Dear President Obama and AAAS,
You have asked for input into your scientific agenda. I want to suggest to you that the Federal Government has ignored the existing science on the dangers of mercury from “silver” fillings which is added to by mercury in flu vaccines and fish.
A major basis for the continued claims of safety regarding dental mercury by organized dentistry and in particular the ADA is contention that mercury does not cause any disease. That is not true. I say this from personal experience. I am a practicing dentist who suffered with depression until my recently placed mercury filling was removed in 1987. I have addressed the FDA and caused them to reject their own white paper on dental mercury toxicity in 2006. The text of that speech is available on my website at http://www.cent4dent.com/html/mercury_issues/fdaletter.htm Dr. Hamburg, at FDA had a vested interest in ignoring the panel convened in ’06 when she and the FDA failed to classify dental mercury fillings as a Class 3 device, as it is throughout Europe.
Please be sure to read the treatise from Dr. Haley, already submitted. Doctors in 1850 realized that mercury should not be implanted in the heads of humans, 4 inches from the base of the brain. What more evidence do you need. Please be sure to have your scientists visit my site www.cent4dent.com and also there is a wealth of information on www.dentalwellness4u.com
How can we possibly be lagging so far behind other developed nations in health care? What sinister forces are at work here poisoning Americans? How can the ADA tell dentists that scrap mercury needs to be stored under a high-specific-gravity fluid out of one side of their mouth, and get dentists to believe mercury from dental fillings is safe to put in Americans’ mouths? Why then, couldn’t they store their unused mercury scrap in a jar filled with saliva? I think you and I know the answer!
The peer reviewed science now points to mercury as the major factor in causing most neurological disorders, and particular Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. This is summarized in a Petition for Reconsideration filed with the USFDA September 3, 2009 which can be found beginning on page 24 at: http://www.iaomt.org/articles/files/files314/petition%20for%20reconsideration%20090309.pdf .
And go to pp. 4-23 and in particular p.11-12 to see that Dental amalgams (mercury/silver fillings) are the major contributor to the human body burden of mercury. Thus, mercury/sliver fillings are probably the major factor causing Alzheimer’s disease & multiple sclerosis. Fish and flu vaccines add to our body burden. More personal stories and science can be found at toxicteeth.org, IAOMT.org. (delete these URLs and/or put other URLS here) And before you discount these personal stories remember the a major principal of the scientific method is OBSERVATION.
If you will take time to read the existing science you will be shocked. I can provide you much more detail if you are interested about my personal problems from mercury and the science upon request.
Stephen J. Markus DMD FACE
209 White Horse Pike
Haddon Heights, NJ
856 546 0665