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Mercury Removal

A lot has been said about the use of mercury in filling materials in the past or present. My position on this is that of treating it as a toxic product, where there are far better materials to use today.
I follow a safe procedure in removing the mercury fillings from your teeth as per procedure from Dr. Hal Huggins.

  • We use a rubber dam that surrounds the tooth.
  • Copius amounts of water.
  • High volume aspiration (i.e. suction).
  • We remove the filling in the largest pieces possible in order to reduce unnecessary mecury vapour.
  • Use of O2 during the procedure.
  • With chelation immediately following the procedure.
  • The medical appointment is highly reccommended.

If the removal of the mercury fillings is for holistic reasons, the journey has really just begun. It will be necessary to see a homeopathic M.D. who can provide proper follow-up care. The safe removal of Mercury from teeth is the easiest part of your journey to better well being; I say this because Mercury attaches very strongly to nerve tissue, and enters the nucleus of a cell and is not removed easily. Mercury also crosses what is known as the blood-brain barrier - it goes right through to the brain via the blood.

I would therefore would refer the skills of two M.D's who are well trained in this area. Included below are their websites and contact information. I would encourage you to peruse the information they provide, to complete the full package of your body's care.

Dr. R.R. Johnson M.D. - Johnson's Holistix Clinic for Alternative Medicine.

I chose not to load this page with information on the toxicity of Mercury. I would rather refer you to the following two websites:

Dr. Hal Huggins - A pioneer in research in this area with a Masters degree in Immunology

Aside from the health related issues of Mercury, it makes your teeth black and can crack them. The expansion factor of Mercury is very predictable and invariably, upon removing large mercury fillings you will find damage to tooth structure including decay - just look at the following examples:

Before removal
Before amalgam was removed; note the use of the 'rubber dam' surrounding the tooth
After removal
After the amalgam was removed; note the decay in the tooth.

As a last word of caution, not all white filling materials are good, as they often contain formaldehydes. On the same note, gold alloys made for dentistry, can contain undesirable metals. To overcome these issues, a dental material sensitivity test can be done by having a serum blood sample taken at local medical lab then couried by Fed Ex to Peak Performance or Clifford Labs in Colorado. Their reports would indicate the least reactive materials, and our course of action would choose only from that category.

Should to cost be too great in this test, we can offer you materials that most often appear on the majority of tests. Welcome to the fabulous world of safe tooth-coloured enamel and gold restorations!

It is rather interesting to note, that in the latter 19th and early 20th century, there was a group of dentists who were against the use of Hg in the filling material. They lost their campaign to have it removed as a viable filling material, as local provincial and federal dental associations began to develop. This all happened, most likely, because Mercury fillings were inexpensive, easy to replace, and just as it is now, considered to be safe by the vast majority of dentists. It should be known to you as a reader, when the failed Franklin expedition (1846) was found, their bodies were found to contain extremely excessive amounts of heavy metals. What happened was that they took the cheapest bid for their food containers, where the solder used was unsafe and failed in keeping the food sealed. They basically suffered a painful and disorienting death. Cheaper is not better when deciding upon your health-related decisions!

As a conclusion, please read the following releases by the Federal Government of Canada. Try your own search and read the links for yourself, or a few from the dental organizations I'll leave you to interpret these statements for yourself.