http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/734534
"December 18, 2010 — An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded this week that there are no huge scientific flaws in the agency's 2009 finding that mercury-based dental fillings, known as dental amalgam, are safe for adults and children aged 6 years and older."
Do you agree with the advisory panel?
"... there is no credible evidence ..."
I question this statement. Mercury is a well-documented and known neurotoxin. Minute quantities of mercury is also being used in the latest round of vaccinations for swine flu. Wouldn't it be more prudent to assume that dental fillings (and other mercury uses) are harmful and find credible evidence that it is safe?
Like all slow-release environmental toxins, how can we demonstrate that the increased incidents of neurological diseases are caused by these fillings? The people seem to be the real-time subjects of a massive experiment. So far, the rates are neurological diseases correlate with mercury and other heavy metal poisoning that the population has been exposed to over many decades.
The FDA seems to be engaged in plausible deniability game. Otherwise, dentists would be encouraged to remove these noxious fillings using well-established safety precautions.
"December 18, 2010 — An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded this week that there are no huge scientific flaws in the agency's 2009 finding that mercury-based dental fillings, known as dental amalgam, are safe for adults and children aged 6 years and older."
Do you agree with the advisory panel?
"... there is no credible evidence ..."
I question this statement. Mercury is a well-documented and known neurotoxin. Minute quantities of mercury is also being used in the latest round of vaccinations for swine flu. Wouldn't it be more prudent to assume that dental fillings (and other mercury uses) are harmful and find credible evidence that it is safe?
Like all slow-release environmental toxins, how can we demonstrate that the increased incidents of neurological diseases are caused by these fillings? The people seem to be the real-time subjects of a massive experiment. So far, the rates are neurological diseases correlate with mercury and other heavy metal poisoning that the population has been exposed to over many decades.
The FDA seems to be engaged in plausible deniability game. Otherwise, dentists would be encouraged to remove these noxious fillings using well-established safety precautions.