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Jag har ett problem! Jag använder inte längre kvicksilver på min tandläkarklinik och nu kan jag inte bli av med det, som jag inte tänkt använda på mina patienter! Dentalföretaget som jag köpte det av vägrar att ta tillbaka det kvicksilver som de SÅLT till mig? Nu måste jag lämna det till ett företag för giftigt avfall och det kostar en massa pengar. Men det finns ett sätt som jag kan bli av med det lagligt, och det är att göra amalgam av det och sätta in det i mina patienters tänder.
A Deadly Poison
I have a problem.
I no longer use mercury in my dental practice. Consequently, I have unused mer-cury in my office. I have tried to return it to the dental mercury manufacturers, but they refuse to accept it. I am re quired to pay an expensive disposal fee to a toxic waste fa-cility to get rid of it.
It is illegal under United States federal regulations for toxic waste to dispose of it in any other way, except one. The cheaper way to get rid of it (and the only other legal way) is to mix it with some metal dust and pack this paste into your teeth as fillings.
In fact, in 2004 alone, more than sixty thousand tons of mercury was placed into
patients? mouths as dental fillings.
No reputable scientist or doctor disputes the fact that mercury is dangerous and a poison. Although mercury is used in a variety of industries (including manu-facturing, mining, chemical engineering, and medicine), it is ?more toxic than lead or arsenic,?1 which are both heavy metals everyday Americans are taught to avoid.
If you?ve ever heard the phrase ?mad as a hatter,? it refers to the fact that mercury was once used in the making of fur hats. Hatters, those who made fur hats, would often go mentally insane because of mer-cury poisoning.2 The United States Occu-pation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Food and Drug Administration
