Walking into the average dental office can result in a mercury exposure that's approximately equivalent to having 19 amalgam fillings. Dr. Davis points out that mercury's burden on the body increases with age, and older dentists have median mercury urine levels about four times those of controls, as well as higher brain burdens. Dentists and dental personnel experience significantly higher levels of neurological, memory, mood and behavioral problems, which increase with years of exposure. Further, the homes of many dentists have been found to have high levels of mercury contamination, probably caused by the dentists bringing it home on shoes and clothes. And it gets even more grim.
Dentists have the highest rate of suicide of any profession.
They also suffer a high incidence of depression and memory disorders. The scientific truth is beginning to register with governments around the world and in the United States. In Sweden, it is against the law to use mercury amalgams. And in the summer of 2000, a judge in Maryland ruled that the state agency that regulates dentistry violated the law by prohibiting dentists from discussing the risks of amalgam with their patients. The first thing you have to recognize is that you have a medical problem.