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Possible Health Effects of Amalgam
and Other Dental Materials
Amalgam Ever since dentists started using amalgam fillings there has been an issue as to whether the mercury that is released from them causes health (pathophysiologic) problems.
www.amalgam.org
Common sources of ethylmercury
http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/diffdx/mercurysources.html
Bernie Windham is a chemical engineer working with the issue of risk assessment for the US government. He lives in Talhasshasse, Florida, and has written many review articles on the health risks of dental restoration materials, especially amalgam.
home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/
Kvicksilver A Swedish site dealing with the health effects of amalgam and other dental materials.
www.kvicksilver.org
Mercury Amalgam Toxicity Your next visit to the dentist may not be as innocent as you think
by Jim O'Brien, LE Magazine May 2001
www.lef.org/magazine/mag2001/may2001_report_mercury_1.html
TV Documentary In July 1994 BBC broadcast the Panorama documentary Poison in the mouth, made by Tom Mangold. It has never been shown again on TV.
www.the7thfire.com/Orca/poison_in_your_mouth.htm
Paul Engel has written an article in German about health improvement in 300 patients after amalgam replacement. Also in the articles section of our web site in English, French and German.
www.amalgam-info.ch/html/engel.html
Where to Find Literature on the Connection between Heavy Metals and Health
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
www.nlm.nih.gov
Akut is an NGO based in Luxembourg and working on environmental toxicology
and related health effects. In particular, AKUT currently works on
dental amalgam, electrosmog, air quality and indoor air pollution.
http://www.akut.lu
DAMS (dental amalgam mercury solutions) international mercury/amalgam/toxic
metals research & medical information
http://www.flcv.com/dams.html
Oral Pathology
Maxillofacial center This web site deals with the issue of pathophysiological changes in jaw bone and elsewhere in the oral cavity. Learn more about so called NICOs and their possible connections with patient health.
www.maxillofacialcenter.com
Heavy Metals and Autism
Feat (Families for Early Autism Treatment) is a non-profit organization of parents, educators, and other professionals dedicated to providing world-class Education, Advocacy, and Support for the Northern California Autism Community. Read about the possible connection between autistic disorders and heavy metals.
www.feat.org
Autism& mercury Discuss current issues related to the increasing incidence of autism & the potential link between excessive mercury exposure via thimerosal in infant vaccines. Topics include: mercury detoxification ("chelation"), mercury-related issues/news, and vaccination-related issues/news. Most members are parents of children with autism, Aspberger's, ADD, ADHD, PDD, PDD-NOS, SID, oppositional defiance disorder, apraxia, speech disorders, and/or other related symptoms.
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Autism-Mercury/
Dr Jane Hightower is a physician who became interested in the mercury issue many years ago when she was getting the same unspecific symptoms as her patients. The article is a review of the exposure to mercury from fish.
www.sfms.org
Heavy Metals and Neurological Disease
Dr Birgitta Brunes has worked with MS-treatment/rehabilitation since 1994. The doctors that work with her have personal experience of MS and arrange courses for patients. On her website she describes her MS-therory. Swedish and English website.
www.brunes.se/en
Metal-free Dentistry
Biological dentist Dagmar Magnusson was the first dentist in Sweden to work with biological dentistry. She's and expert in the field and recently opened her own clinic together with Yens-Jens Lansman on the Greek island Samos. (Web site in Swedish and English.)
www.biodent.nu
Courses in dental implantology Prof Sami Sandhaus has developed
world-leading bio- and immunocompatible dental materials. He also runs
the Forum Sévelin, a school opened to doctors and dentists wishing
to follow postgraduate classes with the aim of a specialized training
in oral rehabilitation.
www.forumsevelin.com
Metal-free dental implants Z-Systems develops state-of-the-art products for the dental market and this site is a platform for dentists, patients and companies working on zirconium oxide implants.
www.z-systems.de
Klinik Prof. Sailer is offering non-metallic biologic
dental and body implants in Zürich, Switzerland.
www.sailerclinic.com
The Academy of Integrative Medicine has put together some excellent information in German on why metals cause diseases. Dr Johann Lechner runs a Holistic Dentistry practice in Munich, and on his website he, among other things, discusses different diagnostic tests and his visions for metal-free dentistry.
www.zahnmetalle.de
www.dr-lechner.de
Biodenth is a Belgian research and study center on biological and holistic dentistry, lead by Dr Pascal Eppe. He also practices mercury-free dentistry.
www.biodenth.be
Mercury Free & Biological Dentists Find a dentist who works with metal-free materials close to where you live.
www.talkinternational.com
Dental Technology For highly sensitive patients, or those with proven metal allergy, there exist modern metal-free dental materials. Rainer Michel's dental laboratory has many years experience in the field of metal-free restorations. This site exists both in German and English.
www.dent-michel.de
The IAOMT is a network of dental, medical and research professionals
who seek to raise the standards of scientific biocompatibility in the
dental practice with information from the latest interdisciplinary research.
http://www.iaomt.org/
Mercury-free dentistry (website in French)
http://www.non-au-mercure-dentaire.org
Holistic dentistry (website in French)
http://www.dentnature.com
Toxicology of Metals
CERCLA This is the CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act) Priority List of Hazardous Substances which are assessed for risk to pose the most significant potential threat to human health due to their known or suspected toxicity and potential for human exposure.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cercla/99list.html
This protocol from Life Extension contains information about Symptoms Of Exposure And Toxicity
, Laboratory Testing And Diagnosis, Significance Of Individualized Treatment Regimens,
Gastrointestinal Decontamination, Treatment Regimes For Selected Heavy Metals, Preventing Heavy Metal Poisoning and Natural Therapies.
www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-156.shtml
Psychoneuroimmunology
Neuroendocrinology Letters On this website you can search for and read interesting articles about psychoneuroimmunology.
www.nel.edu
Prof. Michael Maes Psychoneuroimmunology is a hot field in modern medical research. At Prof. Michael Maes web sites you can learn more on how chronic inflammation causes depression and other psychiatric symptoms as well as multiple unspecific symptoms.
www.marquiswhoswho.net/MMAES/
users.skynet.be/crc.mh/
CFS
CFS Information International On this site you'll find more than 5000 files on CFS, fibromyalgia and overlapping syndromes.
www.cfids-cab.org/cfs-inform/
Orthopaedic implants
Valdemar Surin, retired from the Orthopaedic Department of the Central Hospital in Southern Sweden (Borås) has
created a website with information about hip and knee implants. He has a large section where he discusses the
problems that can arise when patients with metal allergy get metallic hip or knee implants.
www.totaljoints.info
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