Health and Dentistry By Mrs Vera West

I think that dentists in Australia today have moved away from the amalgam fillings discussed below by Dr Mercola. In that respect, Australia may be ahead of the US in this area of health. Certainly, patients can request to have alternative fillings to amalgam, nice white ones rather than the ugly black amalgam, that just looks bad. The bigger issues now relate to root canal treatments. My one personal view, and this is not medical health advice, is that I never had root canal irrespective of the hypothesis that infections could still linger on, because of the cost. I got my infected teeth pulled, leaving for the great bulk of my life, big gaps in my mouth. But, I just got by with less teeth. In my opinion, teeth are greatly over-rated. Just my view, not having many left, at my long in the tooth age.

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“What's Lurking in Your Silver Fillings?

That 50% to 60% of Americans don’t know amalgam fillings are half mercury is no accident. The American Dental Association, an amalgam patent-holder, popularized the deceptive term "silver fillings" so consumers would think amalgam is made mainly of silver when actually it has twice as much mercury as silver.

Mercury is an incredibly potent neurotoxin; it doesn't take much to cause serious damage because it's an absolute poison. If you were to take the amount of mercury in a typical thermometer and put it in a small lake, that lake would be closed down due to environmental hazards.

Yet, amounts much higher than that are readily put into your mouth if you receive a "silver" amalgam dental filling, as the majority of material in the filling is actually mercury. Download your free copy of "Measurably Misleading" and learn how the dental industry is misleading consumers and why that's bad for American families and our planet.

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On root canal treatments:

https://www.naturalnews.com/040551_weston_price_foundation_root_canals_disease.html