Hello, and welcome
to Health for a Lifetime
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I'm your host Don
Mackintosh and we're delighted
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that you've joined us.
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We have an exciting program
today and also a program that
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will probably cause you to think
very seriously about what's
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in your mouth.
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We're going to be
talking to Dr. Chester Clark.
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He's a dentist from Arkansas.
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You've been practicing
for about 29 years there,
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isn't that right?
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Yes.
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And that's just one of
the many hats that you wear.
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You were telling me that you're
involved in the civil affairs
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of your city there and also
you're a founder of a school.
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Do any of the students work with
you in your dental practice?
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Yes, in fact we have usually
two, one at the front desk
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helping and one
dental assisting in the back.
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Now one of the things
you discovered in your
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dental practice... and have
all of those years been there in
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Arkansas that you've practiced?
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Yes.
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Ok, one of the things discovered
I guess about 20 years ago now,
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was that mercury and
fillings can cause problems.
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And you, I guess, had put
fillings in that were mercury
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based up until that
time, but then you stopped.
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Yes.
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A number of
factors led me to that.
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One was learning some statements
from the Spirit of Prophecy,
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probably the strongest
motivation that correlated with
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science that I was reading, the
scientific studies showing the
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effects of mercury.
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The statement about, I think
you read this before to me,
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about not one particle of
mercury should be in the body.
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Those types of things.
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The symptoms will be the same
as long as there is one particle
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left in the system.
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One of the things that you've
talked about is the relationship
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between mercury in
fillings and electricity.
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I think we're going
to talk about that today.
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Yes.
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Electricity is one of what
I call the paths to pathology
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that we found from these
mercury amalgam fillings.
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So how does electricity
come from mercury fillings?
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Well, if we review a little bit
what a battery looks like and
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the components of a battery.
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Ok, I'm picturing one.
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First of all you have a base
metal and that is usually lead.
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Then you have a precious
metal which is usually silver.
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So you have to have these two
diverse metals in that battery.
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But then it won't produce any
electricity unless you have an
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electrolyte.
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In a battery it's
sulphuric acid, I believe.
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In the mouth are these amalgam
fillings you have a similar
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situation.
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You have a base
filling, which is mercury,
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and you have a precious
metal, which is silver also.
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About 14% of amalgam is silver
and then you have some other
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tin, zinc, and copper as well.
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But then you have an electrolyte
that helps to carry the...
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What's that?
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In the mouth it's the saliva.
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Saliva is an electrolyte.
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It can serve as an electrolyte.
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When you compare these together
you can see that you have all
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the components for a
battery right in your mouth.
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So if your car is stopped,
you want to jump it, just hook
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it up to your mouth.
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Well, if you have enough mercury
fillings, I guess. -laughter-
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Ok, so this is a problem.
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You normally wouldn't
think that it would be good for
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you to have a
battery in your mouth.
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That's right because it's more
electricity than what we need.
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You know, sometimes as we
get older we feel like we need a
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little spark to get going, but
this is a little more than what
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the body requires.
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So if you're feeling kind
of "wired," it could be because
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you have too much
electricity in your mouth.
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That's right
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Now you have a clip that
you're going to be showing
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to us today.
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Set that up for us,
what's it going to show us, who
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put it together.
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Yes, this is from the
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International Association for
Oral Medicine and Toxicology,
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the IAOMT, that has been
researching and funding research
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and publishing things about
mercury for 20, 25 years now.
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I just received this DVD a
few weeks ago and I was just
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really impressed.
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This probably
describes it better than
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I could ever verbally.
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Ok, well, let's
take a look at it and see
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what we're going to look at.
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The worst effects occur with
root fillings using gold plated
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brass screws directly in contact
with amalgam and gold caps or
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bridges over amalgams.
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In the mouth
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Till and Maly report finding
200-300 mcg of mercury per gram
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of tissue in
teeth with amalgam only.
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But...
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If gold and amalgam are
present in the same mouth it may
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increase the release of
mercury by up to four fold
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from all the fillings.
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Amalgam fillings
also act like capacitors.
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They store electric charge.
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These currents can be measured
with a simple micrometer.
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The magnitudes of oral currents
are in the same range of those
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induced in the tissues
of a human standing directly
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under a high
voltage transmission line.
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These oral currents operate
in a range of micro amps.
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Our central
nervous system operates
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in the range of nano amps.
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This means that if you have
amalgam fillings, you have a
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device in your mouth which
is storing the electrical charge
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that's...
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Voltages in the
mouth constitute a...
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That's the part of the nervous
system that regulates all of the
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unconscious functions of
the body, such as digestion,
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breathing,
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and heart rate.
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The human body is a delicately
balanced electromagnetic system.
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This is not something generally
acknowledged by the quacks.
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Amalgam fillings respond to
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external
electrical stimulation too.
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Electromagnetic field effects
are so strong in the human body
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that one study found that simply
sitting close to a Cathode gray
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tube like a TV set or computer
monitor significantly increased
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the mercury vapor
released from all three types
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of amalgam studied.
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Wow! that certainly makes us
think even more serious about
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what you've been saying.
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We have
electricity in our mouths.
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Now, do we have electricity
even if we don't have
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gold fillings?
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Because I have fillings but
there are none of them are gold,
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my parents couldn't afford them.
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Well, yes.
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The point of that video
was that if you have additional
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metals such as gold, then not
only is there more electricity
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but also it pulls the
mercury out at a greater rate.
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There's a strong affinity
between gold and mercury.
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Let me just see if I
understood the impact
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of that clip that we saw.
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If we have mercury fillings
we're going to have increased
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electricity.
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If we have mercury fillings
but then also have another metal
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filling in there it
even increases it more.
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The danger in that is
that... help me out...
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Well, the danger is
that we're going to be
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exposed to more mercury.
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It will pull the mercury
out of the amalgam fillings
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at a greater rate.
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We can illustrate the
affinity of gold and mercury by
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remembering back in the
gold rush days, the gold miners
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used to salvage small particles
of gold by putting mercury
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in their pan, swishing it
around, and it would grab on
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to small, very small particles
of gold that they might not
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be able to see or
pick up otherwise.
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And then they would pour it
into a kettle and put it over
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a fire and they
would burn off the mercury.
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Hopefully not stand
over and breath the vapors.
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They would burn off that
mercury and it would leave gold
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left in the pan.
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Is that right?
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That is a simple illustration of
the attraction between the two.
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The other thing this
clip brought out was that the
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increase in electricity, they
said, was about a 1,000 times
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more than the other cells
or the nervous system around it
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and that's not a good thing.
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No, it's not.
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I've had several patients
that demonstrated this to me.
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One lady had a interesting
syndrome, I don't know if it
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was ever diagnosed, but she had
all this muscle twitching in her
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face between her
mouth and her eyes.
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It was just kind of a constant
thing, very annoying, of course.
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She was out of state.
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I didn't' actually have
the privilege of treating her.
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I talked to her a number
of times and suggested that
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yes, her mercury fillings
could be a possibility here and
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electricity because I knew there
was a high level of electricity
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compared to the
body's electrical system.
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So she went to another
dentist had her mercury fillings
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replaced and that immediately
stopped her muscle twitching.
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Is that right?
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So that maybe what was happening
there was the electricity was
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polarizing the muscles,
the cells in the muscles,
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and that caused the twitching.
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Yes.
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And you may have heard
antidotal stories of people that
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could pick up frequencies
of radio stations through their
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mercury fillings.
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Yes, I've heard that.
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Is there any truth to that?
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Well, when you recognize
the kind of electricity and all
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these metals, it's
easy for me to see that.
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I don't know I've had a patient
that said that... but actually
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I did have a patient tell
me one time he lived in an
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apartment or duplex
or something right close
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to another apartment anyway.
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He could look through and see
the other person's television.
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And he found he could tap his
teeth together... like that...
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and cause static on
that television in the
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apartment next door.
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Either he had a very big mouth
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or it was the
fillings, you're thinking?
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Yes, and that would have to be
electricity if it was anything.
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Two questions I have for you.
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On that clip it also showed, it
said that having these types of
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fillings in your mouth with the
mercury and then the other metal
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is like standing
under power lines.
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I grew up, at least part of
the time, in northern Michigan.
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We lived like a mile away
from a large set of power lines.
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My mother would always
say, "Don't stand under those
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because people that
live near those types of
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things get cancer. "
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Have you heard of
any studies about that?
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No, but I know that if you have
fillings that electricity is
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going to pull the mercury out of
your fillings at a greater rate.
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I think there is a number of
studies that show correlations
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with the mercury in
our system and cancer.
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In fact I was listening to a
lecture just last night on DVD
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who said he'd done a study and
found 683 studies correlating
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mercury in the
system with cancer.
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Wow! that is troubling.
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Don't want to have that
extra juice in your mouth.
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One other question
that's totally unrelated.
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I'm just asking you because I
don't get to visit with dentists
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as often as my wife would like.
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Why does it hurt when you
have fillings in your mouth and
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then you bite down
on a piece of tin foil?
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Well, you're actually
releasing an electrical charge.
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You're discharging
some electricity there.
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And that's what hurts?
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Yes, often times it does.
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This make me cringe
even think about it.
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Touch a fork or
something to your filling.
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That's what's
happening, you're getting a
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little electrical charge?
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Ok, well, don't
chew the tin foil.
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Have you ever measured
this electricity yourself?
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Yes, we have.
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We for years had a
little mercury tester.
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It's called an amalgamator.
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We would evaluate each filling.
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We would put a probe on the
lip here and take the other end
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of the probe and touch each
filling and record the amount
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of electricity
that was printed out.
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Is it a lot?
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Well, that tester
did not quantify it.
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But it was interesting, this
was years ago, we had a patient.
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He was a mechanic.
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He was very practical and
he carried with him on his belt
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a multi-tester device.
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Just in case he
wanted to test something?
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Yes, and he knew how to use it.
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I have one but I
don't know how to use it.
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He said, after we had checked
his fillings with our little
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device, he said, "I'm curious,
why don't you see if it works
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with my multi-tester. "
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So I said, "Sure. "
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So we tested
all of his fillings.
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They weren't the same
numbers but they were the same
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proportions as
what we had found.
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But his little device had a
read-out and it was micro amps
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that we were measuring, which
I thought was really unique
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because I'd been telling
patients for years that these
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fillings are producing
micro amps, the body functions
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on the level of nano amps
which is a 1,000 times less.
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So it could be several thousand
times difference than the actual
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electricity generated.
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We're talking
with Dr. Chester Clark.
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We're talking about mercury
fillings and how they relate
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Welcome back.
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We're talking
with Dr. Chester Clark.
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We're talking about your teeth.
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We're talking about the
potential problems that can come
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as a result of
having mercury fillings.
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We were specifically
talking about it as it relates
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to electricity,
isn't that right Doctor?
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Yes.
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You had a story you told me
about during the break about
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a patient that experienced
some kind of angina pain
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that what not related to this.
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Tell us that story and
then we're going to look at
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some good news.
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Ok.
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This was a patient that was
actually a pastor, had retired
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early, because of
some health problems,
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built a little cabin up in the
hills above where I practice.
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He came down and thought
maybe he should replace his
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mercury fillings.
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He hadn't related it to
his health problems at all
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Of course, I'm in that business
and I was glad to oblige him.
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After we took his mercury
fillings out, a few months later
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his wife was in and I was
talking with her and asked how
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Ben was doing.
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She said, "He's
doing pretty good. "
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"You know he hasn't had any
chest pains since you took his
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fillings out. "
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And I said, "Chest pains?"
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This is kind of like a double
blind study because I didn't
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know anything about chest pains
before and hadn't even told him
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there was any correlation
but I said, "Chest pains?"
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She said, "Yes for 22 years
he had angina-like pains. "
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He had gone to Mayo Clinic
to be tested out, cardiovascular
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people, specialists around
the country - nobody could find
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any correlation between his
heart function and these pains.
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His heart was
functioning normally
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and found no correlation.
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He afterwards recognized that
those pains started when he was
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in college and he had a
large mercury amalgam filling
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placed in a lower molar.
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Afterwards his
pain was totally gone.
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The only explanation I have
for that there may be others,
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but I think it's probably the
electricity that was interfering
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the vagus nerve that innovates
the heart that probably gave
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him the sensation
of pain in his chest.
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Has there been any research done
on a relationship between those
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that you know of?
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Well, I just learned of a study
evaluating hearts on autopsy
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of patients with
cardiovascular disease.
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They found as much as 22,000
times the safe level of mercury
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in these hearts - actual
mercury in the cardiac tissue.
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So again, I'm not sure how that
correlates but it seems to have
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some connection.
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I think you've convinced all
of us, at least you've convinced
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me that this stuff is bad.
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Are there any alternatives?
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Is there anything we can do?
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Yes, fortunately we
have some good alternatives.
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Non-electric alternatives!
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Yes, that do not
form electricity.
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Actually sometimes
there is some electricity
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in chemical reactions.
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Chemical reactions actually
have some electricity sometimes.
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But the composite material that
we use, after a few hours or
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few days, there should be
no electricity coming from them
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after the chemistry
is totally complete.
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So rather than having
mercury based fillings you have
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what you call
composite based fillings.
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Yes, of course you know
we're in the age of plastics.
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Composites are actually a
type of plastic resin that has
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added silica and finally ground
particles to make it hard and
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strong and durable.
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But what makes it so beautiful
is the bonding technique
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that actually bonds it to
the tooth surface that helps to
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strengthen the tooth as
well as seal the filling.
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I think you have a
graphic you want to show us.
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Yes, I want to show you
a picture of two teeth with
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typical mercury
amalgam fillings.
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Now I was taught to
call these silver fillings.
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But silver is a very
small component even though it
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is a silver color.
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But these fillings, I would
remind our viewers, actually
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have 45-58% mercury.
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You can see the large
first molar there has a gap
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around it and you can
see some grayish color in the
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tooth structure around it.
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That's actually mercury that
is leaching out of the filling
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into the tooth.
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I am confident if that filling
were taken out you would find
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some what we call
"black scuzz" underneath it.
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Some combinations of bacterial
decay and the remnants of the
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metals, the other metals that
are leaching out of the filling.
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That, fortunately, can
be replaced with a beautiful
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material such as this.
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These are the same two
teeth with composite fillings.
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They are very life-like, very
natural in color and if we were
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placing a composite in a
new cavity, the filling would be
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much smaller because we have to
reduce much less tooth structure
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for composite material.
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We only take away the
tooth structure that is diseased
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whereas with mercury fillings
we had to remove a lot more
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tooth structure to
provide the retention form for
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the filling.
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The tooth was required to
be strong enough to hold the
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filling in.
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By contrast the composites the
filling is bonding to the tooth
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and actually strengthening
the tooth structure.
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Does that composite expand and
contract as much as say a metal
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or a mercury based filling?
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Excellent question.
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Metal fillings like the
mercury amalgams they go through
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what's called... well they
have a coefficient of thermal
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expansion which is much
greater than tooth structure.
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Whereas the composite material
is almost identical thermal
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expansion so you won't have
those dimensional changes and
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distortions.
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One of the criticisms of
composites is that it goes
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through a
polymerization shrinkage.
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If you have a real large filling
that covers two thirds of the
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surface of the tooth and you
put the composite in there all
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in one step, which is not very
likely, because the composite
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is cured by light and light
doesn't penetrate that deep,
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so you always fill
it a step at a time.
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But if you put in a
large filling, say you didn't
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understand these
dynamics and there was like
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2 to 3 percent shrinkage
on polymerization, then you
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might have some open margins
and some problems with it.
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But there are techniques that
we have learned, those of us
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who have followed the
development of the composite
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science, that we minimize
or eliminate that shrinkage.
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Interesting.
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So with this technology, the
composites, it's amazing to me
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why more dentists, you told
me earlier 70 million amalgam
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mercury fillings are
still put in per year.
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You know there's only what?
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300 million Americans or
270, so that's like a third.
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Why is it that more dentists
are not using composites?
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I'm not sure, but there is some
good news here in that a few
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years ago the number of
amalgams placed per year
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were 100 million.
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So that's an improvement.
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But many dentists are resistant
to change perhaps or just
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are not aware that these
fillings release so much mercury
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and it has such a powerful
impact on people's health.
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I know I was in ignorance
for many years so I can't be too
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critical.
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I've placed my
share of mercury fillings.
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I think as more and more of the
public understand what is going
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on and make a stronger demand
on their dentist, that more of
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them will take the courses.
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I think every state, almost
every dental school has courses
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that show or teach the
current techniques for bonding
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composite fillings.
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You don't see any courses
anymore on mercury fillings.
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Two quick questions for you.
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First of all, what if I
have crowns that are gold or
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porcelain and you said that
amalgam fillings with that could
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cause a lot of electricity?
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And then should I
get these removed?
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As we said, gold acts as
a magnet that increases the
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rate of
vaporization of the mercury.
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At all costs, if there is
mercury filling in contact
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with a gold crown, that is...
well the textbooks for dental
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school said 50 years ago
that that should never be done.
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But I still see
it happen sometimes.
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The first step would be to have
the mercury fillings properly
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removed.
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Some people are so anxious
to get rid of every trace of
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mercury they will even have
crowns replaced to make sure
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there's no mercury under them.
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So should people rush out
and find their new and nearest
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barber, surgeon, or dentist
to get their teeth taken out?
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Definitely not.
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We need to give a little warning
that there can be some hazards
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especially someone who is
older with a lot of mercury and
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a lot of years
of mercury exposure.
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I guess there's some kind of
protocol that is used in taking
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out these things.
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Yes, there is very definitely.
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Now you like to bring the
spiritual into your practice
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and also into your program.
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Do you have a spiritual thought
you want to leave us with?
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Yes, in Romans 13:11, 12 I
read, "And that knowing the
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time that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep
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for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed.
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The night is far spent, the days
at hand let us therefore cast
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off the works of
darkness and let us put on
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the armor of light. "
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I like to think of these
fillings as the armor of light,
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positive ways that we
can enhance our health and
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our Christian experience.
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So, cast off the bad
fillings, put in the new ones,
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but use caution.
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We hope that today's program
helps you and as a result
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you will have health
that lasts not just for now
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but a lifetime.
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