Super article on the dangers of dental amalgam.

With 225000 people affected with 10000 new cases every year, Alzheimer's disease is progressing at an alarmingly, an impact that justifies the Alzheimer established by France. The disease that occurs around the age of 55 years on average, is a brain degeneration irreversibly changing to a deterioration of cognitive ability and awareness leading eventually to a total loss of autonomy. The cause this disease, because qu'incurable formidable, remains unknown to this day. Among the many suspected risk factors (such as genetic predisposition, depression, heart disease, anemia, brain injuries, sleep apnea, etc.). Include environmental factors such as exposure to the metal and various physical and chemical agents. Mercury Fillings The metals used in dentistry, mercury from dental amalgam fillings or in the lead, which constitute a source of permanent exhibition, and for many people almost for life, are not part of the avenues explored so far. "The recent interest for mercury, whose sources are fish consumption, dental amalgams and vaccines, can be properly documented with current data" soberly concluded a report by the CNRS based on two studies in 2003 and 2004. It's probably a little quickly discard mercury blamed in a 2001 study [1], conducted at the University of Calgary. Two researchers have demonstrated that low concentrations of mercury are capable of destroying brain cells. According to the study, the neurons damaged by mercury have similar characteristics to those people affected by Alzheimer's disease. A study in September 2007 [2] confirms that the mercury in fillings, as a neurotoxin, is a major accelerator of Alzheimer's disease. But the main source of mercury exposure in developed countries is represented by dental amalgam fillings or, half of Mercury compounds. Mercury escapes spray under the effect of chewing and irradiation due to corrosion of the amalgam in contact with the saliva. The mercury vapours inhaled directly back to the brain via the olfactory nerve. A loss of smell, caused among holders of fillings by the accumulation of mercury in the olfactory bulb, is also observed in people with Alzheimer's. It should be noted that tin and zinc, two other components of dental amalgam, are also recognized as neurotoxins. Diffusing ionization, they would enhance the destructive effect of mercury on nerve cells. Disturbingly, the incidence of Alzheimer's disease is higher in countries that use mercury amalgam for a long time. In Japan, however, where it employs little dental amalgam, the rate of the disease has remained much lower. Other metals used in dentistry Another risk factor is represented by galvanic currents (microcourants electric) produced by the inter-reaction of various metals in the mouth coexisting under the effect of saliva, environment conducive to trade electrochemical. These electrical currents, whose intensity can be several hundred millivolts, disrupt the functioning of nerve cells, based on the trading of electrical nature. The proliferation of different types of metals in the mouth increases the intensity of galvanisme, even more so if the saliva is acidic. There are now more than a thousand different alloys used for the realization of dentures. With the democratization of titanium implants, they are elevated metal increasingly important (implants, superstructure of the prosthesis attached to the implant), which are placed annually in the mouths of people in industrialized countries. France alone, an estimated fifteen tons of mercury each year are put into the mouths of french. And how many tons of nickel (Majority component alloys cheap), chromium, cobalt, titanium? It would be wrong to believe titanium perfectly neutral and stable. Like any metal, titanium oxidizes in the mouth in the presence of other metals, leaving escape ions (metal particles) that play in and adjacent tissues in the body. In addition, the titanium alloy that contains aluminum (also released ionization) neurotoxin involved in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease. Some metals such as zinc, aluminium, copper, cadmium, chromium are now recognized as could potentiate the toxic effects of mercury. When you know that all these metals are commonly used in dentistry, it is likely that each person in the industrialized world focuses on the palate and an explosive cocktail of high risk to encourage the development of Alzheimer's disease. Effective Prevention Finding and eradicating the real causes of the disease is the least we can expect of a plan AD. However, if the trail of mercury and metal dental has not been explored so far, it seems to be mainly for economic reasons. Obturation cheap and easy to install, dental amalgam, only material fully repaid to date, allowing Social Security to make substantial savings. Recognize the involvement of mercury fillings in Alzheimer's disease would certainly trigger a wave of panic and encourage a large number of porters amalgam to lay down their metal fillings. Social Security is not prepared to fund such an operation. As for titanium, who would dare question his neutrality now established as a fact through a communication action focused, while implantology booming represents colossal financial stakes? But is it reasonable to continue to engulf the colossal amounts not less, but still insufficient, in a plan aimed at Alzheimer care for dependants whose number is growing upstream because it was not deleted the real causes of the disease? Banish mercury, like Norway had done since the first in January 2008, minimise the use of the metal in dentistry, developing alternatives that exist, and manage acidity oral preventive measures are put in place urgently.