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Researched by Simon Rees, 2004 phoenixhealingcentre@ Simon’s Factsheet on Mercury So just what are the facts? “Fillings contain about three-quarters of a gram of mercury a person with 8 fillings has the equivalent of 6 grams of mercury in his body, a concentration that would shut down a school chemistry lab or bring a toxic clean up crew to a lake.” (Charles Brown, L.A. Times) Dental “amalgam” fillings are the silver-/black-coloured ones in most people’s mouths. They are approximately half mercury, combined with silver, tin and other metals. The mercury leaks continually into the body’s tissues, seriously affecting health. Nevertheless, amalgam continues to be the standard material of choice for most dentists in most developed nations. In addition, many of us are exposed to mercury from our mothers’ fillings, coal smoke, industry, medications, vaccinations and other sources. Read on to find out more about these urgent and pressing questions: (1) What evidence is there? (2) Why is dental exposure to mercury the most worrying and prevalent? (3) Why do we not hear more about this in the media? (4) What can be done about it? THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF DISINTERESTED GROUPS GOVERNMENTS ? 1. Over 60,000 quality peer-reviewed clinical studies1 lend credence to the conclusions of a report sponsored by the World Health Organisation and United Nations (Environmental Health Criteria 118)2 which concluded that the use of mercury in amalgam “silver” fillings is hazardous both to human health and the environment and that ‘dental mercury fillings constitute the main mercury exposure risk to humans, exceeding food, air and water sources combined.’ The specific figures furnished were fish and seafood sources as 2.3mcg a day on average, other food 0.3mcg, and fillings a whopping 3 to 17mcg. (Other studies show up to 29mcg, while some experts estimate over 100mcg if you take into consideration the increased release from fillings during chewing