Case histories and symptoms of mercury poisoning from amalgam fillings – The toxic properties of mercury amalgam fillings are well known, and dental mercury has already been banned is in all the Scandinavian countries.
In the United Kingdom, dental technicians and dentists wear protective clothing when preparing or handling dental amalgam, and after dentists have removed dental amalgam fillings from their patients’ mouths, they must put them into sealed containers for eventual safe disposal so that mercury vapour from the removed mercury amalgam fillings cannot contaminate the eco system. If mercury amalgam is toxic for dentists and dental technicians and can contaminate the eco system, how can it be safe inside people’s mouths?
A meta-analysis of patients treated for dental mercury toxicity has shown that 89% of 1569 patients treated, experienced ‘that their symptoms had improved or were eliminated after safe replacement of their mercury amalgam dental fillings’.
Mercury from dental amalgam fillings is a systemic toxin that can contribute to the pathogenesis of any chronic medical condition, particularly to anxiety, phobias, Parkinson’s syndrome, multiple sclerosis, allergies, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, and strokes.
Dr Stephen Bourne (MB, MRCGP), an expert on this topic, recalls the following case histories and symptoms of mercury poisoning from amalgam fillings:
During 1981, a fifty-one year old patient with malignant hypertension and severe chronic migraine joined my NHS general practice. His symptoms did not respond to conventional medical treatment from his previous GP, from myself and subsequently from several private consultant physicians. He was eventually successfully treated by George Lewith MRCP (deceased), who identified high voltage mercury amalgam dental fillings as the causes of his refractory migraine and hypertension and referred him to a mercury free dental colleague for replacement of his toxic high voltage mercury amalgam dental fillings. The patient’s symptoms cleared up immediately after the dentist, who was a member of the British Society for Mercury free dentistry (7), replaced his high voltage metallic dental fillings.
At the time, the patient was incapacitated by chronic poor health. Since his high voltage amalgam dental fillings were replaced, he has led a full and active life and currently forty years later is aged eighty-nine.
Here is the patient’s account of his experience:
“In 1981, I was aged fifty one and seriously ill with malignant hypertension and migraine. Conventional medical treatment had not helped. My GP at the time, Dr Bourne, eventually suggested that I consult Dr George Lewith at his clinic in Upper Harley Street. Dr Lewith compared my amalgam dental fillings to ’having a battery in my mouth’. He used a simple DC voltmeter to measure the voltages at my amalgam dental fillings.
As an electrical engineer, I did not find it surprising that Dr Lewith identified my high voltage amalgam dental fillings (in excess of 1.5 Volts) as the causes of my migraine and high blood pressure. It is obvious that chunks of amalgam containing several different metals in acidic saliva form a battery, that would destabilise cerebral electrical activity, which would be demonstrable with an EEG.
The rest is history. Dr Lewith referred me to a mercury free dentist, who replaced my high voltage amalgam dental fillings. The result was quick and astonishing: the migraines and malignant hypertension ceased and there was a distinct improvement in my energy levels. Removing my high voltage amalgam dental fillings has proved to be a life changing procedure.”
Since specialising in integrative medicine in retirement from general practice, I have found that some chronically ill patients, who had not responded to conventional medical treatment, have high voltage metallic mercury amalgam dental fillings and that their symptoms improved immediately after these were replaced.
Here is a recent patient’s account of her experience:
“I first consulted Dr Bourne during August 2020 because I had been feeling abnormally tired for years. He identified two high voltage mercury amalgam dental fillings as the causes of my tiredness and advised me to consult a mercury free dentist with a view to having my high voltage mercury amalgam dental fillings replaced.
I initially visited a mercury free dentist in September and the fillings were replaced in November.
Since they were replaced, I have no longer felt abnormally tired and have been able to concentrate better at work. My tiredness actually cleared up immediately after the fillings were changed. Apparently, this was due to removing the sources of electricity in my mouth.
I used to have a sore throat every winter and this year it came back again in September. My sore throat also cleared up immediately after my high voltage dental fillings were replaced.”
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Dr Stephen Bourne (MB, MRCGP)