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Tag: Dental Amalgam

  • Dental Amalgams and Chronic Disease

    Working with a team of American researchers, we published in 2014 a review about the association between dental amalgams and chronic disease (1). The following is a summary: “The purpose of this review is to examine the evidence for a relationship between mercury (Hg) exposure from dental amalgams and certain idiopathic chronic illnesses–chronic fatigue syndrome […]

  • Evidence Supporting a Link between Dental Amalgams and Chronic Illness, Fatigue, Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide

    Norway and Sweden have banned amalgam, reportedly due to environmental concerns. However, the use and toxic risk of dental amalgam fillings is still a subject of ongoing debate in many countries. Now, a review conducted by a team of international researchers has provided new evidence that mercury exposure from dental amalgam may cause or contribute […]

  • Copper Amalgam and Norwegian Dental Health Personnel

    Copper Amalgam and Norwegian Dental Health Personnel

    Copper amalgams, consisting 60-70% mercury (Hg) and 30-40% copper (Cu) (1, 2), were used very commonly in Norway for children with caries – allegedly because they were thought to inhibit the development of new caries. But they were used in a way making them far more dangerous for dental health personnel than other types of […]

  • Dental Amalgam and Nanotechnology (Lecture)

    This is a lecture by the German medical doctor Joachim Mutter about dental amalgam and nanotechnology. It was held at the 4th Anti-Censorship-Conference (Anti-Zensur-Koalition) – 27. Juni 2009 in Widnau, Schweiz. Dr. Mutter is a CONEM-member.  

  • Agent-Centered Deontology: The Minamata Convention on Mercury and Dentistry’s Role

    The Minamata Convention on Mercury is a global, legally binding treaty which opened for signature on October 10, 2013 in Japan. To address the global oral health and environmental impact of mercury dental amalgam fillings, first author Tim K. Mackey and co-authors John T. Contreras and Bryan A. Liang collaborated on a peer-reviewed scientific journal […]

  • Dental Mercury’s Toxic Journey Into The Environment

    “Dental Mercury’s Toxic Journey Into The Environment” was narrated by Robert Lamarck and produced as a collaborative effort between the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, the website Mercury Exposure and the film You Put What In My Mouth? a documentary about the devastating effects of dental mercury on patients, staff and the environment.

  • MELISA® Testing for Diagnosis and Treatment of Metal-Induced Diseases (Lecture)

    Vera Stejskal, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Immunology at University of Stockholm, Sweden. She is founder and preident of the MELISA® MEDICA Foundation, which is dedicated to the science of metal allergy and its diagnosis when treating chronic diseases such as chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (CFS /ME), multiple sclerosis (MS) or other autoimmune and allergic […]

  • Quecksilber: The Strange Story of Dental Amalgam (Video)

    Quecksilber: The Strange Story of Dental Amalgam (Video)

    This is an abbreviated version of “Quecksilber: The Strange Story of Dental Amalgam”, a documentary produced by Robert Gammal,  BDS. It was made for the lay person but is fully referenced, and appropriate for persons at all levels of knowledge. The documentary shows, visually and informatively, how no amount of mercury is safe in the body. Dr. Gammal is a CONEM member. VIDEO: Gammal […]

  • Letter To The Deans Of Dentistry

    Letter To The Deans Of Dentistry

    This is an open letter from  Robert Gammal, BDS (July 2011): “Dental students are the only students who are routinely poisoned by mercury, the third most toxic, non-radioactive substance known, without their knowledge or consent.  Only arsenic and lead are more toxic than mercury.  The consequences are horrific.” Dr. Gammal is secretary of the Australian Society of […]