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The Mad Hatters Tea Party

Why was the above called the mad hatters tea party ?

Well hatters used the mercury to strengthen the tall hats that they made, the vapours and touching the hats sent them mad.

Hence the term "mad as a hatter".

Now its no stretch of the imagination when you hear that the highest professional suicide rate are dentists, I wonder why ?

Maybe its to do with them using mercury amalgams or the vapour that's released when cleaning dental amalgams, or maybe its the tea they drink.

I know which one I would worry about !

There are 2 substances that HAVE to be what's called delivered by hand, they cannot be posted, one is uranium and the other is mercury / dental amalgam waste.

So why is it that a dental amalgam is supposedly completely safe in your tooth / mouth.

But, when its taken out its classed as a "hazardous waste", ask your dentist why ?

There is video and documented evidence that the tooth with dental amalgam releases methyl mercury vapour.

Even though some dentists state that they do not leak ? (see below for web site).

The Root of The Problem

 By Dr. Hal A. Huggins. Dentist

Dr Weston Price, a former director of Research for the American Dental Association, spent 35 years in the first third of this century researching the systemic diseases of the heart, kidney, uterus, nervous system and endocrine systems, which resulted from toxins seeping out of root-canal-filled teeth.

A certain percentage of people are sensitive to the toxins, which are within these dead teeth.

Dr Price saw many truths that even today we have a hard time seeing, for we are bogged down in the "but we've always done it that way" thinking.

His observations led him far beyond the accepted remedies of that day (1915-1930), which incidentally are basically the same treatments that are the foundation of today's root canal fundamentals.

He researched 24 of those fundamentals and found each to be lacking.

Root canal fillings (that fill up the space formerly occupied by the nerve) can be done in two ways. Usually a hole is cut from the top of the tooth into the nerve chamber and the chamber is filled through the hole.

Another method is used when an abscess is further advanced.

This involves cutting through the bone at the root end, clearing out all the infected material there and then sealing the root tip and sewing the area together. Bone will fill in the defect.

What material is usually used to seal the pulp chamber at the root tip ? Amalgam.

"Retrograde filling" is the term applied to this type of root canal sealing process.

Mercury now has direct access to the body fluids and can cause problems similar to those created from amalgam in the mouth.

The only difference is that those fillings in the mouth are much easier to replace.

All the age-old common concepts about root fillings were challenged by Price in such respected dental publications as the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of the American Dental Association.

He disputed that:

1) X-rays reveal the presence of infections.

2) Infections express themselves as bone absorption.

3) A given dental infection will express itself approximately the same in all people.

4) If pus is flowing from the tooth it is very dangerous to the patient.

5) Local comfort and efficiency of treated teeth are the evidence and measure of the success of a root-filled tooth.

What did Price find that convinced him that some people could not tolerate root canals.

First he observed that if he removed root-filled teeth from people suffering from kidney and heart disease, in most cases, they would improve.

In an effort to establish a relationship between the tooth and the disease, he inserted the root-filled teeth under the skin of rabbits. Rabbits have a similar immune system to humans.

In fact, a normal, non infected human tooth (as removed for orthodontic reasons) can be inserted under the skin of a rabbit for a year with practically no reaction.

A thin film will form over it, but microscopically there are no rejection cells present.

When a root-filled tooth was implanted under the skin of a rabbit, the rabbit died in under two days, sometimes within 12 hours.

Price then took a small fragment of the tooth and inserted it under the skin of a rabbit.

In two weeks the rabbit would lose over 20 per cent of its body weight, and die of heart or kidney disease, depending on the illness of the human donor. 

To further challenge this observation, he removed the fragment and transferred it to another rabbit.

In two weeks he observed a duplicate performance.

In one case, he re-implanted the same tooth fragment in 100 rabbits, each in succession dying from the same disease that the human had. (In most cases he transferred the fragment only 30 times.)

As obvious as the consequences were, dentists persisted in placing root-canal fillings.

This, of course, caused hot argument among dentists, and soon Dr.Percy R.Howe published a paper in the Journal of the National Dental Association rejecting Price's findings.

Dr.Howe injected large amounts of streptococcus bacteria into rabbits, and found no adverse reactions.

This 1920 publication is still used as proof that root-filled teeth are not harmful to humans.

Price investigated the methods used to sterilise root canals (similar to today’s technology) and found that teeth retained their sterility for only about two days. Most lost it in less than 24 hours.

But where were these bacteria hiding !

A tooth contains enamel, dentin and a central pulp chamber.

This central pulp chamber can be sterilised to a reasonable degree by removing its contents of nerves, arteries and veins. The dentin, however, is composed of thousands of tiny "dentin tubules".

Although microscopic in size, these tubules are quite adequate to house billions of bacteria.

If one took a front tooth and arranged the dentin tubules end to end, they would measure three miles.

Where do these bacteria come from ?

They are normal inhabitants of the mouth.

When a tooth becomes decay-prone, they invade the tooth and start killing tooth tissues.

When they reach the pulp chamber, they invade not only the pulp tissue, but also the dentin tubules.

When a dentist cleans out the pulp chamber, he removes all the bacteria in the chamber, but those little guys who went into the tubules are still there.

Then the dentist seals the tooth, and that's when the trouble starts.

In this "anaerobic" condition one that contains no oxygen--these streptococci (specifically diploic and short-chain strains from the viridens group) undergo a slight change in body form and metabolism to adapt to this new environment.

Now, instead of producing slightly offensive waste products, these transformed bacteria produce a potent poison called a toxin, but the cells of our immune system cannot get in through the tiny hole in the outside of the root to destroy the bacteria. The toxins can seep out. 

Fluids containing nutrients can seep into the tooth, so the bacteria continue to thrive in confinement. If the body launches a big fight against the toxins, then pus forms around the tooth.

Conventional wisdom says that pus is bad for the patient, and we must give antibiotics until it is gone.

Price found that pus was nearly sterile, and, though disagreeable, it was a sign of successfully quarantining the toxins from the tooth. Another upsetting situation pointed out by Price was that x-rays frequently miss abscesses that are on the front or back of a tooth.

About 30 per cent of the teeth have extra canals which may exit anywhere from halfway down the tooth, to all the way down at the tip, as they are supposed to.

They can also exit at the front, back or side of the tooth. Those "other" canals that abscess are the ones apt to be missed on x-ray.

If the body's immune system is compromised, then very little action is initiated around a root-filled tooth. Certain enzymes may escape, which stimulate the bone to form what is termed "condensing osteitis" around the tooth.

This is heavier than usual bone. It may actually fuse the surrounding bone of the tooth. On x-ray films, this will appear to be what is considered excellent healing.

This tooth gives no local trouble as far as pain and pus are concerned, but the toxins that seep out get into the circulation and with little immune system interference, they seek a specific organ to attack.

This is called tissue localisation.

Price had demonstrated this by transferring sections of root-filled teeth from animal to animal, generating the same disease with each transfer.

Many people have root canals that don't give problems. How does one distinguish between the susceptible and the non-susceptible! Price recorded 140,000 determinants in some 1200 patients to come up with the answer. The bottom line is heredity.

If your biological ancestry for two generations back, including brothers and sisters of your grandparents, was resistant to degenerative disease, then you are of good stock and not likely to be affected by root canal.

On the other hand, if there is a high frequency of heart and kidney problems, diabetes or reproductive disorders, then you might be susceptible.

Price also determined that a variety of stresses tended to push people over their threshold where root canal becomes a problem. He found that the two greatest were pregnancy and influenza.

Under the influence of either, the toxins from root filled teeth were much more apt to produce disease at the individual's specific susceptible site. 

Other stresses that upset root-filled teeth were grief, anxiety, chilling, severe hunger, acute and chronic infection. What if you have a root canal and want it removed ?

You don't just remove the tooth because this might give you more problems.

When these teeth are removed, the attachment from the tooth to the bone, called the periodontal ligament, must be removed with a dental bur at the same time.

This irritates the old bone, stimulating it to form new bone.

Recently, in my studies at the University of Colorado where I was finishing a masters program in science, we looked at biopsies of the bones under the root-filled teeth that we had removed.

The lymphocytes of auto-immune disease were imbedded at least a millimetre into the bone, and sometimes more.

All this must be removed if good bone healing is to be achieved. 

By Dr Hal A Huggins.

Dr Huggins, an American dentist, spent 25 years researching lecturing and writing about the dangers of amalgam fillings and root-canal-filled teeth.

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In dentistry they have a machine / unit called a 'sniffer' that detects air borne methyl mercury.

Dental surgeries are tested in this way to see if they are 'safe', for the public / patients from this hazardous substance.

If the sniffer was tested against peoples mouths with dental amalgams in their teeth, they would be classed as HAZARDOUS for the public that they were breathing upon !!

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Mercury in Vaccines - Letter from Dr. Boyd Haley. 

Dear - Name withheld for personal reasons. 

I am the Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky in the USA. 

I have been involved in research on mercury for many years and was the first to demonstrate that mercury exposure to brain tissues could produce the same biochemical aberrancies found in Alzheimer's disease. 

This has been confirmed by other recently published research where the major accepted pathological, diagnostic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease were produced by neurons in culture through exposure to sub-lethal doses of mercury---this is referenced and discussed in the attached article, (not included).

This, at the very least, strongly implies that 40 to 50 years exposure to mercury at a chronic level (but representing 80-90% of mercury body burden) would exacerbate this disease even if one chooses to believe mercury is not causal.   Additionally, what you also need to be aware of is the fact that research under my direction has recently shown that the neurotoxicity of thimerosal (the ethylmercury released on breakdown) in vaccines is at the low nanomolar level and this toxicity is even lowered dramatically by the presence of aluminum (also found in many vaccines) and, most importantly, the hormone testosterone. 

In fact, thimerosal concentrations that kill less than 2-3% of neurons at 3hours will kill 100% if very low (and completely non-toxic) levels of testosterone are present. 

 I am of the impression, due to an England based newspaper report, that the one major difference in the amniotic fluid of mothers of autistic children is that of increased testosterone----it is an opinion of mine that this increased testosterone is harmless on its own but does increase the sensitivity of the foetus and infant to thimerosal from vaccines. 

This also likely explains the 4 to 1 ratio of boys to girls that become autistic. 

However, most importantly this tremendous synergistic effect of testosterone demonstrates that one cannot predict a "safe level of mercury" for all individuals. 

I hope this helps you in your deliberations and if you wish to discuss this further I would be happy to do so.

Sincerely,  Boyd Haley.

Further information on the dental amalgam / mercury issues can be found on www.uninformedconsent.com follow the 2 bottom links on this web site page.

When testing patients, some thought that I was a bit eccentric to put it mildly, about gums, teeth, amalgam fillings and root canals, but as Moulder on X files used to say "the truth is out there" !!

Did you know that a dental amalgam releases Hg vapour ?

This is with warm beverages, acidic beverages (pop), food, brushing your teeth, just thinking about foods that your saliva also causes this reaction ?

This is the reaction that some dentists deny happens or that it is detrimental to your health ?

The tooth shown is releasing vapour from an old extracted tooth.

The tooth has been extracted for 10 years, as you can see it is still releasing vapour after just being dipped in luke warm water !

Could this be the reason why a tooth is classed as being toxic hazardous waste when taken out of your teeth / mouth ?

More to the point how is it not toxic when its in your teeth / mouth ?

I have yet to have this explained either scientifically or rationally to me ?

In the sense of 'hazardous' waste products the only waste that is classed as being within the same toxicity range as mercury amalgam is uranium !!

Apart from amalgams that you may have in your teeth already, if a dentist wants to put another amalgam filling in your teeth.

Why not ask them to sign that it will not leak Hg vapour or be detrimental to your health - I BET THEY WILL NOT !

Remember the 'Mad Hatters' !

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration

You know, the 'stuff' that some dentists tells you that IT HAS NO EFFECT !!

http://commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/

NICO-Cavitations Accompanied by Pain

Within dentistry they are commonly known as Nico's

The term NICO, neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis, has been used when severe facial pain, neuralgia, headache, or a phantom toothache accompanies this disease. 

Although the presence of cavitations is a common occurrence, only a small percentage of the individuals with cavitations suffer from the pain component included in the description of NICO lesions. 

Even if pain symptoms or localized jawbone symptoms are not present, systemic symptoms can be extensive. 

The intense concern expressed by several researchers and physicians earlier this century about the systemic

 influences of these lesions has likewise become a concern for contemporary dentists,

 physicians and researchers.

 It should also be noted that there may not be pain as such that is noticeable in these areas  BUT they can cause symptoms in other areas and organs, because of the toxins and

 neuro-toxicity of these areas.

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For more information and references on dental problems causing systemic disease etc.

See :   you will need an acrobat reader for this file.

To see which system or organ is being affected by a tooth with amalgams or root canals etc.

See : you will need an acrobat reader for this file.

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