Do not have your fillings removed by just any dentist or instead of a small amount of mercury leaching into your body it will throw an overload of mercury into the body which can make the problem worse.  The dentist needs to know what he is doing when he removes the fillings.
(P.S. many vaccinations also contain mercury) 

http://www.amalgam.org
Many more great links

www.mercola.com/2001/jul/18/ada.htm
The ADA Misinformation on Mercury 

www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/indexa.html
Dental amalgam fillings page by Bernard Windham a Chemical Engineer 

www.algonet.se/~leif/FUSCIFCT.html
Scientifically Proven Facts about Mercury and Dental Amalgam 

www.algonet.se/~leif/AmFAQk07.html
Mercury Sources 

www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ucdhs/health/a-z24PeriodontalDisease/doc24causes.html
What Causes Periodontal Disease? 
 

Mercury from Amalgam Fillings: A Major Factor in Periondontal Disease and Oral Health Problems 
www.talkinternational.com/science/peridontal_disease.htm

www.bioprobe.com/index2.asp
Mercury: Periodontal Disease 

www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/ms.html
Is Mercury from Amalgam Fillings the most Common Cause of MS, ALS, AD, PD, SLE, RA, MCS, etc. 

www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/06.08.00/cremations-0023.html
Public calling for Crematories to remove amalgam fillings in teeth before cremating bodies. 
(toxic waste) 

www.ccrlab.com/testexpprof.htm
One of several compatibility tests available 

http://www.quackwatch.org
Has listed some blacklisted dentists who have gone against the ADA protocols - 
 

MERCURY FILLINGS AND HOW THEY DESTROY YOUR HEALTH!!!

Articles written by Dr. Deborah Baker-Racine©2000-2003
http://www.y2khealthanddetox.com

THE HISTORY OF HOW IT HAPPENED

Back in 1840, dentists formed the American Society of Dental Surgeons. Their members were required to sign pledges that they would NOT use mercury in the fillings they placed. There were even cases in New York in 1848 where dentists were fined for malpractice for using mercury in their filling material.

  Mercury was referred to as "quicksilver" in North American and in Europe was called "quacksalver" Therefore a "quack" was someone who pretends to cure disease and "salve" was an application for wounds. The term "quack" was first applied to anyone using mercury to cure skin diseases, e.g. the skin lesions associated with tertiary syphilis. The skin rash would disappear, but the disease went deeper into the organs and the nervous system and the person died a very painful death. The term was then used against dentists using mercury for the same reason, - using a poisonous substance to "cure" or fix decay.

Because of the internal feuds, a new dental organization was formed in 1859 – the American Dental Association (ADA). This body did NOT condemn the use of mercury, to the extreme now 140 years later; they try to crucify any dentist who tells his or her patients about the dangers of mercury! Many practitioners believe the ADA actually send undercover personnel into offices of practitioners who dare to speak the truth, to gather information against them and challenge their licenses.

If mercury is so safe, then why have whole countries such as Sweden, Germany, Denmark completely banned it? Some countries have even started to pay to have mercury replaced with resin fillings for its populace. Why can dentists not just throw it down the sink when they work, but have to treat it like the toxic waste it is, containerizing it and ridding of it by very stringent rules? Why have the governing bodies of dentistry in ANY country never been able to prove its safety?

Why in Canada was it politically manipulated to be exempt of the Medical Devices rulings for safety of anything implanted in the human body? 

MERCURY FACTS AND HEALTH CONCERNS.

Those "silver" fillings in your mouth are actually 50% or slightly more mercury. There is only about 35% silver in them along with 9% tin and 6% copper. The mercury is not inert or stable as you may have been told. In fact, every time you eat something acidic, hot or chew at all or brush your teeth, mercury gasses off directly into your system (80% of inhaled mercury goes to your lungs) and via your bloodstream, settles in various organs of the body, particularly the nervous system, liver, kidney, thyroid, pituitary, prostate, testes, ovaries and pancreas.

Studies by Clarkson (1998) and the World Health Organization related that one amalgam could release anywhere between 3-18 m gm/day of mercury. And yet, a Canadian conference suggested a Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for mercury of only 1 m gm/day for a person weighing about 150 pounds. People with more than 2-3 amalgams, therefore are above the occupationally exposed acceptable levels. In fact, in a study done by Dr. Mark Richardson of Ottawa, Canada at the request of Health and Welfare Canada, it was seen that any more than 3 amalgams in the head of an adult were akin to occupational exposure. In other words, gave off as much mercury as if the person worked in an occupation where they were exposed to mercury on a daily basis. 

In a study done on over 1300 patients, symptoms were reported which ranged from:

Then.you could very well be a victim of mercury toxicity precipitated by your mercury containing "silver" fillings!

On the next page is a chart of a study done on over 1500 people:
 

SYMPTOMATIC RELIEF AFTER AMALGAM REMOVAL

The statistics listed were compiled by the Foundation For Toxic Free Dentistry (FTTD) on 1569 patients from 6 different reports:

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SELECTED HEALTH SYMPTOM ANALYSIS OF 1569 PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER ELIMINATION OF THEIR MERCURY-CONTAINING DENTAL FILLINGS

COMMON SOURCES OF MERCURY

Mining, smelters, combustion of fossil fuel and refining of gold. 
Used in chloralkali industry in the production of chlorine and caustic soda containing products. 
Used in electrical industry, in production of thermometers and barometer, fluorescent tubes and alkaline batteries. 
Dental fillings (WHO 1991a)- the largest exposure to the world’s population for non-occupationally exposed people.
MECHANISMS OF TOXICITY

Mercury disrupts your body’s biochemistry and physiology in a number of ways:

Disturbances in the production of larger molecules such as proteins and the nucleic acids which are the core of DNA and RNA. 

Disruption in the balance of calcium…not good news when you consider how often we hear of people being diagnosed with osteoporosis. Another point in this area is that the liver and the kidney are two major organs effected by mercury and compromised in their ability to function under mercury’s influence. Vitamin D, which is produced in the skin, is augmented to the much more active hormone forms first by the liver, then the kidney. If their function has been debilitated, the conversion to the more active Vitamin D forms may not occur as well. These activated forms are essential for proper calcium uptake and utilization, hence another nail in the coffin of calcium balance. 

Free radical injury to the cells of the body, resulting in oxidative stress. What this means is that the free radicals, which are produced as a result of mercury’s interaction with the cell, result in cellular damage, particularly to the membranes of the cell. 

Many proteins need to have phosphorus derivatives attached to them, and mercury will get in the way of this. This may explain, at least to some degree, the incredible fatigue mercury patients experience. The molecule in your body responsible for energy –ATP- looses a phosphate group when you use it and becomes ADP. Then another phosphate must be added to "refurbish" it to ATP, so your body can reuse it and mercury gets in the way of this. 

The kidney is of great concern in mercury toxicity. In people who are occupationally exposed, studies have seen the incredible cell damage and protein leakage from the kidney. In the sensitive mercury patient with even just a few amalgam fillings, the same damage can be seen. The general public may show varying levels of this damage. The World Health Organization in 1991 concluded that urinary mercury of more than 100 m gm/gm creatinine (about 80 m gm/m3) or more increases the risk of neurological (tumour development) and protein in the urine leading to kidney damage. 

Research in the past few years, particularly from Europe has shown the devastating consequences mercury has on the effectiveness of the white blood cell of your immune system. It also can be part of the cause in autoimmune diseases such as the more serious arthritides, allergies, and some researchers believe, multiple sclerosis, lupus and Lou Gehrig’s disease. 

Mercury definitely has the ability to cross the placental membranes and so cause health disorders in the unborn child. In studies done by Marsh et al in 1981 and 1987, they showed that mothers with hair mercury levels of 70-640 m g/gm of hair during pregnancy have 30% increased risk of psychomotor and other neurological disorders in their infants. Even as low as 10-20 m g/gm can increase risk to 5% (WHO 1990).

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