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02 MAR 06

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DENTAL FILLINGS

An interesting question of health importance

Recently, an environmentalist asked:

"What is the fascination the dental profession has with toxic substances?" (toxic ‑ a poison)

"Fillings are often contaminated with well‑known toxins, mercury, aluminium, lead, arsenic and fluoride to name a few, and their entrenched, unmovable homage to their god, poisonous industrial waste product fluoride used to fluoridate drinking water supplies 'by compulsion'."

Dentists in copy‑cat style proudly advise patients that good dental fillings contain fluoride that automatically leak fluoride around the tooth and stops tooth decay.

Scientific aspects of these fillings, called Glass lonomers (GI's) are considered quite suspect relative to their toxic leakage into the mouth.

Manufacturing data on Glass Ionomer filling material is described as heating glass powder with cryolite (sodium aluminium fluoride) which acts as a flux (substance mixed with metal, etc., to promote fusion) and is believed to leak not only fluoride but aluminium, lead, arsenic, together with aluminium fluosilicates.

The same data shows freshly cured GI, released 215 p.p.m. Aluminium, 112 p.p.m. Fluoride and one brand of GI, at 100 p.p.m. Lead. (Eramos, Fraschin, 1998).

These are the kind of products claimed as safe for humans!

Time (covert) is the health factor governing dental use of materials like mercury fillings for 100 years, before health caution was officially recognised.

Mercury fillings have been replaced with GI material and one wonders how long they will "prosper" dentistry, with a possible similar future effect on humans.

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