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Joachim Mutter har undersökt om amalgam är säkert och han finner att SCENIHR har fel i sin slutsats, i den rapport som SCENIHR lämnade till EU där det står “att det inte finns några risker för oönskade systemiska effekter och att den nuvarande användningen av amalgam inte innebär någon risk för systemiska sjukdomar”
Mutter visar genom obduktioner att kvicksilver från amalgam, är den största källan och att det överförs till organen samt att de med amalgam har höga halter i hjärna och njurar.
Is dental amalgam safe for humans?
Is dental amalgam safe for humans? The opinion of the scientific committee of the European Commission
Joachim Mutter
Department of Environmental and integrative medicine Lohnerhofstraße 2, 78467 Constance/Germany
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011, 6:2doi:10.1186/1745-6673-6-2
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.occup-med.com/content/6/1/2
Received: 23 March 2010
Accepted: 13 January 2011
Published: 13 January 2011
© 2011 Mutter; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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…” [1, available from: SCENIHR report on mercury amalgams to EU- commission… / ec.europa.eu/ health/ ph_risk/ committees/ 04_scenihr/ docs/ scenihr_o_016.pdf webcite
SCENIHR disregarded the toxicology of mercury and did not include most important scientific studies in their review. But the real scientific data show that:
(a) Dental amalgam is by far the main source of human total mercury body burden. This is proven by autopsy studies which found 2-12 times more mercury in body tissues of individuals with dental amalgam. Autopsy studies are the most valuable and most important studies for examining the amalgam-caused mercury body burden.
(b) These autopsy studies have shown consistently that many individuals with amalgam have toxic levels of mercury in their brains or kidneys.
(c) There is no correlation between mercury levels in blood or urine, and the levels in body tissues or the severity of clinical symptoms. SCENIHR only relied on levels in urine or blood.
(d) The half-life of mercury in the brain can last from several years to decades, thus mercury accumulates over time of amalgam exposure in body tissues to toxic levels. However, SCENIHR state that the half-life of mercury in the body is only “20-90 days”.
(e) Mercury vapor is about ten times more toxic than lead on human neurons and with synergistic toxicity to other metals.
(f) Most studies cited by SCENIHR which conclude that amalgam fillings are safe have severe methodical flaws.
Dental amalgam is the main source of mercury in human tissues
SCENIHR (Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks) from the European Commission claim [1]: “Exposure to mercury is difficult to measure. The indications for mercury exposure are therefore normally obtained by measuring mercury levels in urine and blood of individuals.”
SCENIHR did not cite any autopsy studies, which are the most reliable studies for assessing mercury levels in tissues.
An approx. 2-5-fold increase of mercury levels in blood and urine in living individuals with dental amalgam as well as a 2-12 fold increase in several body tissues was observed in deceased individuals with dental amalgam [2-21]. Additionally, studies with animals have confirmed the fact that dental amalgam leads to significantly increased levels in the tissues [22-28].
According to these studies, dental amalgam is responsible for at least 60-95% of mercury deposits in human tissues. This was not acknowledged by SCENIHR.