Hello and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh
and today we are going
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to talk about your teeth.
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We are going to talk
about things they can damage you
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and what have
been put in your teeth.
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We are going to talk
about mercury and talk about
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whether or not this
is harmful or beneficial.
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I know for some this may
be a controversial subject
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but no one can really
say it is not important.
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To talk with us
today is Dr. Chester Clark.
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You been practicing in
gentle, not gentle, general
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dentistry for the last
one, 29 years? Dr. Clark: yes.
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And hopefully
gentle dentistry as well.
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That is my advertisement.
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Mackintosh: is that right?
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Gentle, general
dentistry, great.
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We are just glad that
you could join us and today's
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topic is something that
you feel strongly about.
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It is something you have
thought about for a while.
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How did you become aware
of potential problems with
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mercury and how
did you get into this?
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Well it is interesting,
there were a number of factors
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that led me to lose some
of my biases, you might say.
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I'm sure I was as biased
as most dentists are today.
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Mackintosh: meaning you
once stood by mercury fillings?
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Yes, the first nine
years of my practice I used
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mercury in filling teeth.
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So I was indoctrinated
and taught that they are safe
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and at this mercury is
bound up chemically in the
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material and does not come out.
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But some
interesting things happened.
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A colleague, a friend of
mine, said that he had a file of
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material on mercury.
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He wondered if I was
interested in seeing it.
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I said sure, and so
I read through that.
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I thought wow, this looked
like it could be significant.
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I actually called the Dental
Trade Association and asked
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them for their current
information that they could send
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me showing mercury
fillings were safe.
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So they sent me a whole lot
of information and as I read
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through that, I thought,
and perhaps my background in
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public health, epidemiology
helped me be a little more
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skeptical, I thought I couldn't
even find one study that
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proved mercury
amalgam fillings was safe.
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So it was just the thickness
of the material that they
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thought maybe they
could take to convince you.
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Well all the articles were
critiques of the science that
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showed there is
problems with mercury fillings.
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And so I thought,
something is missing here.
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There should be at least
one study that they could fund
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that would prove or
convince me that it was safe.
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But I did find that statement.
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So that is one thing to
look at studies and talking to a
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colleague, but
what about patients?
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Did any of the patients in
your practice lead you to think
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there were problems as well?
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Well it is interesting,
and that is probably another
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significant thing that the
Lord used to help open my eyes.
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There was a young man I
had seen in the first few years
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of my practice and I had
placed just a few small mercury
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fillings in his mouth.
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At this time it was
probably the early 80s, mid-80s.
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His mother called me and
she had read something in a
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Farm Magazine about
the possibility of mercury
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fillings
causing health problems.
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She said that her son
was disabled from some muscle
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problem, I don't recall if
I ever heard the diagnosis,
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if they had one.
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He wasn't able to work and
she said would you remove these
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fillings that you
put in a few years ago?
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Of course I was defensive
and I said, well you know the
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standard of care protects
me and I really don't have to
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do that, but as a Christian
I will do that since you
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asked me to do it.
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So he came in and I
removed his mercury fillings.
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Soon after that I learned
he was getting better and able
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to go back to work.
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I thought, you know, maybe
there is an association here.
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If it is even possible
that I am putting something in
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someone's body that could
cause a disability, then I'm
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going to think
twice about doing that.
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So you are very conscientious
and it kept you up at night.
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So how is it that the
mercury, it seems like teeth are
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not that big, it doesn't
seem like it would be much of
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a problem unless you
have really big teeth.
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How does the
mercury get from your teeth,
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in those
fillings, into the body?
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Into your
tissues? Mackintosh: Yes.
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There is a question like
I mentioned, we were taught
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in school that it is entirely
bound up and there is not
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a problem, but what actually
is happening, mercury is
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the only element that goes
for a solid-state to a gassy
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estate in one step
at body temperature.
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So at 98.6, or thereabouts,
these fillings that are
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actually 45 to 58% mercury
when they are placed initially
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in peoples mouths,
that mercury is sublimating,
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vaporizing 24 hours a day.
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Inside your mouth?
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Inside your mouth!
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Initially the Professional
Association said no,
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it doesn't happen.
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But there was some scientific
evidence that came out
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in the 80s, OSHA developed,
science developed a device
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called the Jerome Mercury Vapor
Analyzer that actually measures
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precisely the amount of mercury
in ambient air, in industry,
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and it can actually also
measure the mercury in each
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breath that you exhale.
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Mackintosh: it was proven
then that something was wrong?
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Yes it was very
obvious, they couldn't deny it.
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So then the argument became,
it's such a miniscule amount,
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it isn't significant.
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Do you have anything
you can show us about this?
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Actually a video that I
just acquired a few days ago,
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I mean a few weeks ago, is
a graphic illustration of what
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I have been saying now for
20 some years, since I stopped
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using mercury fillings, it
is called The Smoking Tooth
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Equals Poison Gas.
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Well let's look at that
now if we can and see what you
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are talking about here.
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so all mercury silver fillings
leak substantial amounts
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of mercury constantly.
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The amount increases with
stimulation and as a result
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mercury from fillings
produces the majority of human
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exposure to mercury.
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The International Academy
of Medicine and Toxicology is
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extremely concerned about
the antidotal claims of safety
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by manufacturers and
dental trade associations.
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They are at variance with
the published apparent view and
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scientific
evidence to the contrary.
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The precautionary principle
requires action once the
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possibility of harm exists.
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It does not require proof
beyond a shadow of a doubt that
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in the case of heavy
metal and xenophobic exposure is
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both nearly impossible and
unnecessary, in our opinion.
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What you are seeing is mercury
vapor coming off a 25 year
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old silver amalgam
filling in an extracted tooth.
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The background is a
phosphorescent screen.
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The mercury vapor absorbs
the florescent light and you can
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see it as a
shadow on the screen.
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This is mercury coming off
a filling that was dipped in
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water that is the same
temperature as the human body.
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This is a filling that was
rubbed with a pencil eraser
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for just a few seconds.
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Like going to the
hygienist and having
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her clean your teeth.
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These are not small amounts
of mercury, if you can see it,
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it is more than 1000 times
higher than the Environmental
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Protection Agency will
allow for the air we breathe.
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What about the last time
you went to the dentist and they
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drilled on your tooth?
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Here's the mercury
vapor every time you raise the
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temperature to 110° with
hot coffee, or warm water,
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or even chewed on.
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Mercury comes off fillings
every time you stimulate them.
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That stimulation causes
the mercury to continue to leak
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out of the fillings for an
hour and a half at a minimum.
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Wow, that is
quite a startling video.
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So let me just summarize it.
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When the mercury is in
there and it gets to body
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temperature, it
starts to escape.
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But if you increase
that by any kind of friction,
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or compression, or
it even gets worse.
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In other words, at all times,
even when you are sleeping,
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it is going to be vaporizing.
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Studies show the amount
of vapors, about 50 parts,
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50 micrograms per
cubic meter at rest.
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So any stimulation,
like chewing, hot coffee was
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mentioned, polishing or
of course grinding multiplies
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it many times, but it increases
the vaporization for up
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to 90 minutes, of
course it is tapering down then
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to the rest level.
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Other than that little
clip that the Environmental
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Protection Agency has certain
levels that they should be
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at and not above, this
is well above those levels.
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What does that do?
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Does it have a primary
tissue that it targets?
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What does it do, what
is the danger with it?
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The central nervous
system is the target tissue.
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In actuality mercury is
capable of damaging any cell
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in the body, but the
central nervous system is the
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primary target tissue.
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It does things like attaches
to cell membranes and makes
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those cell membranes more
permeable, we call that the
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Leaky Cell Syndrome.
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Mackintosh: the
danger and that is what?
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Well like in brain tissue,
it makes it more susceptible
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two other things that might
get into the cells and cause
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damage, possibly aluminum,
there is so many questionable
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things that we are not
sure of the linkage here.
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The effects on the central
nervous system is the issue.
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I can't think of a more
important tissue in the body,
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I mean the central nervous
system is the central nervous
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system, it's
like the headquarters.
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So mercury specifically
targets that and those cells
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begin to leak and makes them
more vulnerable for secondary
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problems of all types.
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We are talking to Dr. Chester
Clark, he is a dentist from
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Amity Arkansas and he has become
concerned about mercury fillings
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now don't rush away and
get them taken out right now.
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Look at the rest of the program
and you may want to think
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twice about that as you
listen to what the doctor has to
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say and when we come back
we will explore a little bit
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more about this
very important subject.
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Welcome back, we are talking
with Dr. Clark from Amity
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Arkansas and he is a dentist.
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He has a general practice
there and a few years ago he
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became concerned about
the fillings he was putting in
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peoples mouth, the
mercury content specifically.
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If you were with us for
the first half you saw an
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amazing video clip that
showed the vapor being given
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off and the mercury then
escaping from these fillings.
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This really concerned Dr. Clark.
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As you have looked at
that primary tissue that was
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affected was the
central nervous tissue which
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can cause real problems.
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One other question that I
want to ask is that you said
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this affects those tissues
but probably is related then
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to behaviors or things
that we normally would attribute
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to good functioning of
the central nervous system.
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Are there any behavioral
things that happen when
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you have mercury exposure?
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Yes, in fact there is a
lot of different things, but a
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book I read just recently
by a research scientist,
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Dr. Myron Wentz, he gave
this list of adverse behavioral
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affects from mercury fillings.
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He said, "inability to
make trivial decisions, resolve"
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"doubts, resist temptations,"
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"and perform
intellectual tasks. "
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That as a Christian tells
me if I had something in my
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body that is impairing my
ability to resist temptation,
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to resolve doubts, and to
perform intellectual tasks,
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that can be serious.
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Right, trivial decisions
and all these different things,
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so did he say anything
about why that happens,
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or how that happens?
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Oh yes, the whole book
covers the reasons why.
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There are many ways that
mercury affects the central
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nervous system as
well as other tissues.
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Now is mercury that
substance that you see in a
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thermometer or something?
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Dr. Clark: Yes!
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And it goes right through
the skin I think I heard once.
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It's kind of a, I don't
know if you want to say it, a
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weird little
chemical, or compound.
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It is one of the strongest
toxic materials that we know of
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in our world today actually.
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Are there any diseases,
you know we talked about
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behavioral things, but
are there any actual diseases
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that are caused
by mercury exposure?
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Yes, in fact a short
list that Dr. Wentz gives is
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depression, schizophrenia,
multiple sclerosis, Erythrism,
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which is abnormal irritability
of both cells and organs.
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ALS, I'm not sure if I want
to try to even pronounce that.
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These are diseases
that I don't treat.
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Some of them I can't pronounce.
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Alzheimer's
disease is also listed.
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These are also debilitating
diseases that attack
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the nervous system?
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Yes, and there is in his
book, he list a more complete
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list of other tissues as well.
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He lists 28 diseases
that research has shown to be
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related to mercury poisoning.
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Wow, so are dentists still
putting in mercury fillings?
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I'm ashamed to say, yes they
are and in fact an estimated
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this year 70
million amalgam fillings.
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Do you still put
fillings in people?
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No I stopped a
little over 20 years ago.
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So what do you put in
place of mercury fillings?
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We use composites, is a
white tooth colored material.
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And people still come
back to your practice?
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Not as often since
these fillings last longer.
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That is a good answer.
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So what, talk about the
physiology, the mechanism.
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What is happening inside.
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We have talked about the end
results with behavior and with
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disease, but talk to me
little bit about the physiology.
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Well one thing is there
are neuro transmitters, little
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chemicals in the brain
that in the nervous system,
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like acetylcholine that
helps to take the electrical
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impulses from one
nerve cell to another across
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the synaptic junction.
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In the presence of mercury
those are increased, it becomes
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more
acetylcholine it's more active.
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The end result is behavior
becomes more aggressive,
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violent, or erratic.
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That is because the impulses
aren't getting there so soon?
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In other words it comes to
the end of one and then right
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to the next, it rapidly
gets, is that's what happening?
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I'm not sure if there is
too much acetylcholine there,
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more than is needed.
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You said it is also
related to depression.
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Yes there are other
neurotransmitters such as
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noradrenalin, it is in an
excitatory neurotransmitter.
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It is suppressed by
mercury toxicity which deepens
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depressive states and
increases mood disorders.
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So in your patients, you
talk to the first half for those
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people just joining, about
this lady who read some things
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about farm animals and
then ask you to take the
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fillings out of her son.
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Have you had other patients
that you seen these kind of
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symptoms that you are
reading about, or describing?
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Have you seen these
kind of things reversed?
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Yes and probably one of the
most dramatic cases I remember
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that's seemed most closely
related to the central nervous
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system aberration, or
brain function was a lady who
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actually was a high
school classmate of mine.
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Who I was treating her
sons orthodontically, and she
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was driving a couple
hours to see me, so I didn't
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see her very often.
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After a few visits she
happened to mention that she had
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had these panic attacks,
she had been suffering from
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panic attacks
for like eight years.
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Actually, although she was
a registered nurse, had not
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been able to work
and was hardly able to
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function in the home.
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She was on high doses of
lithium to control it, just to
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get by, although at that
point I didn't know nearly as
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much as I know now.
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I suggested that maybe it
was related to her mercury
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fillings and so she
chose to come back and have me
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replace those mercury fillings.
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I saw her again about 6
months later and asked her
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how she was doing.
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Well, she didn't really
think she was doing much better,
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but she did admit that she
was only taking half as much
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lithium as she had
been six months earlier.
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I said well that sounds
like a pretty good step.
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The mercury in the brain
we know has a half-life of
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20 years, that means if
you take your mercury fillings
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out now I have no more
exposure to mercury, it will be
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20 years, in 20 years the
mercury in your brain will
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still be there in
half the amount as today.
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So I knew it was a slow
process for correcting this,
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especially something like
she had been experiencing.
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But a year later I
asked her how she was doing.
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She said she was
off lithium completely,
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in fact she was
back at work as a nurse.
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So these antidotal evidence
here has been very compelling
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to you in your practice?
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Yes, yes and almost every
week I have a similar experience
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of somebody telling
me something about them.
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In fact, just last week a
truck driver that I was seeing
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on an emergency basis.
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I had seen him about a
year before and removed half
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of his mercury fillings.
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He had some upper
and lower on one side.
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Just out of the blue he
said, Dr. Clark do you think
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there is any connection
between depression and those
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fillings you
took out of my teeth?
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I said, well yes, depression
is one of the most common
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and serious problems
with mercury fillings.
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He said, well since you,
since I've been coming to you
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I've had a whole
lot less depression.
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And he also said
I've had less anger.
00:22:00.95\00:22:03.61
He started to say don't
drink anymore, but then he said,
00:22:03.65\00:22:07.07
I backed up and said I do
drink a beer once in a while.
00:22:07.10\00:22:10.86
But implying that he doesn't
drink as much as he used to
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because he has improved.
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We have only taken out
half of his mercury fillings.
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So people than are beginning
to seek you out because of
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this or are there a lot
of dentist that are coming
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to this conclusion?
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Well there's
two questions there.
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Actually I have treated
patients, and since I stopped
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using mercury fillings and
understand a little bit more
00:22:35.55\00:22:38.19
about what some
people are going through.
00:22:38.22\00:22:40.63
I may not understand it but
I accept the fact they could be
00:22:40.66\00:22:45.67
experiencing some serious
things were as other dentist
00:22:45.70\00:22:48.78
or physician's may
say this is psychological,
00:22:48.81\00:22:52.18
or there is no
explanation for it.
00:22:52.22\00:22:54.09
These mercury fillings
are safe and it couldn't
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be related to them.
00:22:56.51\00:22:57.88
So I have had patients, probably
several patients a month from
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out-of-state that have
come to me to have the mercury
00:23:03.20\00:23:05.87
removed, but overall, thankfully
there is about one fourth
00:23:05.90\00:23:11.61
of the dentists now
in the United States are
00:23:11.65\00:23:13.91
not using mercury fillings.
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So they are seeing the
same kind of things you begin
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to see 20 years ago?
00:23:19.07\00:23:20.68
Well I'm not sure how much
of that, or just the public
00:23:20.71\00:23:25.07
demand is so much greater
for aesthetic looking fillings.
00:23:25.10\00:23:29.43
More people are hearing
about people that recovered
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from different
things after having their
00:23:33.69\00:23:36.58
amalgam fillings removed.
00:23:36.61\00:23:38.00
I mentioned that there will
be 70 million fillings placed
00:23:38.03\00:23:41.40
this year, that is actually
good news because just a few
00:23:41.44\00:23:44.78
years ago it was
100 million fillings.
00:23:44.81\00:23:47.13
So when you say aesthetically
placing this composite material,
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you use is white instead
of being a different color?
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Yes, yes it is so much better.
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It actually bonds to the
tooth structure and we don't
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have to remove as much
tooth structure in preparing
00:24:01.76\00:24:04.76
for them which
makes the teeth stronger.
00:24:04.79\00:24:07.91
It doesn't have a coefficient
of thermal expansion like
00:24:07.94\00:24:13.46
amalgam does,
the metal fillings.
00:24:13.50\00:24:15.68
If you take something hot
or something cold between a
00:24:15.72\00:24:19.73
something warm that you
drink or ice cream that you eat,
00:24:19.77\00:24:23.74
there could be a 60°
difference in temperature.
00:24:23.78\00:24:26.54
Metal is going to expand
and contract tremendously
00:24:26.57\00:24:30.20
more than a tooth structure
in those kind of changes.
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I see, so what about
Gold fillings, are those okay?
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I still use a lot of those too,
00:24:37.65\00:24:40.19
yes that is a good alternative.
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So that is a good alternative.
00:24:42.44\00:24:44.54
So go for the gold
or go for the composite?
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While there are times when
gold is indicated and times
00:24:47.21\00:24:53.46
when porcelain
is also indicated.
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So people that are watching
today, they are looking and
00:24:55.34\00:24:58.09
saying, hey look
I've got a mouthful.
00:24:58.13\00:25:00.90
I have all these fillings,
should they grab their hat
00:25:00.94\00:25:05.97
and coat and be
heading out the door at the
00:25:06.00\00:25:07.71
end of the program?
00:25:07.74\00:25:08.80
What counsel would
you give to someone?
00:25:08.83\00:25:11.12
Do they call
their dentist and say,
00:25:11.15\00:25:13.40
hey what are you doing to me?
00:25:13.44\00:25:15.14
Well on the contrary,
that is what we want to caution
00:25:15.18\00:25:19.37
against because they
need to think seriously about
00:25:19.41\00:25:23.53
this and do some studying
and learn a little more about
00:25:23.57\00:25:27.33
the mercury issue.
00:25:27.37\00:25:29.09
So they can know what to
say to their dentist when they
00:25:29.13\00:25:33.85
go to talk to him about it.
00:25:33.89\00:25:35.77
It doesn't necessarily
mean that your dentist is
00:25:42.22\00:25:44.21
a bad person.
00:25:44.24\00:25:45.43
Exactly.
00:25:45.46\00:25:46.59
He is probably an excellent
or she is an excellent.
00:25:46.63\00:25:49.17
I think more and more dentists
are going to be educated
00:25:49.21\00:25:52.41
in coming years as this
becomes more in the limelight.
00:25:52.44\00:25:56.57
Right now there's legislation
in Congress to ban the use
00:25:56.61\00:26:00.70
of mercury fillings.
00:26:00.73\00:26:01.81
Is that right!
00:26:01.84\00:26:03.04
Now you are Christian
clinician and you bring in the
00:26:03.08\00:26:08.76
spiritual in your
practice, is there some positive
00:26:08.79\00:26:12.60
thoughts, some spiritual
thought you want to bring
00:26:12.64\00:26:16.42
to us as you
close out this topic?
00:26:16.45\00:26:19.45
Actually yes, in Revelation
12:7 I find this statement.
00:26:19.49\00:26:24.50
"There was war in
heaven, Michael and his angels "
00:26:24.53\00:26:27.64
"fought against the
dragon, and the dragon fought"
00:26:27.68\00:26:30.76
"and his angels. "
00:26:30.79\00:26:32.80
In my humble thinking
this mercury issue is the
00:26:32.83\00:26:39.36
continuation of that war.
00:26:39.39\00:26:41.21
The devil is seeking to
destroy every person he can and
00:26:41.25\00:26:46.29
as a Christian I want to
make sure that I am not putting
00:26:46.33\00:26:51.33
anything in my body or someone
else's body that may impair
00:26:51.37\00:26:55.90
their ability to withstand
temptation, to fight against
00:26:55.93\00:27:00.00
the common problems that
we all have from day to day.
00:27:00.03\00:27:06.33
I want to be sure that
Jesus is fighting with me and
00:27:06.36\00:27:12.62
that I give Him
every advantage that
00:27:12.66\00:27:14.43
I can in this warfare.
00:27:14.46\00:27:16.20
So that research that you
talked about earlier where it
00:27:16.24\00:27:20.09
talks about even trivial
decisions and even the ability
00:27:20.13\00:27:23.99
to decide the right versus
wrong can be compromised by
00:27:24.02\00:27:27.85
exposure to mercury?
00:27:27.89\00:27:29.33
I believe so.
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Well thank you very much Dr.
Clark for being with us today
00:27:30.74\00:27:33.59
and really making us aware
of it, and I'm sure many people
00:27:33.63\00:27:36.44
that are watching
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00:27:36.48\00:27:38.71
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