if any one from those organizations or any one that can affect change is reading these posts, please stop using mercury amalgam fillings as a dental filler material , for humanities sake ,It has and is causing great heath related problems for so many ,there are many other materials to use that do not destroy so many lives , please get past the greed and do the right thing , for many of us here it is to late as we have already been poisoned by your actions and trying to correct it on our own .but you must think of the next generation .

please do the right thing

I would like to add to this. Please get rid of this junk neurotoxic metal out of dentistry altogether. There is NO need to continue using this when alternatives are available and it has already been banned in areas around the world, why is this not being done everywhere?

I can attest to the fact that this stuff DOES leach out of the amalgam and built up in my organs and tissues over many years until I finally succumbed. I had swelling in my legs, metallic taste, tremors, swollen tongue, cold body temperature, blue nails, horrific depression and suicidal thoughts, uncontrollably salivating and crying fits and spent many days bedridden. The symptoms I suffered were vast and a torture to me. I had dark grey discolouration of the gential area (where it should have been pink).

NO amount of medical intervention aided me, antidepressants the lot were pointless. Psychoanalysis was pointless. Anxiety group sessions - pointless. I was a poisoned mess!

The only thing that aided me somewhat was a good diet, but it did not remove the obvious symptoms of severe poisoning. Everytime I drank hot fluids of any kind (even just hot water) my symptoms would increase and I would even get uncontrollable giggling fits, wheezing in the lungs, etc. The same thing would occur when having a hot bath, as I breathed whatever was coming off my skin/teeth, I don't know.

Kind of like a sense of breathing in some kind of gas/vapor and wheezing because of it and the strange giggling spells.

I have suffered for most of my young life because of this stuff and eventually figured out in time this was the problem. I had my amalgams removed over a long time, but after the last were done, my body then attempted to DUMP the long storage of mercury that I had accummulated, which caused tremendous suffering of its own.

I aided this and sped it up with chelation, but it was a nightmare to detox. Finally after years of hell and rashes on the skin from detoxing, I started to heal and my mercury problems were becoming a thing of the past. I do not believe I ever "fully" recovered, but believe I was as healthy as I was going to get under the circumstances.

All that agony and to know none of it was ever necessary. My body simply could not deal with the uptake of mercury from amalgams daily and simply accummulated it until it finally caught up with me.. Composites are obviously NOT perfect either and I doubt any dental material is benign, but for the life of me I cannot understand why anybody would ever introduce a known neurotoxin into the oral environment, of ALL places where chewing, hot fluids, warmth, moisture take place daily. How on earth could anybody even think of such a thing? It makes no logical sense.

I can tell you now the stuff DOES come off amalgams, I could almost feel myself get an increased intake after drinking hot fluids and eating. Though it was there all the time, it just increased upon stimulation. This should never happen.

I am thankful to people like Andrew Cutler who have spent most of their lives helping others like myself and introducing safer and more tolerable chelation/detox protocols to get this horrific poison out of our tissues and organs. without people like him? I doubt I would be here now. His chelation protocol I believe saved my life! And the dark grey discolouration in the genital area also began to disappear after amalgam removal and chelation! along with many of the other distressing symptoms that I thought were permanent.

My health problems now are viral/infection related and no doubt I still have some mercury in me that remained, but at onetime I was recovering from this horrific illness. I have witnessed much suffering on the net from amalgam related toxicity and seen people financially crippled by trying to fix or reverse something that was not of their own making. Thankfully safe amalgam removal and proper chelation appears to be making a difference in people's lives, but not everybody is so lucky! It is a long hard struggle to even try and recover from this poison because of the damage it leaves behind, even after amalgams are removed.

I shake my head over the whole thing. When even a small amount of mercury can contaminate an entire lake, and here they are putting it into people's mouths, right under the nasal cavity and brain in a moist environment where there is almost constant heat and stimulation. It defies belief!