Posted by Larry Hoover on January 12, 2009, at 22:26:00
In reply to What's the deal with silver amalgams?, posted by HyperFocus on January 12, 2009, at 21:50:36
They should be called mercury amalgams, being 50% by weight mercury, with mercury being the solvent/liquid phase. Silver is seldom more than about 35% of the filling material.
If there is any left-over amalgam following a restoration, the dentist must, by law, treat the surplus material as toxic waste. The waste-water drains from those little sinks you rinse your mouth into must have mercury traps installed. If an amalgam is removed, it must be treated as toxic waste. Yet, we are to believe that while the substance is in our mouths, it's inert and non-toxic?
I did some serious research on the subject a couple of years back, and posted it in three different messages on Usenet: a) toxicology of mercury/amalgams; b) mercury content/exposure from amalgams; c) selenium as protection from mercury exposure.
http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.psychology.psychotherapy/msg/92271ed412bb241b?hl=en
http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.psychology.psychotherapy/msg/86d6230772883409?hl=en
http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.psychology.psychotherapy/msg/03d9f554c44ec76d?hl=enLar
poster:Larry Hoover
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