Dear Dr. Shuren:
As someone who has spoken 3 times before the FDA about the obfuscation of calling these fillings “Silver”, and the harm it can have on those susceptible (depleted homocysteine, inadequate APO e2 allele, inability to excrete Hg) which can be manifest in many ways I am once again encouraged by the news from Charlie Brown, that a final decision is coming before the end of the year.
We have been down this road before, however. As I am sure you will remember, the debacle in July of 2009 involving corruption perhaps prevailing over truth.
It is time that the American public learns that not only have their systems been poisoned at the hands of dental lemmings who couldn’t make the connection that their minds were being poisoned by the ADA. How can any dentist assume mercury is safe in the mouth, but not to dump down the toilet? And they’re supposed to be scientists.
The Vimy study was enough for me to stop placing amalgams 30 years ago. “Why?” you might ask.
Because ADA President, Arlen Lackey responded to questions from the NY Times stating, “That research was done on sheep, it wasn’t done on humans.” It opened my eyes and I started investigation. I learned that Dr. Vimy repeated the research on primates with the same results.
Vimy’s study involved the placement of fillings using a traceable radioisotope of mercury and found that the mercury from these fillings distributed to all organ systems in the body, and crossed the blood-brain barrier, and placenta even more readily.
I think everyone in this country knows that Washington needs to take a stand against influence peddling. There can be no other reason for the FDA to act as a sinister body allowing the wanton poisoning of adults, children, pregnant mothers. The ADA (of which I am a member) has tried to influence the FDA by having its speakers say:
1. It would be too difficult to train dental students how to place these composite restorations.
2. The insurance industry cannot afford the curtailment of mercury fillings
3. It’s an impossible restorative material to use on children, and more.
I refuted all this when I first appeared before the FDA in 1997, and then again last year by stating that
1. It’s the dinosaurs teaching in the dental schools that need reprogramming, the students are there to learn science and dexterity.
2. It’s not really insurance, it’s a reimbursement plan that is penurious, and that’s why most conscientious practitioners don’t even accept dental insurance, and
3. If fluoridation were as beneficial as its proponents contend we wouldn’t be dealing, as dentists, with massive amounts of decay in children. Instead, we find that because parents rely on benefits, rather than proper diet to control decay in their children’s mouths, tooth decay in children is still an issue. We need public health education. Because many pregnant women often don’t know they’re pregnant at the time of filling placement, mercury use in women of child-bearing age must be banned, which would then be sexually discriminatory.
To read the full content of my 3 addresses to the FDA, please visit:
1997 text of my speech –
2010 text of my speech -
Videos of presenters, 2010 -
You should also read this treatise on Informed Consent: which the FDA should take a step further, and educate the public who will be clamoring to have their fillings removed that this removal should only be done by a dentist who is taking all precautions needed to safeguard the health of their patient, their staff, and the environment.
Let me know if you need to know anything else.
Steve Markus
The Centre for Dentistry at Haddon
209 White Horse Pike
Haddon Heights, NJ 08035
www.SmileSouthJersey.com
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