This dentist supports the mercury filling ban in Philadelphia and here’s why.
Re: AMALGAM BILL IN PHILADELPHIA
Bill No. 040904, The Use of Mercury in Dentistry
This bill is scheduled for a vote by City Council on Thursday, November 15, sometime between 9 a.m. and noon.
Dear Council:
I understand that there is an email and fax campaign attempting to undermine the hard work that Consumers for Dental Choice has done here in Philadelphia. I encourage you to study the science and not accept the diatribe that the ADA and its lemmings put forward about the fact that the dental fillings which contain 50% mercury (the most toxic, naturally-occurring substance on the planet) is safe for the environment, and becomes inert once placed in the mouth.
If that were true, why would the ADA have been telling dentists for decades to keep unused scraps of filling material in a tightly-closed glass jar, under a high specific gravity fluid, like antifreeze? Why would they be encouraging dentists to install mercury separators on their buildings to remove mercury before it hits the sewage treatment facilities?
I encourage you to visit the mercury links page of my website www.cent4dent.com, to learn why when in September of 2006, the FDA panel convened to determine mercury safety voted 13-7 against the hypothesis that mercury fillings were safe. The chief argument of the pro-mercury side was not safety, but cost.
I questioned the panel as to what they felt the decrease in cost would be on the medical side of the ledger, with all the savings anticipated due to the unnecessary medical treatments that are being rendered to treat patients for symptoms that their physicians have failed to recognize as mercury poisoning.
Stephen J Markus, DMD FACE
Pa License 1xxx0
drmarkus@cent4dent.com
1 800 520 3440