May 2, 2012: Karen Duff, researcher, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), 212 305 8790. I left a message on Karen’s phone: “But what causes the “malfunctioning protein?” There is a file/pile of information on the link between alzheimer’s and mercury poisoning from slow off-gasing of mercury from dental fillings over decades. I left my phone […]
From: Joseph Bourgault Sent: April-17-12 11:55 AM Subject: RE: Mercury Fillings re Obstacles to getting the use stopped Hi Sandra, Regarding the Issue of convincing our so called “Health Authorities”, i.e. Health Canada, from Banning Mercury Amalgam Dental Fillings few people have put more thought and more energy into understanding this Highly Harmful Situation than […]
Scroll to the bottom of the linked page. Short video. Dr. Boyd Haley, research on mercury off-gasing from “new” amalgam (more copper, less of the other metals that are mixed with the mercury). http://www.mercuryexposure.info/context/fda-amalgam-rule/iaomt-petition-for-reconsideration/iaomt-petition-for-reconsideration-references?tmpl=component&print=1
Powerful information. Synergistic toxicity. From the website “Safe Minds” (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury Induced Neurological Disorders“. Recommend: there is other excellent information on this website. With thanks to Daeran: Here are links to 1978 study on mice (Shubert et al. Combined Effects in Toxicology – A Rapid systematic Testing Procedure: Cadmium, Mercury & Lead. J. […]
Re: Dental amalgam, “Silver” fillings (which are really 50% mercury). “Amalgam – Facts, Fiction and Manipulation” Presentation by Dr. Nestor Shapka, President and Dr. David Warwick, IAOMT (International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology) Part 1 – unedited proceedings of the Mercury Jamboree, Saskatoon March 30-31, 2012. The higher resolution video is at: http://youtu.be/2hVbe1bBGww. If you […]
The history of the “go softly” approach in Canada is this: – 1996, Health Canada issues a request to every dentist in Canada: don’t use mercury fillings in children and pregnant women. Since then, more than a million children in Canada have had mercury fillings inserted. As a consequence of the 1996 action Canada has […]
Dear Ministers Kent and Aglukkaq, Canada’s Chief Dental Officer Dr. Peter Cooney appears to be in a serious conflict of interest by not only representing the Canadian government at the United Nations environmental treaty on mercury conference, but by also simultaneously representing the European-based World Dental Federation or Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI), a private trade […]
For the “Top Ten Reasons”, click on: www.toxicteeth.org (also copied below) Consumers for Dental Choice Top Ten Reasons to Support Mercury-Free Dentistry 1. Amalgam pollutes our environment Amalgam pollutes 1) water via dental clinic releases and human waste; 2) air via cremation, dental clinic emissions, sludge incineration, and respiration; and 3) land via landfills, burials, […]
There’s information in D’Arcy’s letter to officials, at http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=5163. The official website: http://www.unep.org/hazardoussubstances/Mercury/Negotiations/tabid/3320/Default.aspx [You are here: Mercury > Negotiations] The Negotiating Process In February 2009, the Governing Council of UNEP agreed on the need to develop a global legally binding instrument on mercury. The work to prepare this instrument is undertaken by an intergovernmental negotiating […]
With special thanks to Michael Bender at Mercury Policy. Mount the steeds! If we don’t, Canada might miss the battle altogether! . . . Seriously. Spread the word to as many as you can. Here’s what’s happening on the Mercury Fillings Front: TODAY: the launch in the U.S. of a new study. At the last-minute, it […]