ME Association have a dental advisor they may have a leaflet about dental care or you could put a question to them through their website or Facebook
As a layperson I can't consider it in any way common sense to put Mercury deliberately into the mouth due to it being toxic.
This is what it says on the ME Association webpage:
https://meassociation.org.uk/medical-matters/items/dental-white-amalgam-fillings-me-cfs/
If Mercury was safe, it could be used on pregnant women and children, surely?
The issue of pregnant women (and by extension, breastfeeding women), is best explained by the general approach that all dental interventions regardless of materials used should be kept to a minimum during pregnancy; it is not a reflection on any specific safety concerns about amalgam.
The restriction on use in children under 15 is not based on any robust evidence. We can only assume that permanent teeth in young children might be deemed to have smaller cavities, which are best treated with alternative materials in accordance with a minimally invasive approach, but an explanation for this point has not been given.
No not significant. The WHO's 'no safe level' isn't a practical guide it's a 'worst case' statement where there's no possible way to estimate a minimum. Amalgam of course isn't pure mercury, but a very stable mixture of materials, so the two are not equivalent. UK dentists will follow the BDA guidance: https://bda.org/about-the-bda/campaigns/amalgam/Pages/minamata-convention.aspxIt says in this article that the WHO states there is no safe level of Mercury for the body. Wouldn't that be enough to cite to a GP when already ill especially? Also, I've seen a reference to a study, but can't find it that said there was 2-12 times the amount of Mercury in the skin of dead bodies who had mercury fillings than those without them. Isn't that significant?
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How mercury fillings wreck your health — Good Health Clinic
The Geiers were well known antivax quacks - I'm afraid nothing with their names attached should be considered scientific: Mark GeierI also found this https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25617876/
I think the ME Association Dentist advisor should be pushing for ME patients to be made exempt from amalgam fillings
The Geiers were well known antivax quacks - I'm afraid nothing with their names attached should be considered scientific: Mark Geier
I'm not inclined to put much effort in to reading stuff from authors I know to produce junk - I have though had a look. Firstly with one exception (Bjørklund - who is a journalist) all the authors have a close relationship with the Geiers (father and son) so there is no independent scientific authority involved. Secondly it's not a scientific paper as such it's a claim of evidence without any of the evidence being tested against a falsifiable hypothesis. It's the same trick the Geiers pull with thimersol and autism - throw out a lot of loose associations and claim there's a causal link without any actual evidence such a link exists, while ignoring the rest of the world shouting "Correlation does not imply causation" .Right, I didn't know one of the authors is an anti-vax quack. What is wrong with the study exactly?