I've been doing some informal research on "crazy dentists."

Here are two interesting web links:

http://www.jaronbs.com/dad.htm

A short account by a person whose father was a “crazy” dentist who eventually killed himself.




http://marigayle.blogspot.com/search/label/Dental%20Stories

A dental assistant’s recent blog about working with a crazy dentist:

Here’s an excerpt:

"Okay, as I've said [...] Dr has been having some crazy mood swings lately. Click on "dental stories" category for a full overview. Well, Monday, we had a meeting. As you will recall, the last meeting did not go so well. Monday's meeting, however, went very well. In fact, he apologized, kind of, for the previous week. He said he didn't remember hurting my feelings but that he didn't mean to-he was just trying to make me stretch. Well, not remembering that you hurt someone's feelings is a reflection of your personality, if you ask me...

I was going to post that things were going well again, but I'm glad I didn't because he was worse than EVER on Wednesday.

Let me give you a little background. I have only been a dental assistant for about a year. This Dr is the only one that I've worked for other than my internship (she was a crazy crazy dentist!). When I first interviewed with Dr, I told him that I wanted to work in the back of the office-you know, hands-on, but that I hadn't had much experience. He hired me on the pretense that I would start off in the front-paperwork, insurance info etc. and then he would train me to be in the back. Perfect."


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Where are all the other mercury-crazy dentists? They have got to be out there. If data could be obtained, maybe the federal healthcare adminsitrations and the new generation of
not-yet-poisoned dentists would respond! Many new dentists have already responded: by opening wholistic, mercury-free practices... and someone told me today that most dentists apparently rarely use mercury-amalgam these days... i don't know if that's true, though--it's news to me.

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Steve Martin as crazy dentist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEbEPlft6zY

Thanks for that, reminded me a someone.Steve is a wild and crazy guy himself.

Well, I'd say working around that stuff daily would have to do something to a person over time. I heard that there are dentists who have had to quit their job because of mercury vapor. Some were not able to enter a dental office again!

I know of a dentist who was very nice, but very gentle and quite timid. his old time assistant was just the same and both of them used to chew thier finger nails down to the quick. They were so nervous all the time. She was nice, but very emotional and shaky and he was just nervy. It may have been "them", but I often wonder whether working with mercury would do that to anybody however confident and strong.

A doctor in the US Dr paula Bickel (bickle?) talks to doctors/dentists on mercury toxicity. she is very well versed in this and she even admitted that when she address a conference of dentists, she has to dumb her speech down so they will be able to understand and take in details. That is not an insult to their intelligence, she said it's part and parcel of working with mercury and what it does to the mind and the way a person takes in information.

Kind of scary when you consider they are working on your teeth. I know that most dentists I have been in touch with, forget just about everything I have talked about and i have to constantly remind them.

My dental nurse at my primary school was awful. Extremely moody, cranky, and I just dreaded going to her. I wonder too, was she affected? They did test in my country about mercury and dental nurses and the results were very telling. About how many of them had miscarriages, psychological problems, reproductive problems, birth problems, the whole deal. It was far too prevalanet among them to dismiss it as being a coincidence.

And what good use was that info put towards?

Three-out-of-four dentists that my friends asked about the safety of amalgams hollered at them. Uncontrolled outbursts of anger is a "side-effect" of mercury toxicity.

what I don't understantd is most mercury free dentist will not use amalgam in there practice, but when they have to remove the amalgam to install the composites or other mercury free materials isn't this considered mercury exposure also ,unless they refuse to remove amalgam completly that is the only way they can truely be sure of no exposure ?

Absolutely. Teeth are porous and have a continual fluid flow through them. If amalgam is in the tooth, it will work its way out and into the body. Mercury should be completely removed. If a dentist does not do this, I would not consider them a serious candidate for my work.

Hope this helps.

The hollering could be mercury toxicity or lawsuit paranoia.

I believe it's some of both.