Is mercury toxic?

- Elemental mercury is toxic.

- Silver amalgam fillings, does it contain mercury?

- It does.

- Almost up to 50%?

- Yes.

- Mercury is a toxic substance.

- A lot of us have dental amalgams that contain mercury. Anywhere from 4-19 micrograms of mercury per day can leach out of your amalgams into your body.

- A single filling delivers micrograms of mercury which in mercury terms is a lot.

- Mercury is vaporizing from the amalgams and you have 80% of absorption through the lungs. This is a fairly dangerous scenario.

- When dentists go to dental school, they are taught that mixed dental amalgam is completely unearthed.

- They taught us nothing about protecting the staff from the dangers of mercury vapor.

- The amount of mercury vapor that is released from amalgam restorations is so minute.

- And so when a dentist goes in and grinds out dental filling, he is creating tremendous quantities of mercury particulate.

- They are dental drills — it runs at about 400,000 rpm and it sends a shower of micron-sized and sub-micron-sized particles everywhere. It's 10s of 1000s of parts per million.

- I have never seen levels of mercury this high. That's pretty much unheard of in any type of work environment.

- When a woman is pregnant, we hope that she's never exposed to mercury vapor as we know that it can pass the placenta and cause neurological problems in the unborn baby.

- Everyone working around hazardous chemicals and other toxic substances has a right to know of possible dangers and how to protect themselves.

- When patients see us dressed like this, there is no way they could believe that mercury is safe in their mouth.

- If you are exposed to mercury, we start seeing much more serious health effects, and these health effects would be:

- Chronic fatigue

- Double vision

- Couldn't sleep

- Depression

- Panic attacks

- Memory loss

- Lowered immune system

- Loss of vision

- Chronic headaches

- It brought an immediate problem in some individuals and a very long-term problem in others.

- I started having neurological symptoms.

- I didn't feel like a human being.

- In the deepest part of myself, I thought I was dying.

- People think you're crazy and you are not crazy, you have mercury poisoning.

- They’ll evacuate a public building for a broken thermometer, but each one of your mercury amalgam fillings has about the same amount of mercury.

- The toxin that can do the effect… You have it placed within inches of your brain.

- They have never done any safety studies on this product.

- Why is it that the ADA will not tell the public that mercury amalgam is harmful?

- Frankly, the American Dental Association welcomes new looks at all of the dental restorative materials.

- The American people have been overtly lied to by the American Dental Association and the dental branch of the Food and Drug Administration.