WHAT CAUSES THE MERCURY TO ESCAPE?
Recent research in Sweden has concluded that the static unstimulated release of mercury vapor from amalgam fillings, which goes on 24 hours a day 365 days a year, is a major contributor to total mercury body burden. (15)More recently, a 1992 study by Professor Skare of Sweden found that fecal excretions of mercury were twenty times greater than the corresponding urinary excretion. Successive scientific research has now demonstrated: 1) large amounts of mercury vapor being released during chewing and continuing for an additional 90 minutes after stimulation; 2) static unstimulated release of mercury vapor goes on continuously 24 hours a day; and 3) confirmation of studies done by Stock in 1934 and Frykholm in 1957 demonstrating that the body uptake from inorganic mercury swallowed with saliva can be as much as hundreds of micrograms per day for individuals with a large number of amalgam fillings. (18-19) Whether stimulated release is caused by the grinding and chewing action, or an incr
