Re: alternative to amalgams
[quote author=Bluestar]Have been really researching the alternatives to mercury amalgams and I am not satisfied with my findings.[/quote]
Me either.
I remember way back when I read Dr Hulda Clark's work, she was against metal and most plastic or composite fillings as well. Keep in mind most of her research was gathered via the use of a certain "synchrometer" device, which is, as far as I can tell, a sort of electrical bio-feedback device. The device itself has never been adequately explained from what I've gathered. She used it as a means for testing the purity of substances. She even claims to be able to test for toxins/microbes within specific organs of the body as well! Quite a claim.
Anyways, there's actually a whole book called the Synchrometer Science Laboratory Manual that she wrote dedicated to this synchrometer and the experiments she carried out with it. I'm not sure whether to classify it as scientific, pseudo-science or paranormal, but it does make for interesting reading! I have not tried to duplicate her experiments, and I know of no others who have duplicated them.
Now, as far as her work on examining the purity of dental materials, here is what she has to say:
[quote author=Dr. Hulda Clark - The Cure for All Advanced Cancers p69-71]The Syncrometer detects about 30 metals in any "gold" or "silver" filling. These include nickel, copper, cobalt, vandium, thallium, germanium, cadmium, mercury, platinum, titanium, and even uranium! In my Synchrometer studies, I have found copper, cobalt, and vandium to be present in every tumor. Seeping from both metal and plastic teeth, these metals are common denominators in advanced cancer cases. I have also found inorganic "bad" germanium in enough cases to consider it another common denominator. These begin to build up in your tissues in the early, tumor-forming stage. I am not sure whether these toxings play a role in actual tumor growth, but eventually they cause the anemia, liver failure, kidney failure, mutations, hypercalcemia, and immunity failure that causes death. So I want to emphasize again, that even if a magic want shrank your tumors, you are still in mortal danger unless you get your dental work done!
If you have plastic materials in your dentalware, I find they will seep urethane, maleic acid, malonic acid and various azo dyes. Methacrylate dentures even seep acrylic acid. Urethane and azo dyes have had decades of research in the past; they were found to be highly carinogenic. Maleic and malonic acids were found to be repiratory inhibitors which, in turn, case tumors to form. And acrylic acid, another carcinogen, is the same chemical that is made by frying foods in unsaturated fats. With so many well-studied carcinogens in dental materials, we should as a child's question: Have they ever been tested for carinogenicity? If so, what were the results?
Is it impossible to make plastics that don't have all these carcinogens? Not at all. The Syncrometer detected more dental ingredients that were free of them than those that had them. But if each dental material (such as composite, ceramic, glass ionomer) requires the use of ten ingredients, then the chances of finding the final restoration free of carcinogens is essentially zero. Using a Synchrometer, each ingredient could be tested separately for one dozen of the most harmful chemicals - not impossible - but quite impractical.
So to accomplish the two purposes of eliminating Clostridium infection and seeping carcinogents, you must extract teeth with large metal or plastic fillings, root canals, crowns or caps. They once were infected - before you had them "repaired". Now they are infected again and must be removed.
Why Is There Metal In Plastic?
Metal is not an essential ingredient of the plastic manufacture. How can plastic material become polluted with it? I can speculate on several ways, but the fact is I am not the only one finding it.60
Perhaps the use of inferior "practical" grade chemicals to make plastics with, or recycled ingredients, causes wholesale pollution of the dental materials with toxic metals, dyes or solvents.
I also find insufficient hardening of plastic in your mouth allows seepage of plasticizers, dyes, and other ingredients from the soft tooth.
Another possibility involves the chemical antiseptics used in manufacturing plastics. Although important, the are themselves polluted with metals, solvents and dyes. Pollution that stems from antiseptics spreads further and further. It is like having a wet kitchen sponge that drops to the ground; after that, dirt will be spread wherever the sponge is used to "clean" in a surface. Ultimately, there is nothing left unpolluted with the antiseptics themselves and the toxins found in them. Look at the assortment of antiseptics legal for use in the manufacturing processes, including the dental and plastic industries.61
60 - Benjamin, M., Jenne, E., Trace Element Contamination, Copper From Plastic Microlitre Pipet Tips, Atomic Abs. Newsletter, v. 15, no. 2, Mar-Apr 1976, p. 53. Sommerfeld, M., et al., Trace Metal Contamination of Disposable Pipet Tips, Atomic Abs. Newsletter, v. 14, no. 1, Jan-Feb 1975, p. 31.)
61 - A complete list of allowable solutions for food-contact articles is in the (U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR Ch. 1, 4/1/95 ed., &178.1010 Sanitizing solutions).
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So what to do? Unfortunately, she says that for those suffering from serious health problems, all fillings should be removed and anything that cannot be restored (such as root canals) should be extracted. Keep in mind she was a cancer researcher looking for ways to help cancer patients. Her proclamations may seem a bit dire, but one has to consider the audience in which she is writing too. Those with less serious health problems maybe be just fine with plastic or composite fillings, OSIT.
She does mention this in the same chapter:
[quote author=Dr. Hulda Clark - The Cure for All Advanced Cancers p89-90]Removing small amalgam fillings should be done very carefully, using a rubber dam, in order not to produce "dust" that spatters the entire mouth. Drilling out amalgam is a special skill. Find an experienced dentist. Only after your tumors are gone should you refill these cavities. The cavity is then filled with a paste of zinc phosphate or zinc oxide and eugenol. These compounds will be pure if purchased from a chemical supply company or if purchased separately from a dental supply company. (No premixed variety has ever tested pure by the Syncrometer.)
The cavity may also be filled with an inlay of Sculpture or Targis. Inlays are already hardened in the dental lab and did not seep in my experiments. A glue of zinc phosphate paste, purchased as two separate bottles, will be safe. If removing a filling kills the tooth so it can now feel nothing, extract it. If filling removal got so close to the nerve that you are now in pain, extract it also. Only shallow fillings are candidates for salvaging. [/quote]
From my understanding, zinc phosphate or zinc oxide can only be used as a temporary filling. Actually dentists use this substance as a base for some cavity fillings.
Here is a list of dental filling materials that Dr. Clark supposedly tested with her synchrometer and approved:
_http://livingnetwork.co.za/drclarknetwork/dental-work/dr-clarks-dental-materials/
FWIW.
