This 2011 report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies explores the need for dentistry to be better addressed in health programs. They explain, “Oral health care is often excluded from our thinking about health…This division is reinforced by the fact that dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants are separated from other health [...]
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011, 6:2 doi:10.1186/1745-6673-6-2 Abstract: It was claimed by the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR)) in a report to the EU-Commission that "....no risks of adverse systemic effects exist and the current use of dental amalgam does not pose a risk of systemic disease..." SCENIHR disregarded [...]
On December 14 and 15, 2010, the FDA convened a scientific panel to re-examine the issue of mercury exposure from amalgam dental fillings. Two private foundations, assisted by IAOMT, commissioned G. Mark Richardson, PhD, of SNC Lavallin, Ottawa, Canada, formerly of Health Canada, to provide the scientific panel and FDA regulators with a formal risk [...]
A significant relationship between mercury exposure from dental amalgams and urinary porphyrins: a further assessment of the Casa Pia children’s dental amalgam trial. David A. Geier • Thomas Carmody • Janet K. Kern • Paul G. King • Mark R. Geier Biometals DOI 10.1007/s10534-010-9387-0 Re-examining the primary data on urinary porphyrin excretion from the Children's [...]
The National Library of Medicine presents this excellent on-line, college level introductory course in toxicology. URL: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxtutor.html
In 2010, Hal Huggins, DDS, wrote this article about how DNA studies are confirming the findings of Dr. Weston Price. He explains, “Toxic dental materials have created much havoc in the dental profession, as well as in patient health, for nearly two centuries. Dental mercury fillings, nickel crowns (especially in children, called “chrome crowns”), root [...]
Paul Connet, of the Fluoride Action Network, writes a concise review of one important side of the case against community water fluoridation: It doesn't prevent tooth decay! View Article: Why We Doubt the Benefits of Swallowing Fluoride
The Scientific Advisory Board of the IAOMT is composed of world class professors of toxicology, pharmacology, biochemistry and medicine. They conclude that dental amalgam is not suitable for use in the human mouth. Read the entire statement, attached. View Article: IAOMT Scientific Advisory Board Position Paper on Amalgam
The 2009 IAOMT prepared the attached petition for a group of citizens as part of an effort to use all available legal means to overturn the FDA's classification of dental amalgam as a Class II device. The thrust of the petition is found in this quote: "We have no doubt that the FDA has the [...]
This authors of this renowned research article from 2009 explain, “This aim of this document is to provide health professionals, especially cardiologists and periodontists, a better understanding of the link between atherosclerotic CVD and periodontitis and, on the basis of current information, an approach to reducing the risk for primary and secondary atherosclerotic CVD events [...]
