My Open Letter to the Dental Association and Unscrupulous Dentists

Dear American Dental Association, as well as some dentists who only care about money:

The reason I am writing this letter is to let go of my feelings of being victimized for so many years of my life simply because you failed as moral human beings by allowing such a highly toxic poison-mercury-to be placed in my mouth, knowing the dangers involved. I realize that it doesn’t matter if I am a man, woman, or child, if there is money to be made, especially on the desperation needs of the poor, you will deny the dangers no matter what. It doesn’t matter how much you deny the toxicity and try to downplay the facts, you dentists do this while you are standing right in front of a warning sign posted on your office wall which states that at the minimum, the mercury fillings cause cancer and birth defects. I make a point of asking every dentist I have been to about the safety or danger of amalgam fillings, and I get this same scenario every time. The truth is that you prey upon the poor. Everyone needs dental care, and when a low-income person comes to the dentist, you make most of your money on the repeated need to fill teeth using mercury amalgam. Most people don’t even know the dangers, and if they learn, it’s usually too late. This brings me to my personal situation.

I have suffered all my life from one ailment after another, despite my highly health-conscious diet and exercise routines. I was always referred to as the “sensitive one” or just treated like a hypochondriac. Let’s start with a list the well-known symptoms associated with mercury poisoning, things that I have personally experienced. Since I have personally experienced what follows, there is not a single soul who could convince me that the mouth full of mercury that I currently have is not the source of my suffering. When I go through list after list of what mercury poison causes, it just makes my heart sink to realize I have suffered from almost everything on the list.

·         Chronic fatigue syndrome – I was diagnosed with mild Narcolepsy at age 18 at UCLA…chronic fatigue?

·         Food allergies – diagnosed with celiac disease in 2007 – I never was able to get over 98 pounds until I was diagnosed and changed my diet.

·         Irritable bowel syndrome – diagnosed at around age 28.

·         Lupus – my current doctor suspected Lupus a year ago, but Lupus is very hard to diagnose.

·         Post-nasal drip, allergies, constant congestion, recurring bronchitis, and daily coughing whether I smoked or not; more recently, pneumonia; and, the newest one is the raging ear infection with loss of hearing in one ear for the past month.

·         Rapid deterioration of eyesight and eye infections as a child when I would wake up with my eyes glued shut. Also, ongoing irritation, redness, itching, burning, and light sensitivity.

·         Constant dry mouth with a sour, unpleasant metal taste in my mouth.

·         I think the worst of all – mental fatigue, loss of memory, learning disability, and general brain fog all the time.

·         A diagnosis of fatty liver disease, which is more exclusive to those with diabetes, the obese or heavy alcoholics.

·         A diagnosis of osteopenia, that of a 65-year-old woman and I was only 38 years old.

·         A diagnosis of ulnar neuropathy stemming from my left ulnar nerve to my right shoulder blade.

·         Cervical neck disk deterioration which, often, the pain could not be relieved by the chiropractor.

·         A visit to the emergency room last year for intense and ongoing pain, possible gallbladder problems that just couldn’t be diagnosed with an ultrasound alone.

·         Urgency to urinate frequently, frequent bladder infections, and kidney pain.

·         Another one that causes much anguish – the rashes – strange rashes that appear suddenly, usually associated with stress, on my face. This has grown to areas like my back at times, on my scalp, on my chest, and on several occasions, I have had a severe case of MRSA from out of nowhere.

·         As far as memory loss, there have been numerous times that I forget my own phone number, never remember the names of those I work with, sometimes I even forget my boss’s name. I forget math formulas 5 seconds after I just did them. Words get fumbled in my mouth as I am trying to get them out into a complete sentence. I can’t find the right words to tell people what I mean.

·         ADHD – I was diagnosed at around age 35, along with fragmented thinking, and the doctor thought I was blind and gave me her glasses to finish the evaluation.

·         Acid reflux appeared on the scene just recently, making it virtually impossible for me to complete my yoga classes.

·         Just recently, I found a link that explains how one acquires celiac disease; first through candida albicans, which I was diagnosed with-after probably suffering with it most of my life-at age 42. After taking a heavy dose of high level antibiotics for a spider bite, it felt like I was sitting on a campfire due to a flaming yeast infection. Candida is caused by constant use of antibiotics, and birth control pills, which was a pattern for me as well. The candida is theorized to cause small holes in the intestines, causing leaky gut, which then causes a myriad of problems when things leak into your bloodstream when they should NOT.

·         When I broke the bones in my foot in a car accident 3 years ago, for some ungodly reason, the bones just would not heal, cast after cast after cast.

·         When I got an EKG a couple years ago, the doctor took forever to return to the exam room. I glanced at the EKG readout, and it had a warning on it of an irregular heartbeat. The doctor finally returned, asked me if I was experiencing any chest pain, and then simply said, “Don’t eat eggs, your cholesterol is high.” I eat a diet of mainly low fat poultry, vegetables, and whole grains that don’t contain gluten. It is highly unlikely that I have high cholesterol, but very likely that something is throwing off my lab readings.

·         Intolerance to high and low temperatures. My hands and feet turn blue and I shiver in the slightest cold weather, and the heat is absolutely unbearable for me. It feels like I am going to self-combust. I get a butterfly rash all over my body and intense sunburn now as an older adult.

·         My skin becomes unbearably itchy for no apparent reason on different parts of my body. I will scratch sometimes until I bruise while I am sleeping.

·         I have horrible recurring nightmares many nights, when I can finally fall asleep. This is a complete change to the times I just can’t wake up. Then there are the night sweats that wake me because my sheets are drenched in sweat.

·         Over the last couple of years, I started getting debilitating, painful menstrual cramps that left me writhing on the floor. The only alternative I could find was getting Depo-Provera shots to make my period go away.

·         Muscle pain plagues me. My shoulder muscles don’t know how to be pain-free anymore, though I am trying hard to retrain them.

·         A super-sensitivity to noises-especially children yelling, swings squeaking, dogs barking, radios too loud, talking is too loud, noise is painful to me.

·         How about constant anxiety, fears, isolation, panic attacks, loss of self-confidence, loss of words, feeling overwhelmed, and daily feeling of life being an endless, joyless, struggle?

·         My teeth – where do I begin? I have 4 large mercury amalgam fillings that are leaking and the teeth are broken and 4 slightly smaller filling that I long to be removed, but it is going to cost me thousands of dollars, and I have to leave the country to do this. I probably also have cavitations and infections deep in my jaw from root canals that had to be done after amalgam filling ruined those teeth, and they fell victim, and on two side of my lower mouth, there are no teeth because it went one step further.

I pray that nothing stands in my way to go and have my mercury fillings removed in about a month. I just got my passport, and I am worried that I won’t have enough money; worried that I won’t be able to find someone to go with me, however many trips it takes; I am fearful of the pain involved; and, most of all, I am scared to death of the toxicity that will be unleashed in my body after removing the fillings. I am already taking many supplements to detoxify my liver before I go, as well as beefing up my immune system.

It worries me that my son has a couple of amalgam fillings in his mouth as well. He suffers from mood disorders, ADHD, depression, anxiety, lack of initiative; I suspect bipolar disorder, angry outbursts, and sadness, lack of self-esteem, poor memory, and OCD behaviors. He is only 18.

My question is: is there no conscious to such mass human suffering? The needless suffering? Isn’t it better to have a choice to just lose all your teeth instead of being slowly poisoned? It would have been nice to have a choice. Thank God for the dentists who have decided to stop putting mercury in mouths, and for those who go so far as to remove them. This is a silent holocaust that is going on. I wouldn’t be surprised if mercury amalgam is what caused my grandmother to die with Alzheimer’s, as well as my step-father who is suffering from it as we speak.

I will tell as many people who are willing to listen about what I have experienced, as well as what I have learned through extensive researching on this subject. Ultimately, after I have them removed, I will serve as a living proof experiment if my health improves as a result. Hopefully, it is not too late.

My final words are, “To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” To those of you who knowingly profited from the suffering of countless people as a result of mercury poisoning, I believe you will have your day when you experience an equal suffering for your actions – it is called karma. I do not wish bad karma on anyone, I just know that it exists, it has to. I also hope that mercury poison will stop hurting people, whether it is through dental amalgam fillings, coal burning plants, contaminated fish, vaccinations, or whatever the source. I have a hope that we haven’t destroyed everything on our Earth.