Posted by Brainbeard on February 6, 2010, at 14:08:31
In reply to Re: The real truth about AMALGAM » conundrum, posted by bleauberry on February 6, 2010, at 10:13:22
I have a bunch of large amalgam fillings. I also had several amalgam fillings removed without any protective measures.
I would like to have the rest of them removed in a safe manner, but in the Netherlands where I live, there's practically noone who does it safely. I would have to travel abroad for that.
Ever since I know what I know now about amalgam, when an amalgam filling has to be removed, the only measures I take is washing my clothes afterwards and take a shower. Oh yeah, and I ask the dentist to use water, suck away the debris immediately and use the low speed drill when possible. That normally isn't possible. If I'd put charcoal under my tongue, they would sure think I was crazy. I AM crazy, as a matter of fact: all I know about amalgam and about endodontically treated teeth and NICO's only helps to fuel my anxiety and my neurosis. That makes it very complicated.
A rubber dam, by the way, is controversial in anti-amalgam circles: there is some evidence that it might lead to amalgam debris getting stuck in the jaw.
Amalgam fillings are probably not even the worst offenders when it comes to dental toxins. Root canal treated teeth may be far worse. I believe Dr. Meinig's point that root canal treeted teeth are practically impossible to seal off from bacterias that enter the tiny canals (tubula) that can't be filled and become anaerobic, meaning they mutate into bacterias that don't need oxygen; these anaerobic bacterias produce toxins that are worse than mustard gas. I believe it's true that the infections harboured by root canal treated teeth can lead to heart problems, cancer, arthritis and the like. Probably much more deadly than amalgam fillings, which I think lead to psychoneurological problems in the first place.
And then there are the NICO's - Neuralgia Inducing Cavitational Osteonecrosis. Area's of dead bone in the jaws, cavities in the jawbone, not visable on x-rays but detectable by ultrasonographic imaging, a technique only rarely available. These NICO's have been so called because they can cause facial pain, pain that doesn't seem to have any logical explanation. These jawbone cavities can be caused by any kind of trauma in the jaw where the blood flow is interrupted, i.e. root canal treatment, extraction, even local anaesthesia by itself.. These cavities can get infected in the same manner and with the same results as root canal treated teeth.
I'd like to get rid of both my amalgam fillings, and my root canal treated teeth (that have to be extracted along with cutting away part of the surrounding bone to avoid causing NICO's), and my NICO's, but it would cost me thousands of euro's that I don't have and I would have to travel abroad to get it done.
So right now, wether I like it or not, I'm stuck with the fillings and the root canal treated teeth and the NICO's.
Not everybody has the means to do much about it.
I cold stop drinking hot liquors and try to chew as little as possible, put all my food in a blender perhaps, rinse my teeth with tea tree oil instead of brushing them, avoid monitors and other electromagnetic fields (which stimulate mercury vapour release from amalgam fillings), but that's just not worth it for me. It would turn my life into an anxious hell.
I'm saving money to do something about the toxic burden in my mouth. But right now, I don't even have an income. I'm not sure if I'll ever get it done, because there are only a handful of people on the planet who can do it in a scientifically validated way, more or less (the rest are too much absorbed with the occult, which is not my kind of pie and which I'd avoid like the plague), so I may have to live with this burden until my death.
You can get old with amalgam fillings, that's for sure. And also with root canal treated teeth. My dad has a mouth full of amalgam. He's strong as a lion, but batshit crazy. My grandpa had several root canal treated teeth. He was healthy until in his eighties he began to have serious heart trouble, with heart stroke and all. The docs didn't think he would have lived today (which he does). By chance, if that's what you can call it, most of his root canal treated teeth had to be pulled. He hasn't had a stroke ever since.
I'm sure my mental problems have been greatly exacerbated by my loads of amalgam fillings and their replacement. In retrospect I can see that after every huge amalgam filling placed, my mental state further deteriorated. I also believe that the autistic natured mental problems I've been having since birth have at least in part been caused by the fact that my Mum also had huge amounts of amalgam fillings in her mouth when she was pregnant of me. The foetus is practically unprotected from mercury absorption. All my brothers and sisters also have mental disorders.
I'm glad my wife only has a few little amalgam fillings. I hope my daughter hasn't been affected as badly as I have. At least, now that amalgam has run out of favour with new dentistry, not because of its toxicity but because of its weaknesses as a dental material, I can be sure that my daughter will never have any amalgam fillings placed. That's a relief.
Who knows how much of the mental problems of our generation are due to mothers carrying many amalgam fillings in their mouth while pregnant.
To conclude this horribly long sermon, I'd like to say that the very fact that I have to put up with all this misery in my mouth, causing both mental and physical pain (chronic jaw pain, sometimes emanating towards my left eye and head) is one of the reasons for me to even be willing to use psychotropic medications.
Cheers. Have a glass of amalgam soda.
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