Hello, and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh.
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We're glad
you've joined us today.
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We're going to be
talking about your teeth today.
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Joining us in the studio
to talk about your teeth is
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Dr. Chester Clark.
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He's a dentist with
29 years of experience.
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Several years ago he
made a troubling discovery.
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First of all it was just
kind of an impression but now
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more science is coming to back
this up - actually a large body.
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And that is that the fillings
that many times are placed
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in teeth are mercury
based fillings, can cause real
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problems and this has really
concerned you over the last
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15-20 years hasn't it Doctor?
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It certainly has.
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Originally you had been
just like many other dentists.
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Taught in medical school
that these were fine and you've
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placed mercury based
fillings for 9, 10 years.
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That's right.
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And then you started to see a
little bit of evidence that this
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could cause problems.
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Yes.
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Now, how is it then, there's
mercury in these fillings,
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isn't it just all
bound together in a way that
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shouldn't be dangerous?
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That's exactly what I was taught
that it's chemically bound
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with the other metals,
copper, tin, zinc, and silver.
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Actually silver is
the largest component.
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But in ratio the
mercury is somewhere between
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45 and 58 percent mercury.
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So it is more than half.
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It's mostly mercury.
- It's mostly mercury.
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We now realize... I guess the
first observations were, if you
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take a mercury filling from
an extracted tooth that may be
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10 years old and you evaluate
the mercury they found that
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there was 20 to 30
percent less mercury.
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So where did it all go?
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That's the question.
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What happened to it?
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We began to suspicion
that maybe it is vaporizing.
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Escaping through vapor.
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When I have a filling put
in, it looks pretty solid.
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They show me a little mirror
in my mouth - I can't look
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inside my mouth without
mirror and it seems to be solid.
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How would it get out?
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Well, it goes through a process
we now know of sublimation,
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in fact mercury is the
only element that is a gas at
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body temperature.
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It will actually sublimate - go
from a solid to a gaseous state
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at a temperature of 98.6.
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Actually 80% of that gas
that escapes that we breath in
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enters the lungs
actually goes into the tissues.
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80%, is that right?
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Are you the first
person to figure this out?
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It seems like people would have
figured this out that at 98.6
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mercury was going
to turn into a gas.
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You would think so.
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Actually what's helped us a
lot in about 1985, the 1980's,
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an instrument was
developed called the
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Gerome Mercury Vapor Analyzer.
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That is an instrument that OSHA
uses to determine the mercury
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in ambient air in
industry that they use mercury.
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OSHA is the Occupational
Safety and Health Agency.
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And so they measure that
and they say, "You can't have
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mercury at this level
or else it's not safe. "
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If they use their little
meter on your mouth and you had
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20 fillings, would they
say, "Your mouth is not safe?"
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It certainly would indicate
so because the average number of
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fillings may be 4 to 6 fillings.
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A person would have about
50 micro grams per cubic meter.
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That's what the
analyzer would read out.
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That is their limit in
industrial air, ambient air is
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50 milligrams.
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So count your fillings at home.
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If you have more
than 4, you're a hazard.
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To yourself and
others, you got to be careful.
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You know, you have a graphic
that you're going to show us.
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Set this up to help those who
are watching actually visualize
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what you've been talking about.
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Explain the graphic and
then we'll take a look at it.
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I have been saying for 20 years
now that mercury is actually
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escaping from the
mercury fillings 24 hours a day.
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People look at me and they want
to believe me but they can't
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visualize it.
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Just a few weeks ago I acquired
a DVD that has this little clip
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that we're going to show
that actually helps us see the
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mercury escaping
from the fillings.
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So let's show that now
and then we'll talk about it.
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All mercury silver fillings
leaks substantial amounts of
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mercury constantly.
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The amount increases
with any kind of stimulation
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and as a result mercury from
fillings produces the majority
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of human exposure to mercury.
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The International Academy
of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
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is 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? scientific
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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 the shadow of a doubt.
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That in the case of heavy metal
and zed biotic exposure is both
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nearly impossible and
unnecessary in our opinion.
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What you're seeing is mercury
vapor coming off a 25 year old
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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's 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 -
like going to the hygienist and
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having her clean your teeth.
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These are not
small amounts of mercury.
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If you can see it, it's more
than 1,000 times higher than
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the Environmental Protection
Agency will allow for the air
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that we breath.
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What about the last time
you went to the dentist and they
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drilled on your teeth.
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Here is the mercury vapor every
time you raise the temperature
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to 110 degrees with
hot coffee or warm water
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or even chewed on it.
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Mercury comes off fillings
every time you stimulate them.
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And that stimulation causes the
mercury to continue to leak out
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of the fillings for an
hour and a half at a minimum.
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That's amazing, a very
graphic depiction of what
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you've been saying.
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You know they said if you
can see it, it was a 1,000 times
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more than the Environmental
Protection Agency would allow.
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Yes.
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So if you can see that vapor
arising then you would never
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allow that in a
work place environment.
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Well, see the
requirements for OSHA and the
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Environmental Protection
Agency are quite different.
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OSHA says 50 parts per million
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and 50 micro
grams per cubic meter.
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EPA, Environmental Protection
Agency, they say. 3 milligrams.
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So it's quite a bit less.
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Did I understand that clip
correctly to say this was a
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tooth that had been
extracted after 25 years?
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Yes, the filling
was 25 years old.
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25 years old and it's still
giving off that much vapor off.
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Well, you know, you talk about
mercury coming in different
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forms - solid, gas, or whatever.
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You call this the
three costumes of mercury.
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Tell us about that.
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Actually mercury... what we're
seeing coming off that tooth is
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elemental mercury.
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It's just un-reacted mercury.
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There is two
other forms of mercury.
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You've got the ionic mercury
which is after it has combined
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with some other
element in the body.
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And then you got
organic which has a
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carbon molecule
combined with it.
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I think you have a graphic
depicting this, don't you?
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Yes.
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These graphics show on
the left is the mercury vapor.
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The actual what
you're seeing coming off.
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And it shows what tissues
that it will impact - the brain,
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lungs, and reproductive organs.
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The ionic mercury includes a
few more - the liver, kidneys,
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and intestines.
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The methyl mercury, that is
actually a consequence of the
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mercury that goes
into your GI track.
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The bacteria there take that
elemental mercury and bond it
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with the CH3 compound methyl
and it's called Methyl Mercury.
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You can see it is even more
neuro-toxic, it effects more
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tissues than the others.
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The last part of that graphic
showed a composite of all three.
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So that's what happens when
you introduce elemental mercury.
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It just starts to combine
with other elements in the body
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and the effects
gets worse and worse.
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Yes.
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That's what you're suggesting?
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Yes, in fact there are what I
consider four paths to pathology
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of this mercury.
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First we have the vapor coming
off and forming a chemical
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reactions.
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The methylation would be
the second pathway to pathology.
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And then one thing we will
talk about on another program is
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the electricity that's
generated by these fillings.
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And then the fourth pathway
is how it gets actually into the
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nerve through the
bottom of the tooth.
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Ok, so there's four different
ways that it causes damage.
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If you're watching you should
maybe not even watch the rest
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of the program, just go
get your fillings taken out.
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Is that what you're saying?
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Well, I would encourage caution
in anything like that because
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there are some hazards that
people can experience if the
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mercury fillings are
not removed properly.
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Ok, so in other words, if you've
got a bomb... the bomb squad
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comes up, they don't just
go out and run take it out.
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They're very
deliberate about what they do.
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If there is a problem
with it you've got to be
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very cautious about it.
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That's right and it depends
on how many years those fillings
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have been in someone's mouth.
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If they're fairly resent
and they're in good health,
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a younger person probably
would not have a problem
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with having them removed.
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But it is much safer to do
it with the proper precautions -
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rubber dammed, isolate the teeth
so the grindings don't come in
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contact with the mouth, air
vacuum or oxygen over the nose
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to prevent the
patient from breathing that
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initial mercury vapor.
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So there's a procedure.
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You need to go to someone
that knows about that if you're
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going to get those out.
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Now you have a graphic of a
tooth that I think you're going
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to describe here how
this escapes in another way.
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Yes, this shows mercury
coming off the surface in three
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different forms, the mercury
vapor, the ionic mercury, and
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methyl mercury as
we talked about before.
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But it also demonstrates
the axonal transport through the
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trigeminal nerve and that's
on the lower teeth at least
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where you have mercury that
actually comes through the tooth
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and gets into the nerve
and then travels through
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nerve tissue
actually to the brain.
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And that's at the
bottom part of the graphic.
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The ionic is at the top.
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Methyl mercury
that's what actually happens
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in the intestines.
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There are some
bacteria in the mouth that can
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methylate the mercury as well.
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So this graphic is really
showing how to escape through
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the nerve going down from
the top of the tooth to the
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bottom of the
tooth into the nerve.
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Yes, because many times people
have crowns put on a tooth
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and that covers the filling
pretty much completely where
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you won't have that vapor coming
off, but you do still have
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exposure to mercury
through that axonal transport.
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The way that was discovered
or verified was that a number of
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autopsies were done on people
that had mercury under gold
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or porcelain crowns.
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They found two to three times
the level of mercury in the
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tissue underneath those
teeth that had mercury in them.
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We're talking
with Dr. Chester Clark.
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We're talking about
mercury in fillings.
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We've seen that it
can be more dangerous than
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originally thought.
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When we come back we're
going to continue looking
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Welcome back.
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We're talking
with Dr. Chester Clark.
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He's a dentist who has been
practicing for almost 30 years.
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And for the last 20 years
he's had a concern about mercury
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that's used in
many of the fillings.
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In fact, isn't it correct
doctor, most the fillings
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are usually mercury
based even now in this country?
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Unfortunately, something like
70,000 mercury fillings will be
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placed this year.
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So a lot of people still getting
these even though it's lessoning
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because of the increased
information that you're bringing
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out, not you're bringing
out, but others have brought out
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and you're reporting on.
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Isn't that right?
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Yes, just a few years ago it
was 100,000 fillings per year.
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We've talked today about
the three different costumes
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of mercury and how it can get
into the body in different ways,
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the problems it can cause going
to the central nervous system
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and into the intestinal system,
the GI track and other things.
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Is there any other way that
mercury can get in aside from
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what we've mentioned and that
being coming down through the
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bottom of the tooth or
vapor coming out of the top
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of the tooth if there's not a
crown, is there any other way?
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Yes, in fact it's been shown
that this mercury can actually
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go through the mucosa of
the palate, especially with
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children, which is softer
and will penetrate through the
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palette and through the
bony plate at the roof of the
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nasal cavity and from there it
is directly into nerve tissue.
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It seems like in children
the pituitary gland is a special
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target that can effect...
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The soft palate, that's the
part of the top of your mouth,
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is that what
you're talking about?
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And it can actually go through
there and especially when it's
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not really
developed like in kids?
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Yes.
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Ok, well that's again.
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Mercury then goes where?
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Much of it goes into the lungs
and directly into the blood
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stream and then through saliva
to the GI track it's swallowed.
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It's interesting, though, that
what goes into the lungs and
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directly into the blood stream
it doesn't stay in the blood
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very long.
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This is one argument that many
have had because they do blood
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evaluations and often even urine
evaluations and they find little
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if any mercury there.
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So they say there's no
body burden of mercury.
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But mercury has the ability
to get into cells quite quickly
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It will compete with
oxygen and hemoglobin,
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the oxygen carrying cells.
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It also penetrates cell
membranes and attaches to
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proteins on cell membranes and
makes those cells more permeable
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to other toxins.
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Ok, so it goes right into cells
and kind of makes the cell wall
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not as able to protect against
other things that could come in?
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Yes.
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This bacteria in the intestines
is able to take the elemental
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mercury and combine it
with methyl which forms
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methyl mercury.
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It is estimated that methyl
mercury is as much as 100 times
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more neuro-toxic
than mercury by itself.
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This reminds me of a
story I read years ago about an
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experience in
Minamata Bay, Japan.
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There seemed to be developing
some serious neurological
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problems among the
women and children and
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in fact others as well.
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Many people were dying of these
strange neurological problems.
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It took them years and years
to find that it was an industry
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dumping mercury into the bay.
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The fish in that bay
were Methylating that mercury
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and people were eating
methyl mercury in the fish
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which was their staple diet.
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Unfortunately, it took another
10 years before the government
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was able to stop the process.
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But many people died and
much suffering because of
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methyl mercury.
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Getting into the GI
track because they were
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eating the fish.
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Yes.
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Wow.
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So the same thing can be a
risk or hazard if you have this
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mercury in any form in your
body, presumably since we're
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talking to a dentist,
in the fillings as well.
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Do you have any stories
or experiences that you could
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share about what's happened
in your practice or others
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as a result of this?
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Well, yes I could
tell a lot of stories.
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But just thinking in terms
of those that maybe related to
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GI disturbances.
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Chromes disease is a syndrome
or disease that effects the
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stomach and intestines.
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Often in young people they have
a lot of gastric disturbances
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and pain in the abdomen
and frequently sleep a lot.
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I remember a case
I had 15 years ago.
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A young lady came from
Texas that was diagnosed with
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Chromes disease.
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She would come home from school,
her mother said, and just sleep
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almost all the rest of the day.
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When she ate she
would have abdominal pain.
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I examined her and
found only 4 or 5 very small
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amalgam fillings.
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I removed the fillings on one
side of her mouth the first time
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I saw her.
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She came back a few weeks
later and I asked the mother
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how she was doing and she
said, "She is much improved. "
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Then we removed the rest of
her mercury fillings and a later
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contacted I learned that
she had totally recovered
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and had no symptoms.
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So there seemed to be, at
least in that particular case,
00:21:42.43\00:21:46.35
a connection
between removing the mercury
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and Crone's disease.
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Yes, and there seems
to be a lot of correlation
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with immune diseases.
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I had a nurse in my office just
the other day and I actually
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showed her the
Smoking Tooth video.
00:22:01.10\00:22:02.66
She looked at that and she
immediately said, "That is why,"
00:22:02.70\00:22:06.33
she works in a doctor's office,
"That is why we're diagnosing
00:22:06.36\00:22:09.96
so many immune
problems nowadays. "
00:22:09.99\00:22:12.91
She made that
immediate connection.
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I found right out here in
the lobby of the studio here...
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I found a book yesterday that
someone said it's been there
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several months.
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It's entitled "Solving the
Puzzle of Mystery Syndromes
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Are Your Amalgam
Fillings the Missing Piece?"
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This is published by the
00:22:32.26\00:22:33.93
Dental Amalgam
Mercury Syndrome Organization
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DAMS for short.
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I've subscribed to their
newsletter for years but had
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never seen this little book.
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It looks like it
was published in 2000.
00:22:43.64\00:22:45.50
But just for a little
illustration - some of the
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things they have experiences
with here that patients have
00:22:48.59\00:22:53.89
written testimonials
of recovering from - I see
00:22:53.92\00:22:57.03
headaches, fatigue, colitis,
depression, multiple sclerosis,
00:22:57.07\00:23:04.38
lupus, mal-digestion, chemical
sensitivities, insomnia,
00:23:04.41\00:23:11.78
miscarriages, muscle spasms,
anorexia, nervosa, paralysis,
00:23:11.81\00:23:19.01
sinus problems, emotional
and mental disorders, chronic
00:23:19.04\00:23:24.00
infections, endometriosis,
allergies, headaches and it just
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goes on and on.
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And these are all problem
syndromes that people are
00:23:29.96\00:23:35.97
experiencing that they found
relieve from after removing
00:23:36.01\00:23:40.44
their mercury fillings.
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Well I can see why you would
be so passionate about this.
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Have you had many people that
have come back to have their
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fillings that maybe you've put
in or others put in, removed?
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Do you do a lot of
that in your practice?
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I do a fair amount.
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I have a very busy practice.
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We see a lot of children.
00:24:00.98\00:24:02.39
But probably, maybe one
to three patients a week
00:24:02.43\00:24:07.98
are coming for mercury removal.
00:24:08.02\00:24:10.65
Are there many other dentists
across the country that are
00:24:10.68\00:24:13.58
doing mercury
removal type procedures?
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Well, every dentist
does mercury removal.
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Because they
take out old fillings.
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They take out these fillings,
in fact, although they don't
00:24:21.54\00:24:24.82
tell you, and I didn't when
I was placing them, that these
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fillings are only supposed
to last 10 years and then they
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need to be replaced.
00:24:30.54\00:24:31.64
Because they go
through a process called
00:24:31.68\00:24:34.09
"creep and flow. "
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They actually change
dimensions in the tooth.
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In about 8 to 10 years we
will see a dark line developing
00:24:37.42\00:24:42.50
around those old fillings.
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If there's a space that you can
see, you know there's room for
00:24:45.75\00:24:49.80
a lot of bacteria
to get under there.
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That allows re-current decay.
00:24:51.78\00:24:54.70
Often times there, besides
the space, they're actually
00:24:54.73\00:24:58.93
expanding especially
with temperature changes.
00:24:58.97\00:25:03.19
They will expand and
break the tooth apart.
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And of course
that requires a crown
00:25:07.45\00:25:09.58
which is good for our
business. - laughter -
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What I was starting to say was
that these fillings need to be
00:25:13.31\00:25:18.20
replaced and so many
dentists replace them routinely,
00:25:18.23\00:25:22.51
and just put more
mercury fillings in them.
00:25:22.54\00:25:24.32
Now they may replace them, but
do many of them know the hazards
00:25:24.35\00:25:28.01
of mercury and are they careful,
like you said earlier, in how
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they remove those?
00:25:31.69\00:25:32.66
Not generally unless
they've been familiar with some
00:25:32.69\00:25:37.57
of the studies and
information from the IAONT.
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So your recommendation if
you were having fillings removed
00:25:41.65\00:25:45.00
someone's doing that, would be
to check with a dentist that's
00:25:45.04\00:25:48.33
familiar with this kind of
evidence that you're presenting
00:25:48.36\00:25:51.62
and then would take
the advisable precautions.
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Yes, and learn the
techniques that the
00:25:55.88\00:26:00.34
International Association
of World Medicine of Toxicology
00:26:00.38\00:26:03.30
has developed that
minimize the exposure to mercury
00:26:03.34\00:26:07.31
during this process.
00:26:07.35\00:26:08.37
What would you say to those
who are about ready to rush out,
00:26:08.40\00:26:11.43
any warning to them?
00:26:11.46\00:26:12.94
Yes, we have a caution here that
would encourage them to do a
00:26:12.98\00:26:17.64
little study and make sure
they and their dentist know what
00:26:17.67\00:26:22.30
their doing when
they have them replaced.
00:26:22.33\00:26:23.64
You know you're a Christian
clinician and you always bring
00:26:23.68\00:26:29.06
Christ into your practice.
00:26:29.10\00:26:30.42
Is there any closing thought
you'd like to bring to us
00:26:30.46\00:26:33.35
from a spiritual perspective?
00:26:33.39\00:26:36.22
Well I think of the text
in Romans 12:1 and 2 that's a
00:26:36.25\00:26:41.06
favorite of mine.
00:26:41.09\00:26:42.12
Paul says, "I beseech
you therefore brethren by the
00:26:42.15\00:26:45.68
mercies of God that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice
00:26:45.72\00:26:49.73
holy, acceptable unto God which
is your reasonable service.
00:26:49.76\00:26:54.28
And be not conformed to
this world but be ye transformed
00:26:54.32\00:26:58.48
by the renewing of your mind
that ye may prove what is the
00:26:58.52\00:27:02.65
good and acceptable
and perfect will of God. "
00:27:02.68\00:27:06.52
So as we recognize our
bodies are temples of the
00:27:06.55\00:27:10.32
Holy Spirit, temples of
God, I want to make sure that
00:27:10.36\00:27:14.30
I am not putting anything
into my own body or others that
00:27:14.33\00:27:18.24
would effect their
relationship with Jesus.
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We've been talking
with Dr. Chester Clark.
00:27:21.39\00:27:24.44
He's a dentist from Arkansas.
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He's practiced for 30 years.
00:27:26.39\00:27:28.48
This has been a wise council.
00:27:28.52\00:27:30.54
Thank you so much
for coming and joining us
00:27:30.57\00:27:32.96
and sharing this with us.
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I'm sure your patients are
thanking you as well as they've
00:27:34.59\00:27:37.72
seen some of the
positive results.
00:27:37.76\00:27:40.34
Yes, I frequently get
expressions of joy over the
00:27:40.38\00:27:45.18
benefits they've received.
00:27:45.22\00:27:46.80
And thank you for joining us
today on Health for a Lifetime.
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