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Separate Search Page Maine Dentists Required to Inform Patients About Amalgam DangersMaine Governor Angus King today signed the most advanced bill in the United States requiring dentists to inform their patients that amalgam dental fillings contain a large percentage of the toxic element mercury, which can be harmful to the wearer's health. In his preliminary remarks before signing the bill, Gov. King noted that Maine has probably taken more action to get mercury out of the air and water than any other state in the union. "And yet we all carry it around in our mouths," he remarked. Senate President Michael Michaud spearheaded the bill and Representatives Joanne Twomey and Steven Stanley, all of whom were present, spoke at the signing. Consumer advocates Pam Anderson and Dr. Tom Anderson, a mercury-free dentist from Houlton, ME, who led grassroots support for the bill, participated in the ceremony as well. Maine Senate President Michaud cited the courage of the many individuals who testified on behalf of the bill, especially the dentists who came forward to endorse it despite the opposition of the American Dental Association. "We hope that the U.S. will take Maine's lead and move forward with legislation at the national level," he said. The bill mandates that every dentist's office will feature a poster and a brochure informing patients about the presence of mercury in amalgam fillings and about its negative health effects. Scientific research has shown that dental amalgam is the chief source of mercury in the human body. For that reason Rep. Twomey described the bill as a major step forward for women of childbearing age and for children, who receive their first exposure to mercury in the womb and from their mother's breast milk. Mercury has been implicated in neurological disorders of children such as autism and ADD/ADHD, and in fertility problems in women. "We are delighted that this bill has been signed," said Rep. Stanley. "It is a major step forward to protect the health of Maine citizens." Pam Anderson added that the group hopes Maine's next step would be to ban the use of dental amalgam in all women of childbearing age and in children. "The public is being deceived by the terminology used for these fillings," said Charles Brown in his remarks. "The ADA calls them "silver" fillings, but they are really mercury fillings. If people knew the principal ingredient is mercury they would not want these fillings in their teeth." Gov. King compared the current use of mercury in dental fillings with the 1950's use in shoe stores of powerful x-ray machines called fluoroscopes, which exposed hundreds of thousands of adults and children to high doses of toxic x-rays. "Every child who went into the shoe store to buy new shoes would put his feet into the fluoroscope so the bones could be seen," King recalled. "People who worked in the store were exposed to the radiation all day; children played games around the machine. Now we realize it was a terrible thing to do, but then it seemed perfectly normal. Some day we will wonder how we could ever have put such a toxic substance into the human mouth." Dental Truth August 30, 2001 International Fluoride Information Network Bulletin #347 August 31, 2001 DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: Thanks one again to the Fluoride Action Network for sending this important and very encouraging news. Maine really seems to have one of the most effective anti-amalgam groups in the country. I am not sure why this is, but my hats off to them. We need more aggressive action like this across the country, so the US could actually start on a program to restrict the use of this highly toxic substance that is slowly eating away at the health of our society. If you have the time you can email, call, or fax Governor Angus King and the State Legislators who introduced and supported the bill, with some support for what they did. They will likely be getting plenty of criticism from the ADA and others for this courageous act.
COMMENTS from Paul Connett, PhD, Fluoride Action Network: For over 100 years the American Dental Association (ADA) has stated that mercury amalgams are "safe and effective" and that are no studies which indicate any health problems associated with having mercury in the mouth. They were wrong of course, and they probably knew they were wrong, but they stonewalled for as long as they could none the less. To state the obvious, now that the authorities in Maine have recognized the ADA was so seriously wrong on dental amlgams, could they now re-examine that other issue (water fluoridation) that the ADA claims is "safe and effective"?
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