This btw is what I posted, whether or not they accept the comment remains to be seen.

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Despite all their proselytizing to the contrary, it should be clearly evident that the ADA knows little about dental health, or health in general. Any person that would recommend using a substance as poisonous mercury in the mouth or anywhere else in the body should never be permitted to call themselves Doctor.

After a dental incident in late 2006 which left me very ill, I was diagnosed with mercury poisoning. I was beginning to have difficulty walking, every bone in my body ached. I became extremely weak (Just a week hitherto the dental incident I was pumping weights at the gym and swimming laps on a regular basis) and now had a migraine headache for weeks on end which left me virtually incapacitated, unable to work and thus unable to provide much needed income for my family, which I have otherwise always been the main provider for. This incident caused every tooth in my mouth to hurt to the extent I feared I would lose all my teeth. My speech was slurring and I began having difficulty remembering things. I spent weeks in bed and was considering what to write in my last will and testament.

I did finally find a doctor who knew about these things. I began IV chelation and within weeks my bones stopped aching and my jaw/teeth aches subsided. I began to regain my muscle strength. My memory returned. I began to return to work.

It has been approximately 18 months now that I have been dealing still with the after effects of this mercury overload. I am generally as well as can be expected considering everything but still have recurring bouts of the mercury illness (aching bones/feet, general extreme fatigue, extreme constipation, migraine headaches, swollen lymph glands on the neck that wil not subside). It has been quite a (expensive and time consuming) battle of nutrition, chelating, and colon cleansing. I have had 3 teeth removed in the process and will have 4 or 5 more removed as well soon since the lymph glands refuse to get better. I never once in my life prior to this incident had swollen glands or earaches. I do still have some amalgam fillings and can clearly see now, in hindsight, that a number of minor mystery complaints I had prior to the dental incident are related to the amalgams in my mouth, which have otherwise been slowly creating the symptoms that the dental incident caused a full blown version of overnight.

Because of the ADA's stance on mercury amalgam. it has become clear to me over these past 19 months that dentists are both very poorly educated and poorly trained. In my case, I specifically requested that the dentist not use any mercury in filling work but he took the liberty to go ahead and use it anyway, quite sloppily. It has become evident to me that this is not a singular incident, that dentists will often use amalgam, even under composite fillings, when amalgam has not been requested by a patient, because of the reassurances of the ADA concerning mercury amalgam. Dentists are not trained to diagnose overall body health issues, they do not concern themselves with anything beyond the tooth and as a result I and many others suffer from their lack of education. They are not doctors and Dr. should not be part of their title since a (very) false sense of trust is therein created for the patient.

The mercury amalgam fillings in my mouth, now approximately 30-35 years old, have virtually destroyed every tooth they have been set in. My unfilled teeth, at the age of 48, are still in relatively fine shape all on their own. There are black pits and major fractures in every amalgam filled tooth, most of which were quite obviously never truly necessary but done as 'precautions' when I was a child. It is even amazing that all my siblings also have the exact same pattern of fillings by this dentist, as though they also each had the exact same cavities in the exact same teeth. It is a sham and a scam. My unfilled teeth suffer somewhat from the black pitting as well. Interestingly enough, at the height of my mercury illness and recurring bouts of it, my fingernails also will have the same black pitting occur that occurs on my teeth. You can make the connection yourself, as I have.

One other note. - Removing amalgam filling can be very expensive. this needs to be dealt with through legislation with a price cap. Since one of the reasons amalgam is placed is simple 'cost effectiveness' (without concern for the cost to one's overall health), removing amalgam safely and properly by so-called biological dentists should also be required to be cost effective. My dental incident was 19 months ago and I sit here still, with the very thing that made me ill in the first place, still in my mouth because after being so sick and unable to really work for months and then having to pay cash to the doctor (who I respect immensely) for the IV chelation, I am left unable to afford the exhorbitant fees of a well trained well informed dentist who would otherwise help me. I have chosen by now to simply pull the teeth, sad but true. Thank you, ADA, for my not so beautiful smile. Thank you, ADA, for the loss of my health. I cannot begin now, at this very moment, to tally the cost both financially and physically but restitution is long overdue and it pales to the 'cost effectiveness' of placing the amalgam fillings.