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Tests for mercury?

  • 04-08-2014 9:17am
    #1
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭


    Another thread about mercury... sorry! :o

    But really just wanted to ask what kind of test would indicate mercury vapour is or is not escaping from an amalgam filling?

    I ask because a friend of mine has been advised to have his fillings tested because he is "toxic" :rolleyes: There seems to be a lot of quackery out there with electrodiagnostics and the like so just wondering if there is any real test for detecting if anything is being emitted from an amalgam filling.

    Just to add I've no issues with amalgam fillings myself, some of best fillings are lovely big silver ones!!


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  • #2
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    suggest to your friend to read bad science by ben goldacre. i know i'm not giving you an answer, but it explains excellently how some quacks prey on people by scaremongering, and how to ask for proper scientific evidence. if i had my way, it would be on the leaving cert curriculum.


  • #3
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭sudzs


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    suggest to your friend to read bad science by ben goldacre. i know i'm not giving you an answer, but it explains excellently how some quacks prey on people by scaremongering, and how to ask for proper scientific evidence. if i had my way, it would be on the leaving cert curriculum.

    Will pass that on to him, thanks very much for the tip. Might buy that book myself! I've been trying to dissuade him but his GP swears by the guy who has told him he is "toxic" so he is following up on the mercury testing instead of insisting on a referral from the GP to see a consultant.


  • #4
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    he should consider changing GP too. it's nuts that alternative therapy should be suggested. this is like going to rosanna davison for dietary advice..


  • #5
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭sudzs


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    he should consider changing GP too. it's nuts that alternative therapy should be suggested. this is like going to rosanna davison for dietary advice..

    Yes I've suggested changing GP but he's with him for years.

    And remember when alternative therapy was known as complementary therapy. Far better name for it imo.


    But the good news is that he is going off the idea of the electrodiagnostic mercury testing!


  • #6
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Any dentist claiming that amalgam filling are toxic has a very poor grasp of the science and literature or is a spoofer trying to drum up business.

    The amalgam filling will be giving off minuscule amounts of mercury that pose no health risk what so ever. If your friend is worried about mercury he should look into his diet where he/she will be getting orders of magnitude more than from a head full of large amalgam fillings.


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