Doc's Pen Doc's Pen contains stories which dental patients have shared with Dr. Huggins. Dental Materials Are you interested in discovering more about some of the potentially hazardous effects of dental materials such as amalgams, crowns and the dental procedure root canal. Click to read about many materials and procedures used daily in dental practices. These items may be having a detrimental effect on your health. Health Problems Observations over the past 23 years of dealing with the mercury and other dental material toxicities have led me to believe that there is a connection between certain diseases and dental exposures, whatever the genetic predisposition .
Today there are many factors that impact on our health and can lead to disease.
One example is our soil. It is poor due to ignoring the wisdom of thousands of years of planting and restoring through composting. We substitute in its place chemical fertilizers. Chemicals supply part of the nurturing process necessary for plant growth, but cannot provide what bacteria do for the soil regenerative process. As a result, foods are partially deficient in the nutrients we need, leading to partially deficient building blocks, which are assembled finally as partially deficient, disease susceptible human beings.