anything that mercury does besides break teeth and cause gum disease is beyond the scope of dental practice so they put together a joint panel of physicians and pharmaceutical panel and the dental panel explain to you the make up but listen very carefully to the ship of fools that they've invited to speak about the safety of them out of them there is one guy who supposedly represents the american academy of pediatrics the children's dentistry and he says it would be unethical to offer anything except mercury to children mercury damages children worse than adults and he says it's unethical to protect children from this intrusion are they insane or what you determine what you think when you see they cannot answer a single solitary question from the panel every question the panel asked they say i'll have to get back to you on that i'll look it up i'm not really sure on that sir they don't know anything and that's the truth thank you i am jo'burg i'm professor and chair of the department of pediatric dentistry at the university of washington in seattle washington prior to my current position i worked for nine years in the dental industry if there were evidence in peer reviewed of scholarly literature is to the negative effects of amalgam i can guarantee you that the many companies rushing to the markets touting this claim to advertise and sell vast quantities of alternative restored of materials such as glass on a murs or resin composites but because of adherence to scientific standards it would be unethical for any organization to claim the dental amalgam is unsafe as a restored material further it would be unethical a dentist to inform a patient's family that dental amalgam should not be used in any situation because due to the current higher cost of other restored to materials and techniques it could increase the treatment cost for a child's care based on all available research the a p t supports the continued use of dental amalgam as an important treatment option i thank you for the opportunity present these comments and i would be pleased to answer any and thank you very much i do have one question i have is your society or your this one symposium we have we had lots of scholarly papers have a characterize the exposure to as part of the written comments but i do not characterize the different amounts of different time periods might dorson regarding the range of distribution of mercury intake you say it's between one and five micrograms per day since one thousand nine hundred seven has anybody done studies to better characterize that range perhaps the full distribution or at least give us some probabilistic understanding of those numbers please i would  and the effects on children and not on the fetus with regard to sensitive populations and in particular feel exposures both agencies would have used the information and again i'm i'm just reporting information that was previously derived and i can i can help us find that information if you'd like in more detail members of the panel thank you on behalf of the american dental association for allowing us to provide these comments today i'm dr ronald sense a overall exposure right means average is standard deviations my understanding is that the component from dental amalgam is is a lower component of the overall mercury exposure also elemental mercury versus methylmercury which is a major concern dr goldman yes i think i'd love to see a copy of the chart in that and the fact sheet and a question and that is whether the eighty eight surveys its members about the use of different kinds of feelings and whether you have data that you gather on that we do refer them to the f d a from the standpoint of their surveillance activities we don't have a full registry registry by product related to adverse events though this battle is over classifying dental amalgam congress ordered the f d a to classify dental amalgam in one hundred seventy eight and they haven't done it yet they took the components and classified them as one for liquid mercury the deadly poison and the powder as to well that's insane they said they couldn't classify the whole thing because it was a reaction product made by the dentist in the office well there are lots of things that are made by the doctor in the office that are classified by the f d a unfortunately your health is not on their agenda have before you and given you a nice print out because we have so limited time we can't possibly cover what twenty years of research has accomplished but i will briefly summarize for you what the international cademy of all medicine toxicology has focused on for the last twenty years back in the one nine hundred eighty s the question was is there exposure and in the intake and body burden this has been demonstrated for over seventy years albert stock first demonstrated mercury vapor was coming off in one thousand nine hundred six it took another twenty twenty five year old set dental amalgam the touched in four places with a lot of time that pushed one pound per square inch that's a lot less and you hit with your teeth you see the droplets of murky on the surface of a twenty five year old filling that you heard this morning it was a empirical data they estimated the daily dose at seventeen micrograms you heard richard candidate that exceeds richard's canada's minimum risk level so pay attention we've got lots of numbers here intake mirka fillings and sheep you just heard about that you put them in monkeys you heard about that then you probably didn't hear about the autopsies of humans and they measured mercury in humans and they showed that the amount of mercury in humans is proportional to the number of fillings in their teeth no other factor and they had good controls and they said overall the results were better than neutron activation analysis by a four fold and the amount of mercury in their brains was proportional to the number of fillings in their teeth not the fish they so we've accomplished one to three exposure intake body burden let's go on about path physiology maternal fetal transfer into the vulnerable subsets ok fine worker from dental fillings in parachute kidneys in thirty days we had a sixty percent drop in the kidneys ability to clear in ulan we did not find the same thing in monkeys and we didn't know until they published the terrible an ethical katha peter mercury exposure study that it happens in children here's a study of children where they put two fillings in to start with and you can see they couldn't they doubled the amount of mercury coming out of the child's urine and about one filling more a year what happened in two years the mercury peak and then began to decline so at the end of seven years there is no statistical significant difference in the euro area mercury levels this group is relying entirely upon  levels to discredit the science showing mercury from fillings is harmful this study alone shows that you have damage that child's kidney exactly like we damage the sheep's kidney pathophysiology and summers couldn't afford to come here on her own but she's shown in repeated studies including her ph d thesis and now she's a professor in multiple studies that when you put market fillings in the teeth you select for antibiotic resistant organisms you have that paper before you your heard this morning couldn't find any mercury in the animals that he put work in fillings and here's a guy put mercury fillings in rats and finds it in the fetuses i think there might be a flaw in having a dental student do an experiment dr drash found it in the human fetuses which showed in animals that it happens it goes from the animal into the fetus and when you put a man every conceivable tissue in that fetus goes up but just like humans the fetal blood is almost twice as high as the maternal blood so when you do a risk assessment you can't use the mother's blood level you got to use cord blood one out of eight children in the united states are born today with a blood level of mercury that will cause neurological impairment where do you think it's coming from they looked at the ocean oh maybe it's the thing they looked at the sky it might be the air we've counted the fillings it's the fillings get over it and it also comes out in the milk the fetus is the sheep continue to be exposed to the maternal transfer of mercury from her teeth into the mil there are vulnerable subsets nobody's talked about that there's a genetic subset there non excrete years and they have extremely low levels of mercury in their urine their fingernails and their hair that's one of the studies that was supposedly discredited by the f d a white paper that we showed in children that were autistic they have almost no mercury in their hair regardless of the number of fillings in the mother's teeth in the controls the amount of mercury in the baby's hair what proportion of the number of fillings in the mother's teeth that should be of concern to everyone that wants to have healthy children there's another information so now we've got two subsets and a gene that represents probably less than five percent of the population what epidemiologist in this room thinks you can find a subset of the population when you have two genetic subsets with an epidemiologist that you're not going to find it so they were confused today you've asked over and over what's going on what's the dose nobody seems to be able to answer your questions maybe you have the wrong people talking to you is there a pathophysiology yes maternal fetal transfer yes subsets yes and the sad news is there is no evidence of benefit you hear over and over the risks outweigh the benefit or the benefits outweigh the risk blah blah blah in order to put the filling in the tooth you've got to drill away seventy five percent of the strength of that to do you know what happens then it breaks and then you need a crown or a root canal and has to be extracted factor that cost and don't tell me the cost of a piece of filling material tell me the cost of the damage amalgam is also linked to gum disease when you put a merkin filling the two that you lose a millimeter a bone around your tooth you want to do that that's what you're doing sixty six percent of took the extraction is because of gum disease you haven't even addressed that that's a proven consequence of mercury in your teeth and then there's the and i would say that i have no dog in this fight i had nothing but a hard core scientists to believe the numbers and measuring things in this first light is something that we do in the lab i teach at the university of kentucky called mercury science and politics freshman students do it and i would point out that if the mercury level came out as the as estimated by the american dental association you would not be able to see a vapor coming off an amalgam filling in this form we've also measured is some much more rigorous scientific ways in sealed containers and  tell people how much murky comes off of a one amount and spill hasn't been done why is it critically important if you take neurons and culture and you treat them to nana moeller that's ten to the minus one molar levels and in a study published in the jabba the journal the american  association they showed that the mercury in a brain of people with alzheimer's disease and certain controls is in the micro will arrange that's a thousand to ten thousand fold and higher level than cause merck that causes the neurons to die in culture it is important now i want to question the thing about the alzheimer's association that says mercury amalgams have no contribution to this disease this is a neuron and the neurons axon is held together by to be one this is disintegrated in alzheimer's disease and it is caused to be disintegrated and animals at sector that you exposed to mercury vapor and this slide shows the technology that we developed used eminently by you and i h even today to look at the g t p binding to two billon and what you can say is that mercury and only mercury will cause the same biochemical foetal in profile as you see in an alzheimer's disease brain lead won't do this copper won't do this nothing but mercury will do this if you take a dental amalgam and you soak it in water for just an hour you and you take a sample of that and you add it to the same brain homogenous you get exactly the same effect as if you're adding pure mercury to that system this indicates that americans do release toxic mercury and this murder if it gets into the brain can ca similar as you find in alzheimer's disease all of this data has been published in referee journals if you look at mercury in alzheimer's disease we say that merck has been shown to cause the following disorders it can produce nerve tangles it can well i would not make the claim that delamont cause alzheimer's disease i would absolutely state that anyone this carrying a significant number of americans for thirty forty or fifty years would cross that thin red line into alzheimer's dementia quicker if they had am fillings there is absolutely no doubt about that it is a toxin it has never been put into a biological system without it showing severe toxicity at the nana molar level it's all published in there's a protein called  elevated this has been i published this first it's been repeated now by two different groups it's considered one of the leading markers for alzheimer's disease if they get the diagnostic test reliable and what you can say is that mercury in only mercury one h so i'm at the levels we're talking about in addition to the glooming since the taste created kinase an enzyme that is well known to biochemist to be exquisitely sensitive to mercury is ninety five percent inhibited in alzheimer's disease brain it's been published in molecular brain research in the genetic susceptibility as mr burke talked about earlier they have beat this protein to death to try and find out why the able before is a risk factor you understand the second highest concentration in the body is in your to take mercury out of the brain out of the spinal fluid a publication from germany shows the blood flow of mercury is three times higher in eighty patients versus mash controls and this is the papers  unusual history is rejected by the journal the american medical association and the new england journal of medicine but it was published it had some conclusions that i disagree with but one of the conclusions i look at if you look at the level of the mercury and six percent to fifteen percent of these people they're in the ten to the minus six molar range if you measure the mercury in the brains of certain people that's a thousand to ten thousand fold times higher than is necessary to cause a neuron to die within a few minutes so you can't say that there isn't proof that mercury can't get in the brain and can cause problems and you have to ask the question where does this come from why does it only appear in certain people because these are all nuns that lived in the same convent ate the same food use the same dentist as far as i know that's the reason this study was do that way and you look at this and you say how come a certain percentage of these people can't keep mercury out of their brain and it's genetics this other disease if you passed that dilated cardiomyopathy that's the one we find the only high school athletes drop dead playing football happens every year you'll read about it several times they have one hundred seventy eight thousand four hundred mammograms merck reprogram a tissue as twenty two thousand times higher than the muscle tissue or as in the heart tissue of other people and why hasn't and i am sure the f d a jumped on this and say w does this mercury come from and how does this contribute to the disease is it the cause is that in exacerbating factor the other proof here's a paper that was in the white paper they talked about this had per person persons with two and a half years after a modern move had about the same level of mercury in their blood as those with existing m outcomes which was significantly much much higher than people who had never had a malcolm's before and what that's telling you is that the human body retains a lot of mercury doesn't go on a urine and feces it's retained when they  people using dr of a as a potion is technique the levels drop thirty to forty percent but within two hours it was back up now the the m p s takes it out on the urine so where did the market come in that replaced it with this paper shows absolutely that there is a high level of mercury retained in the human body and you can take it out of the blood for two or three hours when you quit it comes right back in because it's reviewed it will liberate and this is absolute proof that we have mercury stores in the body that we don't talk about you very much our next speaker or mrs mr and mrs michael and phyllis burke good morning everyone i'm michael burke this is my wife phyllis we have no financial contributors who was diagnosed on july twenty ninth two thousand and four with early onset alzheimer's disease by our traditional neurology m d this far into an attempt to save her life i have studied over three thousand plus hours on the subject it's my firm conviction that the bio cumulated mercury vapor coming off of one's mercury fillings over the course of many years is in fact the primary causative trigger for all timers disease alzheimer's disease is most prevalent in industrialized nations these are countries where dentistry using mercury amalgam fillings is common practice in  hundred three a groundbreaking study by duke university revealed that the presence of just one for gene significantly increases all timers risk and also lowers the age of onset my wife took a blood test and it confirmed her as being the worst case scenario  for for both her genes or fours according to dr boyd haley the unprotected vapo efore form has four argentina mino acids located on the potential mercury binding positions as opposed to the very protective or almost any other element in the sistine to present to protect about two and some i protect about three ourself are based amino acids and that's readily attract bind and excrete mercury on a continual basis twenty four seven and  up to status would easily explain why someone might be seventy years old and have a mouthful of amalgam fillings but never reach a state of intellectual compromise conversely there is absolutely no chemical affinity for mercury by the  for belief or genes only allow individuals to hyper bio cumulate mercury twenty four seven this more than adequately explains duke's previously mentioned findings every average diagnostic physiological change that occurs in the brain cells and neurons has been identically recreated by dr boyd haley and colleagues in strict laboratory settings by exposing live nerve cells to very low levels of mercury please know many other metals have been tested including aluminum none of them reproduced any of the hallmark diagnostic changes in my wife's particular case this next point is critical mercury fillings can and do carry electrical charges the higher the negative electrical charge the more mercury is being released from the am while having only two amount in fillings phillis had one filling that registered a negative three hundred sixty micrograms charge on a device called the right a meter specifically for measuring the charges on amalgam fillings i spoke personally to dr hal huggins and relayed this fact to him he has been incredulous with this belief he had never heard of seen anything remotely close to this high reading for a negative charge being registered on the mountain surface but he and dr boyd haley personally conveyed to me that because of this high negative electrical charge this particular malcolm was extremely toxic and it was giving off tremendous amounts of mercury dr huggins stated also that perhaps even in the form of more deadly methylmercury  i'd like to share a few items with you call it might reasonably be reasonably intelligent persons top ten list why mercury should not be used in dentistry and medicine and i'm going to skin to do a few of the highlights on this planet mercury is second only to the radioactive element plutonium and its ability to do neurological damage pink disease was from one the late eighty's to about one nine hundred fifty that killed thousands and thousands of babies worldwide when it was discovered finally reluctantly accepted in the hundred forty s early one nine hundred fifty s that mercury was in infant teething powders and it was in fact the cause of pink disease when they took it out no more babies died when a dentist tells your teeth with mercury here she must handle the excess scraps as a hazardous waste material in accordance with the e p a guidelines why then is the load of mercury left behind to weather the storm in turbulent conditions of your mouth any different what makes it so safe and special on the flipside of the coin you then become p a approved toxic waste receptacle study done in glasgow scotland evaluated one hundred eighty dennison one hundred eighty volunteers off the street the dentist as a group scored much lower on the cognitive memory issues as well as physically he food in burgundy a world leading him in no geneticists and biologists with nearly eight hundred fifty papers published in peer reviewed journals has reported that if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots in a ten year period his or her chances of getting all timers disease is ten times higher than if they had zero one or two shots he attributed this to mercury and aluminum present in vaccines the original dental association in the united states was called the american to society of dental surgeons they refused to use mercury amalgam fillings because they knew they were extremely toxic however because many dentists wanted a piece of the mercury amalgam financial pile they abandoned ship and started using mercury amalgams in patients as a result the american society of dental surgeons died on the vine in eight hundred fifty nine the eighty eight was formed from the same individuals initial statement of the eighty eight as regards the use of mercury in fillings was a compound with perfectly inert mercury does not leeching off or vaporize this is a statement was made with absolutely no scientific evidence to back it up either way they blatantly disregarded any and all caution as regards mercury one minute even in sober fillings was deceptive as by the composition the amount them contained a much higher mercury content and silver this was a foot in the door for mercury the american public trustingly an unknown unknowingly allowed a silently creeping monster into its every day world unfortunately subsequent well meaning dentists were also inherently desensitized by the status quo heavy metal toxic metals and soft pink human flesh are simply not compatible in conclusion i am asking him today to hear my message and do the right decent honorable god loving thing who needs to be in the media embargo upon the placement of mercury fillings in this country if not for everyone at least for pregnant women and children because they represent our we need to understand my wife has the worst case scenario yet it took thirty five to forty years to manifest as clearly puts the thank you very much for your studies into perspective thank you thank you so the f d a panel met and discussed and they voted thirteen to seven to say dental amalgam is not safe and what happened just two years later the same ship of fools said no no that panel was all wrong is perfectly safe and classified it as safe and effective in violation of the law and their own rules we've asked for a rehearing and in an unusually open process they actually have granted the i am tea and mark richardson who's done a recent risk assessment an opportunity to review their risk assessment there were twenty seven factual errors in their risk assessment i mean how can you get by with that kind of stuff all only in washington d c do you get to get away with that sort of stuff well we caught him we blew the whistle on him let's see if they act right