Do dental amalgam fillings contain a toxic material?
Actually, all of the elements comprising dental amalgam are toxic metals. Mercury is far and away the most toxic of them. Few people realize the severity of mercury as a toxin. Sharma and Obersteiner established that mercury is more toxic than lead, cadmium or even arsenic. Mercury vapor has a very high absorption rate and is capable of entering the human body very rapidly and completely. Mercury vapor is fat soluble and electrically neutral. It therefore has the ability to easily penetrate cell membranes and pass rapidly from the blood into body cells. • Does mercury exit the dental amalgam fillings? This is no longer an issue. The previous position of amalgam advocates that mercury is “locked” into the amalgam has clearly proven to be erroneous. Even the National Institute of Dental Research and the ADA have publicly acknowledged that mercury is released from dental amalgams after stimulation such as chewing or brushing. Dental amalgams become miniature batteries when placed in elect
