amalgam_literature_review_0907[dot]pdf
oh let me guess, you are thinking that water is not safe as well, since if we drink too much of it we can die correct?
kosm001 2 months ago
@kosm001 I see you would prefer to rely upon the ADA's out of date claims and whose members profit from denial.
You should pay better attention to science because you would have known that the highly unethical prospective studies of children cited by the ADA have firmly established:
1. Disproportionate harm to males by mercury
2. Abnormal urinary coproporphyrinogens (caused by Hg)
3. The ADA controlled FDA has repeatedly lost their claim of safety (White Paper)
Most recently in 2010.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@kosm001
I would also ask you to go back and review the Smoking Tooth video. In there I show you the relevant peer reviewed publications from my library that were funded by the IAOMT as we believe in science.
In addition, please go to the IAOMT web page and download the "Case Against Amalgam" as well as our successful Request to Reconsider the FDA's White Paper you would be much better informed and see that sometimes random guys on the interned actually have some knowledge you don't.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@davidkennedydds you want me to believe youtube videos? No sir, I need some evidence.Watching some smoke coming out of a so called tooth is not evidence. It's just a picture and nothing else. I gave you statistics and research programs that have been completed by ADA and you are not accepting it. OK then why should I believe you? You guys are claiming that since mercury is bad, then so are amalgams. I'm sorry but medicine doesn't work like that.
kosm001 2 months ago
@kosm001 Corrections to our misunderstanding:
No I don't want you to believe a video. That would be really stupid. What I sent you to do was look at the studies that are presented there.
No you do not have to buy a thing as I have posted the entire video in pieces on YouTube. Safer amalgam Removal is one portion of the larger video.
While the ADA does obviously greatly influence dental education it most certainly does not regulate mercury fillings. . . the FDA does.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@kosm001 Correction: "Since mercury is bad, then so are amalgams. I'm sorry but medicine doesn't work like that."
Actually this is where we started back in 1984. Since we agree mercury (Hg) is bad then in order for amalgams to be bad three conditions would need to be met:
1. >Hg exposure from amalgams
2. Increased Hg intake
3. Increased body burden
All three conditions were firmly satisfied by 1984.
Then the argument moved to Proof of Causation also know as the Cigarette Defense
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
and you want me to pay like 20$ in order to see the whole DVD. Sounds interesting. I can have free evidence from internationally recognized companies, and I have to pay in order to see a video that claims to have evidence against amalgam.
It doesn't make any sense. If you have something to show to the world, then go ahead and do it. By saying "ok guys, here's the evidence, but you have to pay for it" is just plain wrong.
kosm001 2 months ago
@kosm001 Confused again: I sent you to download (for free) two detailed analysis of the mercury issue. Both of these contained our successful refutation of the 2006 FDA White Paper and the 2009 declaration of safety. In both instances the expert panels agreed that the FDA's White Paper was not accurate. In fact we pointed out 27 factual errors.
Since you are confident in the "free evidence from internationally recognized companies" then I recommend you read the MSDS you recieved.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@kosm001 Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is contained in every shipment of mercury/silver fillings and therefore known to every dentist. In part after the skull and crossbones showing mercury is a deadly poison the manufacturer goes on to list their restrictions for use which are being violated daily:
1) Not for use in children under age (6) FDA Panel questioned that age as too low
2) Not recommended in pregnancy ever
3) Not in the presence of other metals (like braces and crowns)
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@kosm001 You firm assurances ring hollow for K.J and his mother. K.J.'s kidneys were destroyed by an ignorant dentist who did nothing to protect him during placement. This young boy is awaiting a kidney transplant thanks to fools in the dental profession willing to stake their reputations and others lives on a 150 year old myth.
No amount of mercury is safe. Some people react to minute quantities and thus the material needs to be banned.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
propaganda
kosm001 5 months ago
@kosm001 Those damned environmentalists always trying to keep heavy metals out of the air, water, mouth. We should just sit back and do nothing and wait and see if any harm comes of this.
Oh wait. That is what we've done for the last 150 years and today one out of 6 babies are born with excessive mercury in their cord blood. 1 out of 10 will die with Alzheimer's disease so surely you would recommend we continue on the present course right?
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@davidkennedydds LOL nice evidence you got there. You must be a Christian as well, right?
kosm001 2 months ago
@kosm001 Hmmm do I see a cognitive disconnect here?
Can you please explain what the myth of religion has to do with the myth of mercury tooth implant safety to do with each other?
Would not a Jew not be as likely to be poisoned by time-release mercury tooth implants as a Muslim or a Hindu?
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@kosm001
Go to the IAOMT web page and download the "Case Against Amalgam" as well as our successful 2009 Request to Reconsider the FDA's White Paper you would be much better informed. It is FREE to all.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
This country is fucked how dare America charge 500$ per filling and not have the courtesy to tell people that mercury a toxic chemical is being put I'n your mouth, or advise people about the other options such as resin,now there's a business of dentists removing the mercury and I bet it costs even more for the tideous operation.This is the most cynical/ immoral thing I ever heard, and its all because of money and greed.
dothisdothat321 6 months ago 8
@dothisdothat321 What you say is true but the problem is much deeper than mere greed and stupidity. The schools TEACH these dentist that mercury is proven safe. The VIOLATE all the OSHA rules in order to have students mix, pack, carve and polish mercury/silver fillings thus exposing the student to enormous amounts of mercury. Is it any wonder that numerous studies have found dentists impaired?
If the occupational safety laws were enforced this awful material would immediately disappear.
davidkennedydds 6 months ago
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davidkennedydds 6 months ago
@dothisdothat321 Actually the way these toxic plugs are sold is they are cheaper than non-toxic ones. The biggest purchaser of mercury fillings is the US Government. They are used on the Native American reservation to fill cavities, in all branches of the military and coast guard, for welfare and thus tons (Yes tons) of mercury are being implanted every year in hundreds of thousands of peoples teeth. The problems this causes are enormous.
davidkennedydds 2 months ago
@dothisdothat321 Too fucking true, pretty much the same story with everything on this fucking planet. Time to hold accountable some of these power hungry, greedy, corrupt politicians me thinks. It's those fuckers who are in the pockets of the corrupt corporations, receiving copious amounts of cash on the side to pass bills and laws that favour the corporations.
Time to kick some corrupt ass me thinks.
BLAGASPANTS 4 weeks ago
Why!? Why would they put mercury in our mouths!? WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? my whole life could have been different if i hadnt had the filling!
SubliminalStatic 7 months ago 6
@SubliminalStatic I think the short answer for dentist is ignorance easy cheap and poor training.
The longer answer is not very pretty and includes deception by manufacters & trade associations and willingness government regulatory bodies to arrive at predetermined conclusions ie mercury in fillings OK. They actively thwart research that links mercury to neurological diseases. I recall when the research team in Kentucky discovered high levels of mercury in Alzheimer's brain NIMH cut funding.
davidkennedydds 7 months ago
@SubliminalStatic
why ? GREED !!!
rematikindonesia 4 months ago
origins of the word mercury are both interesting and provocative. Mercury was the God of Commerce in the Roman Empire and meant fabrication, trickery, thieving and slight of-hand.)
toxicmercuryamalgam com / autoimmune-disease-mercury
rematikindonesia 4 months ago
Amalgam fillings are highly poisonous! I just recently watched a trailer of a documentary that it seems is coming up soon, is called "MERCURY UNDERCOVER", it's actually here on youtube. Just type mercury undercover trailer
comedydefensive 7 months ago
@711mind About what?
davidkennedydds 8 months ago
Snapp's 1989 study stated: "Total exposure due to the grinding out of the amalgams was estimated to be 1.7 ng Hg/mL for eight subjects." There is no indication that any protection was used other than a rubber dam (in some cases). Question: have any studies been done to estimate the total exposure due to removal in patients that are protected with the most conservative protocols as in the video? In other words, by what amount does safe removal reduce the blood spike? Thanks.
2112618 8 months ago
@2112618 I am aware of ZERO studies where the patient was well protected following the IAOMT protections but I am aware of a radioactive mercury filling removal by extraction. In that case there was again a spike in urine mercury. So if applying a forceps to a tooth with an amalgam for 12 weeks makes mercury spew from the urine there is probably no way to get the exposure to zero so the best we can do is something better than before but not perfect once you've been implanted with a toxic metal.
davidkennedydds 8 months ago
@2112618 How many ML are there in an average person's blood? I'd guess about 8000 I think so 1.7 X 8000 = 13600 ng which is a pretty significant amount and well over the EPA's MRL. The reason I sent Snapp is he did a much better job of protection than Molin did in her first study in 1990. In that study the blood level spiked and after a year had only dropped to 50% below baseline. Snapp got a 90% drop in 7 months. Guess which dentist used a rubber dam effectively?
davidkennedydds 8 months ago
I am having problems finding a IAOMT dentist that uses BOTH positive pressure nasal hood AND Supplemental vacuum held at the patients chin (as in the video). Most appear to now be using a room filter 24/7 but no supplemental vacuum to pull the vapor away from the patient's face. Others use only a nasal cannula. I want the full treatment. Which doctor is in this video? I want this exact protocol in the video and am willing to travel. Thanks.
2112618 8 months ago
@2112618
Look for an Accredited member of the IAOMT. Nasal cannula is not approved as it allows air to be drawn in around the tube. We've approved both passive and positive pressure but I personally think positive pressure is better. As for the big vacuum on the chest during procedures that is optional with the protocols as is the room filter.
If the mercury gets over to the room filter it has to go by your nose first so I don't really see the purpose unless to protect the office/waiting room.
davidkennedydds 8 months ago
A few dentists on the net are claiming that research shows that after 15 to 25 years 100% of the mercury has evaporated from a filling. They do this to further support the proposition that this mercury is released as vapor and absorbed via the lungs. I don't dispute the proposition they seek to support but I wonder what you think of the notion that after 25 years all of the mercury is gone?
2112618 8 months ago
@2112618
I've not seen any research that would support the 100% figure but I have seen many studies that found more than 25% and that amount is huge. Average filling has 750,000µg of Hg. EPA MRL daily dose is 10 so one filling alone could give you the maximum daily dose for 51 years.
If you put an aged amalgam inwater and measure the amount of mercury that comes off in 24 hours it varies depending on brand and operator and from batch to batch from 10 to 100.
All amalgams leak substantial Hg
davidkennedydds 8 months ago
Removing amalgam must become a criminal offense
TheOwlDaddy 9 months ago
@TheOwlDaddy
Au contraire, it is the implanting if time-release mercury fillings while deceptively calling them silver or amalgam that is already against the law and at the same time violating every nations occupational health and safety laws by not providing your employees any informed consent, engineering controls and protective equipment.
Those are the criminals that will one day soon be brought to justice and hopefully punished severely both economically and criminally.
davidkennedydds 9 months ago
@davidkennedydds Please first take the CEO's of 3M ESPE, VOCO and Dentsply Culk to the Electric Chair!!!
TheOwlDaddy 8 months ago
Thanks for this vid. The IAOMT protocol states: "A nasal cannula that admits ambient air won't help because the patient can breath the mercury contaminated air around the tiny cannula tubing"
Question: Why are so many "amalgam safe" dentists using nasal cannula tubing and not a full nose hood with positive pressure?
2112618 9 months ago
@2112618
The short answer is they use inappropriate methods because of the deplorable instruction they received at their ADA accredited dental school and the paucity of enforcement by OSHA.
Every dentist in the world removes amalgam. Sadly most do the patient a disservice by exposing them to enormous amounts of mercury.
The solution is to INSIST that your dentist at the very least be accredited in "Safer Amalgam Removal" by the IAOMT who accredit by peer review methods.
davidkennedydds 9 months ago
Thank you for the response. Do you know of any lawyers in Seattle, Washington, who can help me in filing a case. Please if you can let me know or guide me towards someone who has gone to court on this issue. Thank you for your time.
206Revolution 10 months ago
@206Revolution Unfortunately I don't know anyone familiar with this kind of litigation in Seattle. A relevant case was Tolhurst vs. ADA in 1990's. He lost but there were significant rulings that may be of help. The ADA successfully claimed that they owe no duty of care to the public and do not guarantee the safety of anything or materials dentists use.
That falls under the rule of the F&DA. You may wish to go watch the latest YouTube videos of the testimony of mercury victims last December.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
@davidkennedydds I'm about to commit suicide, I had amalgams taken out incorrectly and now I am feeling the effects. They did alot of things carelessly and to top it off they put in a material that I think may be toxic called DiamondLite, I don't know what to do other than to give up on life and kill myself.
tfrenn 10 months ago
@tfrenn Personally I like DiamondLite as a filling material as it contains no Bis-GMA and was one I used quite a bit when I still practiced restorative dentistry. Depression and thoughts of suicide are quite common when amalgams are removed incorrectly as you can be exposed to a bolus dose of mercury. The important thing to remember is that you will get better as the body removes the mercury so do things that help you detox and especially don't kill yourself and do call the suicide hot line now.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
@davidkennedydds Hi I ended up going threw some quack dentist who claimed to be holistic, and he she removed my 2 of my amalgams and I know that proper precautions were not taken and I was ended up being exposed to mercury, then they replaced it with some crap called DaimondLite which is propably toxic too, is there anything that you can replace amalgams with that aren't toxic, what about Gold Fillings, they seem safer than those composites made out of BPA
tfrenn 10 months ago
@tfrenn Diamond lite does not contain BPA so that is not a worry.
Gold is a metal that sucks mercury out of amalgam fillings. I'd use it only after you've been free of mercury for a while.
What I like better than gold is to do the larger fillings indirectly in the lab. You can take an impression, make a model, fill the void, bake and strengthen the filling then go back and bond this hardened filling in the tooth. The filling is almost inert and wears slower than tooth but looks great too.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
@Obliexis
You have by far the largest source of exposure to mercury implanted in a time-release mercury/silver filling. These toxic plugs also contribute substantially to the environmental load in sewage rivers streams and even drinking water. Time has come to ban all uses if mercury in medicine (thimerosal) and dentistry.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
First off I want to thank you for your hard work on making the public aware of this toxic materiel. Dr. Kennedy if a dentist with out my permission put amalgam fillings in my mouth and told me it was a silver filling and never made me aware of the mercury content in it. Can I take them to court for this and have them pay for all cost to safely remove it in a facility where they have the safety protocol procedure? Please I would like to know if that is possible?
206Revolution 10 months ago
@206Revolution Yes you can on several counts and I'd ask for a lot more than the cost of removing the material. Jim Love is an attorney in Tulsa OK who has extensive experience in mercury litigation. He tells me that you lacked meaningful informed consent, received a large dose or mercury,were intentionally deceived by the dentist refusal to disclose the mercury release and your tooth was mutilated so that it cannot be simply filled but now needs a much stronger and larger restoration
Good luck
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
Dr. Kennedy, I noticed that you made several comments that as an employer you "will be sued" for not protecting staff in the manner suggested based on OSHA protocols. Knowing that the United States is the most litigious nation in the world, how many cases are you aware of here where a staff member has successfully sued a dentist for mercury exposure incurred during unsafe amalgam removal? It sounds like a common problem, but I am unaware of any such cases.
kj2177 10 months ago
@kj2177 I think my point focused more on the employers obligation to comply with existing occupational safety laws and there are actually quite a few cases against employers from injured staff. I recall a case of a young dentist who gave birth to a severely affected child. The diagnosis was acrodynia. She demanded to know how it was possible that her infant could be mercury poisoned. The doctor said, "Well you are a dentist aren't you?" She said so what and discovered why she her fetus injured.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
@kj2177 The dentist exclaimed how could that be? She'd been taught as I was that the mercury is locked into the filling and not released and any transient release during placement and removal was insignificant. We all know this was and is not true and the laws must be followed.
She sued Loyola and reached an out of court settlement. Same applies to many damaged dental assistants if the figure out what harmed the baby. Dentists ignore the OSHA laws at their own peril.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
@kj2177 There are several videos on my channel that are applicable to this issue. Karen Palmer in "Got Mercury" explains how she was injured on the job. I've got a new 30 mini documentary that plays on my public access program with Karen Palmer and Karen Burns another mercury poisoned dental assistant that goes into some detail on how their lives were destroyed by their occupational employment in dentistry. "Poison in Yoru dentist's Office" is a thrashing the CDA got from the Cal-OSHA board.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
just had this done last week unexpectantly.. promise you no masks were used.... eeeee grateful I lived!
rsfff 10 months ago
@rsfff The grace of good fortune shined upon you. You should be happy.
Some people who are APOe 4/4 are unable to excrete mercury from brain. The kind of mercury that comes off amalgam fillings is uncharged Hg0 and amalgam particulates. The Hg0 readily crosses the blood brain barrier. Once inside it is converted by enzyme catalase to Hg+ and Hg++ or Hg2 in the vernacular of the F&DA. Once charged it cannot exit the brain and has to be transported out. The APOe 2 and 3 can do this but not 4s.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
I think this ruined my life. I had a filling when I was about 11. After that I've had high anxiety, depression and nerve problems. I am really pissed at that arogant asshole who put it in my mouth. I remember he filled an extra tooth on the spot without telling my mom until it was done. Apparently that child dentist didn't give a shit about children.
panzerkilla 11 months ago
@panzerkilla
Sorry to hear about another victim of a totally preventable tragedy. Unfortunately every year an additional 50 TONS of mercury are either stuffed in teeth or dumped down the sewer drains to contaminate soil, water and our entire environment.
Dentists will not willingly stop using mercury any more than BP will stop drilling for oil.
You have to make them stop by fighting with the rich and powerful.
davidkennedydds 11 months ago
@panzerkilla
This is all too common a problem and until the citizens rise up and take the responsible parties to task they will continue to implant time release mercury fillings in children and adult teeth while deceptively calling them silver.
One dentist tried to claim they are called 'silver' just because of color.
I pointed out that if you sold me a beautiful ring and told me it was gold when in fact it was only "gold" colored I am certain the jury would find you were a thief.
davidkennedydds 10 months ago
@forever1634 Read the book "Root Canal Coverup" ... you can get it on Amazon. THEN see if you still believe it.
Shordack 1 year ago
@Shordack
Agreed that George Meinig's book is a good start but for thsoe who prefer YouTube I recommend "Rooted".
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
How could they be allowed to poison me like this? I was just an innocent child and they put toxic poison in me.
NarisTorquere 1 year ago
@NarisTorquere
While the dentists a few years ago could have pleaded ignorance that is no longer possible because of the IAOMT. With the help of hundreds of dedicated members and research scientists we've proven mercury exits fillings. The FDA is suppose to be protecting you but instead chose to protect a 200 year old material. We caught them and again blasted them with science. Hopefully future generations will not suffer as you did.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@NarisTorquere the fillings only release toxic fumes if the dentist doesnt know what he/ she is doing ive had an amalgam in me mouth for years and its still good but may need to get it redone at some point my dad has loads in his mouth all are amalgams... and i can safely say non of us are dead yet lol i really wouldnt worry too much bout it
houndsofroses 1 year ago
@houndsofroses
If death is your endpoint then you are correct that no one I know has died immediately after receiving a mercury leaking filling. On the other hand KJ is awaiting a kidney transplant and the physician in Safer Amalgam Removal would have died of Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy of he hadn't received a heart transplant.
IDCM heart has 22,000 more mercury than someone who died of a heart attack for example.
All "silver" fillings tested to date leak substantial amounts of mercury.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds yeh just got it reffitted a few days ago and still completely healthy.. besides ive worked with my dentist before and shes told me everything there is to know... amalgam fillings are completely safe and only leak mercury if not fitted correctly .. everyone needs to stop worrying
houndsofroses 1 year ago
@houndsofroses
What you've experienced is negligent misrepresentation which has long been the sole basis of amalgam usage.
At the FDA hearings in December 2010 using the minimum estimate of mercury released (FDA's) and the highest estimate of the Minimum Risk Level (EPA's) Dr. Richardson using the US data found that 63,000,000 Americans are exposed to mercury above the MRL.
It is impossible to deny the data.
Ask you dentist what your daily dose is in micrograms per kg and see what she says.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@forever1634 Talk about ignorant poss.
Focus not and get one thing very clear___ this video is about removing mercury from teeth and not exposing everyone to enormous amounts of mercury. It is not about how long other materials last or how much money amalgam packing mills make compared to individual dentists who conscientiously take as much time and spend as much money necessary on training and equipment to do their job safely.
This video is about safer mercury disposal as opposed to careless.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
I would also call the CDC and the USAMRIID to drill out a filling..... ridiculous !!!
TheOwlDaddy 1 year ago
@TheOwlDaddy
I know you think that you don't have to because you are ignorant of OSHA but it is the LAW.
You failed to learn about your obligations as an employer in dental school because the school is equally obligated and it too is breaking the OSHA law. Interestingly some of the universities have a zero mercury policy in student areas and the environmental disaster of the dental school is beginning to show.
Good luck with your explanation to the jury when you employees sue you for cause.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds Well, doc, my dentist would be sued just for making the ATTEMPT to remove my fillings.....
TheOwlDaddy 1 year ago
@TheOwlDaddy
That is what is known as freedom of choice.
76% of the general public when asked did not even KNOW there was mercury in a so called "Silver" filling. This is a long deception by the dental profession for economic gain because many people would not have mercury implanted if they knew it was in the fillings. So many in fact that the majority of dentists polled by the Wealth Dentist use NO amalgam at all inn their practices.
BTW more men were mercury-free than women dentist.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@LoveMe24HoursADay
Sure you can but pretty soon you end up looking like Gabby Hayes. Teeth serve a useful purpose for starting the digestion of food and smiling when you see someone you love so don't be too cavalier with their preservation. If the tooth has a mercury filling then remove it safely. If it does not then refuse when some quack dentist tries to deceive you and claim he/she is installing a "Silver" filling. It is mercury so just say NO and go find a more informed dentist.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
If some dentist tells you that placing a mercury-leaking filling in your tooth is safe you are talking with a fool.
If a dentist intends to take your old mercury/silver fillings out for any reason (broken tooth, decay, even to place a crown . . . any reason) then you should insist that the standard precautions shown in this video are followed.
If they refuse then report them to the OSHA board, encourage their staff to file a complaint as well and go find a new dentist who follows the law.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds Maybe also encourage them to find a dentist who's short of cash. Help them make the payments on the BMW by paying them big money to drill out perfectly good fillings. Of course, we all know that, despite any precautions taken, mercury exposure during amalgam removal far exceeds that of just keeping the filling where it is. But hey, the space suit looks real high tech, so it must be effective, right?
rubinsteindds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds
Now that I've furnished you with several peer reviewed and published studies indicating harm
1. hearing loss
2. cleft lip
3. Perio
4. Autism
silence?
The video is only about safer removal. Whether or not a person chooses to keep or remove old mercury fillings is their choice and certainly not yours. If you do not comply with the OSHA laws I can guarantee you will be paying your staff big dollars for your negligence.
Removal will occur even after mercury fillings r banned.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds To imply that anything in this video is "standard" is a lie even greater than most of your others. The community based standards of care require none of this nonsense and with good reason. The "IAOMT" is a trade organization, nothing more, dedicated to misleading gullible and desperate people into thinking their amalgams are making them sick. That's your business model. Deal with it.
rubinsteindds 1 year ago
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds THAT is what you anti-amalgam quacks are calling research? A survey of 39 people? There were more people than that on the bus I took to work this morning! That "study" didn't control for any other sources of hearing loss, like for example, the sound of a high speed dental drill 2 inches from your ear. What a joke. If that's your idea of research, it isn't even up to the standards of the typical quack. Please reference a quack study that is better constructed. Thanks.
rubinsteindds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds
You said published in a peer reviewed journal and that is exactly what I sent. Your criticism is not valid as you apparently haven't read the research. She actually did control for other potential sources of hearing loss. The dental drill was not found to produce a significant decrement in hearing.
In addition by selecting only women in a very narrow age bracket 39 gives her the power to calculate statistical significance and she found hearing loss in a dose dependent fashion.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds 39 people is weak. You can say my criticism isn't "valid" all you want. Doesn't make it so, although it is probably good enough for the poor suckers who's teeth you're destroying by removing perfectly good restorations for no reason. Numerous confounding variables were totally ignored in this "research"
I suggest you re-read the full study, not the excerpts you seem accustomed to working from. An open mind might help, though in your case it might be a bit too late for that.
rubinsteindds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds JK Kern, et al., Toxicity Biomarkers in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Blinded Study of Urinary Porphyrins “Accepted Pediatrics International Article”; doi: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2010.03196.x
Conclusion: These results suggest that the levels of Hg-toxicity-associated porphyrins are higher
in children with an ASD diagnosis than controls. Although the pattern seen (increased 5cxP,
prcP, and cP) is characteristic of Hg toxicity, the influence of other factors of genetics and other metals
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds
Perhaps you'd like this research better. The more amalgams the mother gets the worse autism her fetus has.
Geier, DA, Kern, JK, Geier, MR, A prospective study of prenatal mercury exposure from maternal dental amalgams and autism severity Acta Neurobiol Exp 2009, 69: 1-9
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds
Do you warn your patients that placement of Amalgam Fillings During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Cleft Palate? Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - Elsevier Global Medical News By Susan London
SEATTLE (EGMN) – Lisa A. DeRoo, Ph.D reported In a case-control study involving 1,336 infants born in Norway that women who have amalgam dental fillings placed during the first trimester of pregnancy are much more likely to give birth to infants with isolated cleft palate.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds Id be grateful for details of this paper as it is not listed on medline or pubmed
SEIDOKAN02 1 year ago
@SEIDOKAN02 If you google the title "Amalgam Fillings During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Cleft Palate? Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - Elsevier Global Medical News By Susan London" You will find the article based upon her report of findings. She said she won't published the final results in the literature until it has been repeated. Study done in Norway.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
DeRoos points out that they are 5 out of 5 in the smaller study for women dosed with mercury from amalgams placed during early pregnancy. “I want to point out, though, that all five women who reported having
placements in both months 1 and 2 had infants with cleft palate,” Dr. DeRoo
noted. “Four of them had infants with cleft palate only, and one of them had an
infant with cleft lip with cleft palate.”
Why did it take 200 years to find this out?
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds I've spent a large part of this weekend doing an essay on this very subject, hence the interest in your quoted literature.
I've read over 50 papers and most show no link to any of the diseases,
The Link to autism you mentioned is the only published science to actually potenially link amalgam use to any disease.
Unfortunately we cannot use in a discussion about science unreviewed commentary on an unpublished paper.
SEIDOKAN02 1 year ago
@SEIDOKAN02 There are many papers linking amalgam to gum disease. Holmes showed the more amalgam in mom the more in baby's hair unless baby has autism in which case there is almost none in hair. baby is not able to excrete.
Several by Siblerud, R.L., The Relationship between Mercury from Dental Amalgam and Mental Health, American Journal of Psychotherapy, v.XLIII, no.4:575-587 October 1989
We just made FDA send their proclamation of safety back to the fools.
63M Am exposed above 2 Hg the MRL
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@SEIDOKAN02
Rothwell J. A., Boyd P. J., Amalgam dental fillings and hearing loss International Journal of Audiology 2008; 47:770 776
The results suggest an association between more amalgam fillings and poorer thresholds at higher frequencies, which could contribute to presbyacusis in developed countries. This provides further argument for the use of amalgams to be phased out where suitable alternatives exist.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
You should go read the Petition to FDA for Reconsideration on the IAOMT's web site. We had many many peer reviewed references but the fundamental issue is dose of mercury. There too we prevailed using their estimate of daily dose and the EPA's reference dose for minimum risk. 63 Million Americans are exposed above the MRL using the most conservative estimates of exposure and a very high MRL.
That is not even considering environmental contamination and occupational injury.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
Respond to this video... Certrainly my reading has done nothing to convince me that amalgam use is 100% but there is NO PROOF of any link to disease.
I have more concerns about mercury in the environment, the food chain and the mining of mercury in kyrgyzsta.
Will I be putting on Breathing apparatus to remove or place amalgams in the morning, no. Will I think more about it. Yes
SEIDOKAN02 1 year ago
@SEIDOKAN02
Why would you protect just the birds and the bees when by far the predominant source of human exposure to mercury is from the use of amalgam fillings?
One of many autopsy studies Guzzi, Gianpaolo DDS et al. Dental Amalgam and Mercury Levels in Autopsy Tissues: Food for Thought. American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. 27(1):42-45, March 2006.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@SEIDOKAN02
We now have published peer reviewed proof of causation in a highly unethical mercury exposure experiment in orphans. The poor children who were sensitive to mercury began to excrete in a dose dependent fashion a coproporphyrin.
David presented this at the FDA hearing.
Biometals. 2010 Nov 5. [Epub]
Geier DA, et al. A significant relationship between mercury exposure from dental amalgams and urinary porphyrins: a further assessment of the Casa Pia children's dental amalgam trial.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds I have access to most medical and dental journals, but have no access to the journal of audiology or Biometals, so I would be grateful if you could forward them to me or upload them to scribd where I will read them.
SEIDOKAN02 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds Id be grateful for the details of this paper as it is not listed in Medline or pubmed
SEIDOKAN02 1 year ago
@SEIDOKAN02
I'll be glad to email you PDFs of the articles I have. send me an emai to my gmail account user name davidkennedydds
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds
Since you seem to be unfamiliar with the current literature I suspect that you are equally unfamiliar with older research as well. The liars keep claiming without any basis that there is no peer reviewed research that has ever found a significant relationship between mercury/silver fillings and any disorder.
That is untrue. I cited hearing loss.
Gum disease is linked to amalgam.
Ziff, MF. Documented Clinical Side-Effects to Dental Amalgam. Adv Dent Res, 6:131-4, 1992.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
Some researchers now believe that mercury is the single largest cause of disease in the world today. The single largest source of mercury in humans in from dental amalgam fillings.
The short list of diseases linked to mercury are:
Loss of hearing
Loss of eyesight
Loss of memory (Alzheimer's)
Lost of motor function ALS and /or MS
Tremor Parkinson's
Treatment during pregnancy Autism and clef lip
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
Where does this guy practice...........removing amalgam fillings for the false claim that they are causing health problems is against the law. If dr kennedy has informed you that you need to have your dental fillings removed because of merccury then you can SUE him . He needs to be reported to his state board.
keithooo123 1 year ago
@keithooo123
If any licensed dentist makes the claim to you that mercury is bound into the filling and not released you should file an ethical complaint with the licensing board. They won't do anything but then you take it to the next step and file a complaint against the licensing board with the Attorney General.
They are telling false statements and there are many laws that prohibit professionals from attempting to decieve the public.
Deception is why the call these mercury plugs silver.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@keithooo123
Dentist Bozo lets focus here. . . you are blogging on a video about how amalgams can and should be removed safely in compliance with very long standing laws called OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety).
The fact that you did not recognize these legally mandated, simple, employee/patient protection steps indicates to me that you do not follow the law and I pity your employees and your patients. What kind of primitive education did you get that failed to teach you current law?
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@keithooo123
I practiced for over 30 years and not once did anyone ever sue me for anything. Can you say the same?
It is not against the law anywhere on the planet for a professional to tell the truth. It is against the law to lie and if you claim mercury/silver amalgam fillings are proven to be safe then you are telling big fat lies.
The Geiers found individuals in the Casa Pai study had a dose dependent abnormal porphyrin. That firmly established harm from amalgams. (FDA Hearings 2010)
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds You haven't been sued because the best con men always maintain the confidence of their victims, even after stealing their money.
No research (excepting bufoon-style research) has EVER shown that a population of people with amalgam fillings have ANY health outcomes different from an amalgam free population. Period. No matter. There are plenty of people who no nothing about science out there, who are willing to line your pockets while you destroy their teeth.
rubinsteindds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds And buffoons like Rubinstein who when confronted with facts just lie through their teeth.
So now it is my turn to make a formal request for retraction. You say no research has found ANY health condition.
How about hearing?
Rothwell J. A., Boyd P. J., Amalgam dental fillings and hearing loss International Journal of Audiology 2008 found in 40-45 YO women more amalgam fillings = more hearing loss.
Isn't that a health condition? Huh?
During pregnancy Clef Palate
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds THAT is what you anti-amalgam quacks are calling research? A survey of 39 people? There were more people than that on the bus I took to work this morning! That "study" didn't control for any other sources of hearing loss, like for example, the sound of a high speed dental drill 2 inches from your ear. What a joke. If that's your idea of research, it isn't even up to the standards of the typical quack. Please reference a quack study that is better constructed. Thanks.
rubinsteindds 1 year ago
I thought when Hal Huggins lost his license people gave less credibility to these anti-amalgam buffoons.
A hundred years ago, snake oil salesmen had the answer for your every ailment. They had about an equal amount of "science" backing them up as this Bozo.
By the way. Table salt is sodium chloride. Shall we declare salt a toxic substance as well, because it contains Chlorine? Like Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does"
rubinsteindds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds Talk about buffoon! To compare table salt to amalgam is not only in accurate but down right deceptive. If I put a pound of table salt in a skillet on high overnight I'd still have a pound of salt in the morning. If I put a pound of amalgam in that same skillet I'd kill everyone in the house. BTW this actually happened once.
Anyone who has had chemistry knows that covalent bonded salt is not a metallic mixture and it is unprofessional to make false statements to the public.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@rubinsteindds
Did you recognize the snake oil salesman in the mirror last month when for the second time the IAOMT expert panel annihilated the ADA/AGD/FDA dentists on amalgam risk assessment.
Published peer reviewed risk assessment using only the most conservative estimates of mercury filling exposure estimated 63 Million Americans are exposed above the EPAs minimum risk level? Using a more accurate MRL the number jumps to 120 Million. 100% of those with 12 fillings are over the MRL.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@lysel3 It is a mystery isn't it?
When you can see in the mirror the tide marks on amalgam filled teeth and diseased grey-stained gum tissue of the socket, which pours blood with even gentle brushing. All my amalgams had decay underneath, being POROUS - and just crumbled away during (unsafe) removal.
The fault of the patient? Or perhaps this particular dentist hadn't properly administered this otherwise Safe And Cost Effective treatment "option" ?
TungstenV 1 year ago
Dr Kennedy,
Can you cite the "peer reviewed literature" of which you speak?
OSHA laws were promulgated by the same VP of their union who holds his own views last time I checked.
Will wait for your citiations of truly "peer reviewed literature" from bona fide experts and NOT holistic people with no true scientific credentials.
Very important to understand the difference between "peer reviewed" ( by truly bona fide scientists and "anecdotal" reports from wannabe scientists.
Waiting to hear.
woosailor 1 year ago
@woosailor
OSHA laws in all 50 states require employeers to protect employees as follows:
When exposure [to mercury] is likely employers shall:
1. Give employees informed consent
2. Provide personal protective equipment
3. Monitor employee's exposure levels
4. Medically monitor employees at least annually
5. institute work practices
6. Use engineering controls
7. Keep records of this for 30 years in your HazCom book available for inspection without notice.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
Respond to this video...
OSHA is not generally considered a subject of peer review but rather is the result of regulations promulgated by elected bodies so it is not clear what bona fide scientist you wish to hear from. The OSHA TWA standard is based on a study of adult males (Fawer, R.F., et.al., Measurement of hand tremor induced by industrial exposure to metallic mercury, British J of ind Med 1983)
Exactly what then are your qualifications for this powerful position?
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds ....You are correct. I do NOT have qualifications to debate this "position" but then I might ask you the same question......"What are your qualifications"?
woosailor 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds ...I would hope you would have far more legitimate peer reviewed literature than one that is 27 years old and does not appear to mention dental amalgam.
Again, i do not have the time or energy to debate zealots. Have not placed 5 amalgams in the last year but DO object to people like you and the ill-informed Barbara Boxer denying patients who cannot afford composites the use of a safe and cost effective way to restore teeth.
I wish you the best.
woosailor 1 year ago
@woosailor
While many unions have advocated for members protections they do not have the legislative power to enact laws. Only elected legislatures have that power and the point is dentists are not following the laws because they cannot and stay under the MAC of 100.
The dental professions careless disregard of employee health was detailed in the Rowland 1994 Occup Enviro Med a case controlled study that found 40% decrease in fertility. There are may other studies but space does not allow.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@woosailor
Anecdotal is the only thing advocates for continued use of mercury rely upon, 150 years of use. During that 150 years how many new neurological diseases appeared like Parkinson's, Alzheimers, MS, ALS, autissm, acrodynia, autoimmunity.
And don't forget the hearing loss found by Rothwell J. A., Boyd P. J., Amalgam dental fillings and hearing loss International Journal of Audiology 2008; 47:770 776
Also found in dentists.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
This Video massively overestimates the dangers of silver amalgam removal
SEIDOKAN02 1 year ago
@SEIDOKAN02
Point #1 Everything shown in the video with respect to MSA masks, engineering controls and work practices is required by OSHA law.
Point #2. If mercury exposure is avoidable it should be avoided.
Point #3 ADA Spokesperson Rodway Makert claimed in the Wall Street Journal 2006 that amalgam removal can be dangerous. I happen to agree because exposure to mercury both during placement and removal is enormous.
Point #4 Follow the law and protect the patients.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@woosailor There are numerous studies that should have more than suggested that mercury can cause neurological disorders as well as other medical disorders. It would be logical to avoid anything with mercury in it rather than hope that all the studies that have not been peer-reviewed are quackery. (if you'd like, look up "Amalgam Risk Assessment with Coverage of References up to 2005")
benwetherbee 1 year ago
This video ridiculously overestimates the dangers of silver amalgam removal
SEIDOKAN02 1 year ago
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SEIDOKAN02 1 year ago
Patients.....please recognize this alleged Dr Kennedy for what he is.....a very biased and inflammatory pitchman. Please do NOT rush out to replace any amalgams. He is NOT a scientist as he may claim to be but a modern day version of Chicken Little.
I have seen far too many patients frightened into spending money they do not have to line the pockets of dentists like him ( I am not proud that we are colleagues). "Perhaps" he means well and believes this stuff but I doubt it.
woosailor 1 year ago
@woosailor
As you can see dentists continue with their PR approach to law and science. . . First denigrate the source, all of the peer reviewed scientific research and the employee protection laws OSHA. Next tell an anecdotal story like patients frightened, then make unfounded claims of safety.
The fact remains that no one can legally open the amalgam mixing capsule without the protections shown in this video. No protections? Then they are breaking the law and harming you and their staff.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@woosailor
A reply from the alleged Dr. Kennedy. . .
As you will no doubt have noted the IAOMT logo is all over this video and in fact you can find the same video on the IAOMT's web page. So it is not merely my opinion I am showing but the consensus of the membership and the scientific advisory board (SAB) of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.
We have some of the best scientists on mercury toxicology on our SAB and not one sentence of the program has ever been refuted.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
If I can't legally open the amalgam mixing capsule, why is it for sale? Our government is so unbelievably restrictive when it comes to stuff like this and they don't do a thing. You do realize that there is still more amalgam being placed today than composite? Guess all the dental schools are clueless? Your "peer reviewed literature" is from a bunch of fruit cakes. My 150,000 dentist peers think its a shame to rip people off by scaring them into this crap...
DrScoles 1 year ago
"flee the area and return in space suits?' ROFL
DrScoles 1 year ago
@DrScoles
What do you think OSHA meant when they established the MCL of 100µg/m3 that is immediately hazardous to health, a MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS (MCL), never to be exceeded under any circumstances.
Don't you know anything but dogma you've heard somewhere years ago.
Learn the laws and stop breaking them. You cannot legally open the amalgam mixing capsule.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
Do you think the state would allow us to even think about removing amalgam without safeguards if there was a detectable amount of mercury? Again, why don't all the older dentists have mercury toxicity? They held and mixed it bare handed for decades.
DrScoles 1 year ago
@DrScoles
Actually the state demands that YOU measure your facility whenever it is reasonable to assume that exposure is likely.
CDA unsuccessfully tried your tactics, deny, deny, deny, and did you see how the board raked her over the coals and were astounded that every dentist was not in compliance with existing law in my vdieo "Poison in Your Dentists Office"?
As for some people being unaffected by mercury this is a well documented variation in genetics. My 98 YO father's a retired dentist.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds I don't want to get into an argument, but I agree with DrScoles. One study (name not known) found that the practice of anti-amalgism might be more harmful to the patient as suddenly playing around with implanted amalgam via mechanical methods may expose the patient to huge amounts in amalgam despite safety measures. The FDAeven warns against the practice of anti-amalgism. But like I said, despite what I mentioned, I remain neutral on this issue and want no part in this argument.
eBiology 1 year ago
@eBiology You're not accurate on the FDA but correct on the issue of the danger of exposing the patient to enormous amounts of elemental mercury vapor and respirable amalgam particles. One dentist poisoned in his practice the toxicologist estimated even greater exposure from the inhaled particles.
So think about this for a moment:
Hg advocates claim it is safe to put in but VERY DANGEROUS to remove.
I think it is a dangerous practice to implant a time-release mercury filling.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@eBiology
I am not trying to argue with my profession but sadly with 1005 removing amalgams I think caution is needed.
Placement of amalgam as well as removal has been shown in multiple studies (Snapp 1983, Molin 1990) to expose the patient to substantial amounts of mercury. Why is that OK?
Frykholm in 1957 using radioactive amalgam showed exposure both from placement and removal in humans and claimed that it was safe.
Not true because he did not measure safety only proved a big exposure.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@davidkennedydds Sorry, not the FDA, but the ADA* was the body that criticized the removal of amalgam. The ADA states that such removal is unethical and unnecessary. Also they claim that 'anti-amalgists' will be disciplined by means as far as license suspension and/or termination. I'm just relaying the information though, and remain neutral considering I want to specialize in orthopedic surgery which is much different from modern dentistry.
eBiology 1 year ago
@eBiology
What you are citing is the ADA's gag rule.
10 years ago they stated that, Based upon current scientific data, It is unethical for a dentist to recommend to removal of amalgams from non-allergic patient for the alleged purpose of removing a toxic substance.
EPA says it is hazardous waste.
The unethical Casa Pia study found harm to children 2010.
Monday the j. Alzheimer's Disease will publish a review study that firmly links AD to mercury.
ADA both held patents on amalgam and bias
davidkennedydds 1 year ago
@eBiology
Is it ethical for a trade association to accept money from manufacturers and then advocate license action against researchers that find their product leaks substantial amounts of mercury into rivers streams, blood brain breath?
The ADA claims to "owe no duty of care to the public" Tolhurst v ADA.
They accept funds from the profession and the manufacturers, install members in key government positions (FDA) and dental boards with unclean hands.
davidkennedydds 1 year ago