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Mercury Dental Fillings: What the FDA and the ADA are not Telling You

6/16/2010 - Many in the natural health and wellness community were elated when, in 2008, the FDA reluctantly declared mercury-based fillings (usually called "amalgams" or "silver") to have neurotoxic effects on children.¹Then the Food and Drug Administration reversed itself a year later, when it declared...

FDA Declares Mercury Amalgam Fillings Safe for All

8/11/2009 - His mercury fillings were gray And he chewed on them every day. But the stuff reached his brain And it drove him insane Now he works for the FDA - by Mike Adams Any scientific credibility the FDA might have been clinging to in these last few years has now disintegrated with the agency's recent...

FDA Reluctantly Admits Mercury Fillings Have Neurotoxic Effects on Children

12/2/2008 - For the first time, the FDA has issued a warning that the mercury contained in silver dental fillings may pose neurological risks to children and pregnant women. "Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses," reads...

Mercury Fillings Shattered! FDA, ADA Conspiracy to Poison Children with Toxic Mercury Fillings Exposed in Groundbreaking Lawsuit

6/5/2008 - The FDA has, for decades, ridiculously insisted that mercury fillings pose no health threat whatsoever to children. While dismissing hundreds of studies showing a clear link between mercury amalgam fillings ("silver fillings") and disastrous neurological effects in the human body, the FDA denied the...

FDA Pressed by Lawsuit to Address Mercury Amalgam Safety

5/22/2008 - In 2006, a Zogby poll found that 76% of Americans were not aware that their "silver" dental fillings (amalgams) are composed of 50% mercury. The poll was sponsored by the Mercury Policy Project and funded by the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT). According to the IAOMT,...

Mercury in seafood? How about the mercury in your mouth! (opinion)

3/21/2007 - American consumers, it seems, are frequently warned about the mercury content of seafood. Even the FDA now warns pregnant women not to eat seafood due to its mercury content. But did you ever wonder about the health effects of all the mercury being put into the mouths of children and adults in the form...

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't

2/15/2007 - All of a sudden, everyone's talking about health care reform in the United States. From corporations like Wal-Mart to the newly-elected Democratic majority in the House, it seems that everyone -- business, government and the public -- recognizes our health care system is broken. And it is widely recognized...

FDA advisory panel says agency's decision on mercury fillings was "not reasonable"

9/11/2006 - -- A panel of government health advisors voted last week to reject the findings of a recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report that concluded mercury amalgam dental fillings are safe, citing the need for further study of the toxic metal's use in dentistry. In two 13-7 votes, the panel found...

FDA declares mercury fillings to be perfectly safe for human health

9/5/2006 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced that its review of 34 recent studies yielded "no significant new information" to change its position on allowing mercury amalgam fillings in dentistry. The FDA's review will be presented at an upcoming two-day meeting to discuss the safety...

Dentistry scams exposed: Mercury fillings and unnecessary dental surgery

6/9/2006 - Modern dentistry is a curious branch of conventional medicine, and like much of conventional medicine, it offers a strange mixture of both helping people (improving dental health) while harming them (filling cavities with mercury). Most dentists, like many doctors, believe in outrageous myths like the...

The Mad Hatter Syndrome: mercury and biological toxicity

1/6/2006 - The term "mad as a hatter" will forever be linked to the madcap milliner in Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice in Wonderland. But few actually know that the true origin of the saying relates to a disease peculiar to the hat making industry in the 1800s. A mercury solution was commonly used...

The mass poisoning of humanity: an exploration of human stupidity

6/13/2005 - As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that, we actually synthesize toxic chemicals and then...

How to get mercury fillings removed without exposing yourself to toxic mercury vapor

5/26/2005 - Here's a great idea: Let's take one of the most toxic elements on the periodic table and put it in people's mouths. That's exactly what dentists have been doing in the United States for decades, as they've been filling dental cavities with none other than mercury. Of course, they call them "silver"...