Uninformed Consent : The Hidden Dangers in Dental Care

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Is your dentist making you sick? You wouldn’t eat poison, but your mouth may already be a Pandora’s Box of health problems waiting to happen. Get the facts and know the risks, so that you can make informed choices. Recommended by Library Journal.

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·The information proactive dentists and consumers need to lobby for an acceptable standard of dental care

Reader Reviews:

As a practicing dentist and scientist who could stand to generate a lot of income from the unneccessary removal of amalgam fillings, believe me when I say that from a "toxicity" standpoint, amalgam is a proven safe material, having been used in almost every country in the world for over a hundred years. There are other drawbacks to the use of metal fillings (esthetics, expansion-contraction) that should factor into one's decision to use composite over amalgam to restore a new lesion, but from a 'poisonous material' standpoint, I am in concurrence with the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association, and the World Health Organization, that amalgam fillings are safe, reliable, and effective.This book is doing more harm than good. It is wonderful how this book tells you 10% of what you need to know. Amalgam is bad, it is very bad! But there are two other sides to this. Number 1: that really fast suction device sucks up all the extra amalgam, nothing goes into your system. Number 2: The amalgam is sealed in and can not contaminate you. Number 3: If someone is still worried they can also get a composite filling, this is a tooth colored filling that contains no amalgam. As for a bridge being better than an implant, that is also two sided. A person that has trouble fighting an infection should not have this surgery. But in a healthy person this is the best option. Without a tooth in place your body will begin losing bone in that area. An implant will stop this from happening, a bridge will not. Eventually a person can lose so much bone that the teeth that were next to the missing tooth fall out. The bone that was supporting them has dissolved. The longer you wait the more teeth you lose. I have done much research into the subject and any dentist can produce proof of this. Don't be ignorant, research it yourself and you will see that I am right.I was fortunate to read this book before undergoing removal of root-filled teeth and amalgam fillings. My dentist had recommended an implant to replace an extracted root-filled tooth. This book points out the danger of such an immune system challenge (I chose a bridge of biocompatible materials instead) and provides further updates to It's All in Your Head. Especially helpful are the sections on root canals, cavitations and detoxification.Something I did not know (and which the authors expose) is that dentists as a professsion have the highest suicide rate. It is because, they argue convincingly, dentists spend decades dealing with mercury, a deadly neuro-toxin, which collects in their brains. Although they don't comment on it, this is where the old expression, "Mad as a hatter" came from: in the past hatters became insane because they used mercury in their job. The average dental amalgam is 50% mercury: this is the poison the ADA claims is safe and allows dentists to place inches from peoples' brains? Europe is far ahead of us in this regard; mercury fillings are now illegal. The list of diseases improved or cured by removal of fillings is astonishing. The authors list case after case. Schopenhauer made the comment that ideas are first ridiculed, then violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident. I wonder how many years it will take before the dangers of these fillings will be accepted as self-evident.A great book written by two very intelligent and "open minded" doctors. Dr. Thomas Levy's story lead me to taking a more pro-active position with my dental revision. I already knew about the devastating effects of my "silver fillings" and I had some knowledge about root canals. However, his story took me to the next level of action...removal of my two root canals. And yes, just like Dr. Huggins and Dr. Levy mention in the book, they were infected and a source of slow and constant poisoning of my body. I owe the a debt of graditute for their courage to speak out about yet another atrosity in dentistry.

They also go into detail about many other sources of mercury...eye contact lens solution, contraceptives, vaccines, seafood, etc.

If you want to know why we are getting sicker and sicker in this country, then you need to read this book.
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