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US Government Document Admits That Mercury Vapors From Silver Fillings
Exceeds
The Minimum Risk Levels Established By The US Department of Health & Human
Services!

The last issue of Health & Happiness Newsletterprovided the backround on the
controversial isssue of mercury fillings. As always controversies exist when
those who are in opposition are ignorant of the facts.

***The facts are now clear. Buried in the 351 page document Toxicological
Profile For Mercury (Update) May 1994 published by the US Department of
Health
& Human Services the scientific truth has finally been divulged.***

On page 125 of this document it states: "A report from the Committee to
Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs (CCEHRP) of the
Department
of Health and Human Services determined that 'measurement of mercury in
blood
among subjects with and without amalgam restorations... and subjects before
and
after amalgams were removed... provided the best estimates of daily intake
from
amalgam dental restorations. These values are in the range of 1-5 ug/day
(Dept.
of Human Health & Services 1993, page III-29). The chronic inhalation
Minimal
Risk Level is 0.014 ug/m3....The proposed acute Minimal Risk Level is 0.02
ug/m3. Thus, both MRL's are below estimated levels from dental amalgams.'"

According to the World Health Organization the general sources of mercury in
the body are: Breathed Air (.040 micrograms), Fish (2.34 micrograms),
Non-fish
food (.25 micrograms), Drinking-water .0035 micrograms), mercury vapor from
dental amalgams (3 to 17 micrograms).

*****The mercury vapor from dental amalgam
alone is a bigger source than all the other sources together.*******

In the book, Mercury Poisoning from Dental Amalgam - a Hazard to Human Brain
by
Patrick Stortebecker, M.D., Ph.D., is research by A Gura Knappwost et al
(p.132) which states that when mixed metals are present in the mouth, like
gold
crowns and amalgam fillings, a release of mercury occurs that is 10 times
higher when compared to amalgam fillings alone.

Several laboratories have established that mercury vapor is continuously
released from amalgam tooth fillings, and that the rate of release is
increased
immediately after chewing (7 to 9 micrograms) and tooth brushing (10
micrograms). Continuous chewing for 10 to 30 minutes results in a sustained
elevation of the oral mercury level which can run as high as 100 micrograms
or
more. Eventually these levels decline to a baseline level 90 minutes after
cessation of chewing (Vimy and Lorschreider: "Serial measurements of
intra-oral
air mercury: Estimation of daily dose from dental amalgam."J. Dent. Res 64,
1072-1075, 1985).

A microbial conversion of metallic or non-organic mercury into organic
mercurial compounds has been well known since the 1950's. Most strains of
Staphylococci, Streptococci, yeasts and Escherichia Coli (present in human
intestines) are able to convert metallic mercury into methyl mercury. Methyl
mercury is said to be 100 times more poisonous than elemental mercury. (Ely,
T.,"Methyl Mercury Poisoning in Fish and Human Beings," Modern Medicine,
Nov.
16, 1970, pp. 135-141.)

The studies found that the amount of mercury excreted in the urine
was proprotional to the number and size of fillings in the victim's mouth.
Moreover many oral habits such as chewing gum, clenching or grinding greatly
increased the amount of mercury released and absorbed.

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6. Amalgam Fillings Largest Source of Mercury by Far

Based on a number of studies in Sweden, the World Health Organization review
of
inorganic mercury in 1991 determined that mercury absorption is estimated to
be
approximately four times higher from amalgam fillings than from fish
consumption. Recent studies have confirmed this estimate and shown that the
amount absorbed can vary considerably from person to person.

7. Gold Crowns, Gum, Bruxism, Computer Monitors Increase Release of Mercury
Significantly

Gum chewing, bruxism (grinding of teeth), computer terminal exposure,
presence
of gold fillings or gold crowns (even if covering mercury fillings), teeth
brushing, braces and even chewing food cause the release of significantly
increased amounts of mercury from the fillings in one's teeth.

8. Cumulative Poison Builds Up in Organs

Mercury released from fillings builds up in the brain, kidneys, liver,
pituitary, adrenals and other parts of the body.