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Modern
dentistry is a curious branch of conventional medicine, and like much
of conventional medicine, it offers a strange mixture of both helping
people (improving dental health) while harming them (filling cavities
with mercury). Most dentists, like many doctors, believe in outrageous
myths like the idea that putting mercury, one of the most toxic
substances known to man, into the mouths of patients is perfectly safe.
Dentists also routinely promote the ludicrous idea that dripping
fluorosilicic acid, a toxic waste product sometimes called "fluoride," into public
water supplies somehow reduces cavities in children. And thus, like
most practitioners of conventional
medicine, dentists subscribe to a near-religious belief in several
health-related falsehoods.
The mercury fillings
issue is one of the most outrageous. Dentists don't even call them "mercury"
fillings anymore, because the public has finally figured out that
mercury is toxic. So they call them "silver" fillings, but they're
still made of approximately 40% mercury. Once this mercury is placed in
a person's mouth, it begins to break down, off-gassing mercury vapor
that's inhaled with every breath. It causes chronic, low-level mercury
poisoning that I have no doubt is partly responsible for today's
epidemic of Alzheimer's disease, dementia and various neurological
disorders. The American Dental Association, no surprise, continues to
insist that mercury fillings are completely safe, despite all the
evidence showing that mercury fillings create mercury vapor.
Some forward-thinking dentists, however, are
spearheading a movement to ban mercury fillings. The International
Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology (www.IAOMT.com),
for example, offers a shocking video called "Smoking Teeth" that
clearly shows mercury vapor off-gassing from mercury fillings, even
with minimal stimulation (like chewing or tooth brushing). How much
mercury? One thousand times the EPA's maximum allowable mercury limit
for air. Check out their must-see video at www.IAOMT.com.
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The mercury from this vapor
quickly travels
to the kidneys, liver, intestines, heart, brain and other organs. The
science is irrefutable, but most dentists aren't interested in real
science, it turns out. They just want to be able to continue using
mercury fillings based on the ADA-accepted consensus lie that mercury
is somehow inert and never leaves fillings.
The great wisdom teeth removal scam
I'm one of those rare
persons who still has all his wisdom teeth. This gives me more teeth
than most people, and I have yet to meet a dentist (other than a natural health
dentist) who didn't immediately suggest surgery to remove them.
Dentists' desire to remove wisdom teeth is entirely irrational. The
procedure generates lots of revenues for oral surgery (while causing
considerable pain and suffering on the part of patients), but it has
absolutely no rational justification, nor any real benefit, in most
cases. As you'll see in the study mentioned below, published in the British
Medical Journal, dental surgeries to remove asymptomatic wisdom
teeth are pure bunk.
The key discerning factor here, by the way, is whether
wisdom teeth are asymptomatic,
meaning that they show no signs of disease or discomfort. Today in the
UK, it is standard policy to avoid removing asymptomatic wisdom teeth.
After all, if they don't hurt and there's nothing wrong, why undergo
surgery to remove them? But in the United States,
it remains standard operating procedure to surgically remove even
asymptomatic wisdom teeth, simply because they are there. It makes
about as much sense as saying we should cut off everybody's fingers
because they have so many. (Don't give surgeons any new ideas, now.
This may be the next procedure promoted after bariatric surgery is
finally banned.)
It's all silly advice, of course. A dentist
looks in your mouth, and in three seconds, determines that you need
dental surgery? Hogwash. It's just a revenue generating procedure
that's dishonestly pushed onto patients who gladly go along with
anything their dentist says, even when it's utter nonsense.
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Surgery to remove wisdom teeth is worthless, says
British Medical Journal
(Partially reprinted from www.NewsTarget.com/001108.html)
In a groundbreaking report from the British Medical
Journal,
researchers who poured over thousands of studies detailing the efficacy
of medical and dental procedures have concluded that many popular surgical
procedures
are completely worthless. Among those is one of the most common
procedures performed by your dentist: the removal of so-called
"impacted" wisdom teeth. According to the BMJ, this procedure may
actually do more harm than good.
I don't trust dentists. I've long suspected dentists of
scaring
patients into undergoing unnecessary procedures in order to generate
more business. My suspicions were confirmed when I visited a dentist in
2001 for a basic checkup. After taking dental x-rays (another health
hazard, as new research is showing), my dentist fed me a scare story
about how I still had all my wisdom teeth, and that all those teeth
needed to be surgically removed. I was absolutely stunned.
My wisdom teeth were working just fine: no cavities, no
pain,
no problems. I had made an appointment for a routine checkup, not to
undergo expensive surgery for my wisdom teeth. But my dentist insisted,
relying on a variety of scare tactics to try to convince me to undergo
this expensive -- and completely unnecessary -- procedure. His behavior
was highly unethical. He was using his authority and position as "the
dentist" to try to scare me into accepting a surgical procedure that I
quite obviously didn't need. In fact, even he couldn't give me a good
reason for justifying the surgery other than to say, "We usually remove
the wisdom teeth quite early." Which means, of course, that they just
order the surgery for every child or teenager who walks into the
clinic, regardless of whether they actually need it.
Now, it turns out, the removal of wisdom teeth has been
found to be an
utterly worthless procedure to begin with. It "may do more harm than
good" says the British Medical Journal, after reviewing literally
thousands of case studies. So the typical dentist is really just hyping
a useless procedure, and if your dentist is anything like the dentist I
encountered, they're also using all sorts of highly unethical scare
tactics to try to force people into undergoing the procedure. That's
downright evil, and yet it's a common practice among dentists in the
United States.
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Folks, you need to start
questioning your dentist.
Don't believe everything they tell you. Often they're just full of
bunk, or they're trying to sell you on whatever procedure they get paid
for performing. They're not all evil -- many actually believe these
procedures will help you, which is why they seem so sincere -- but they
are grossly misinformed. Their beliefs are based on medical dogma, not
scientific fact. Their beliefs in these procedures are nothing more
than a sort of medical pathology, where certain things are just
considered "true" and never questioned even though the original basis
for accepting them as truth has been proven entirely false.
In the vast majority of cases, you will be healthier
and wiser by ignoring the advice of your conventional doctor or dentist
and seeking out a naturopathic doctor and a natural health dentist. In
fact, it's very important to avoid allowing a doctor or dentist to even
hit you with a scare story or other manipulation tactic, because most
people will just go right along with their advice even when it makes no
sense. People don't question medical authorities as much as they
should. And dentists know it. They know that most patients will just go
ahead and agree to practically anything they recommend.
That makes a situation where fraud and exploitation of
patients
is frighteningly easy to accomplish. Any dentist that wants to generate
more revenues for their office can simply start recommending an
expensive surgical procedure as "standard practice" and claim, "we
always take those teeth out." It might be complete hogwash, but most
people -- absurdly -- will buy into it. Don't let that person be you.
Keep your dentist honest. Better yet, seek out a "natural" dentist who
won't use mercury fillings or highly toxic fluoride, and who will turn
to surgery as a last resort rather than a "standard procedure." Don't
be tricked into unnecessary (and medically dangerous) surgical
procedures that can only cause you harm.
You may also want to check out this story about the
toxicity of fluoride.
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