Reply #9: Gov't Agencies have documented dental amalgam is largest source of mercury [View All]

[philb]

The Quackwatch people are known to be Quacks. Do you know what the original definition of quack came from. People who promoted the use of mercury- like the Quackwatch People.

But the U.S. Gov't and others say mercury is the most toxic substance that people commonly come in contact with.
The EPA health standard for mercury in wate is 2 parts per billion. You can find standards for mercury in air or food or etc. on the previously posted thread. The posted article leads to over 3000 peer-reviewed medical studies supporting its statements, most from the National Library of Medicine www.nlm.nih.gov/

There is no controversy regarding what is the largest source of mercury in most people- The World Health Organization and U.S. Dept. of Health, Agency for Toxic Substances and Desease Registry (ATSDR) both along with other gov't agencies have documented that dental amalgam is the largest source of mercury in people. This is due to the fact that mercury is a gas at room temperature and vaporizes constantly in the mouth, plus there is also galvanic conrosion caused by mixed metals in the mouth in an electrolyte- as any engineer, plumber, electrician, chemist,etc. knows. And its easy to measure both the mercury vapor in the mouth and the galvanic currents- using common equipment.
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/damspr1.html

and dentists and dental staff are documented to have occupational exposure with large exposures(double most people) and common adverse health effects http://www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/dental.html


and as I noted, dental amalgam is also the largest source in sewers,
in large part because people with dental amalgam get such large mercury exposures that they excrete on average 30 micrograms per day of mercury into home and work sewers. This is documented and verified by Municipal Sewer Agencies. And from the sewers its goes into water bodies, fish, etc. and into sewer sludge, which is all toxic with high levels of mercury(on average about 3 parts per million). And researchers from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have documented that most of the mercury in sewer sludge goes into the air as emissions whether land spread or landfilled, since soil bacteria methylate the mercury to methyl mercury, the kind found in fish, and the methyl mercury and mercury vapor is outgased mostly when the sun shines.
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/damspr2f.html

note these threads lead to a web site with over 3000 peer-reviewed medical and Gov't studies supporting all said here.
And the articles there have been peer-reviewed by well known experts and doctors who work in this field. and you can check out the references yourself in the National Library of Medicine web site noted above.