Links to educational videos
Sometimes, a picture says more than a thousand words.
A growing selection of important videos relevant to the aware "dental consumer"
Video: Mercury vapor shown to escape from dental amalgam
http://iaomt.org/videos/
Shows odourless, colourless and tasteless "Poison Gas" (mercury vapor) outgassing from an amalgam-filled tooth.
A full version of the video plays 40 minutes and contains interviews with experts in mercury toxicology, environmental medicine, IAOMT members and others as well as demonstrates safe amalgam removal (available from IAOMT).
For any doubters regarding the observed smoke truly being
mercury vapor, see "It Really Is Mercury!" at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qvNf4NVZvI
(Jerome Mercury Vapor Analyzer used to demonstrate that it is mercury.)
Video: How mercury causes brain fibre damage (neurodegeneration)
http://commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/
University of Calgary Medical School video entitled, "Retrograde Degeneration of Neurite Membrane Structural
Integrity of Nerve Growth Cones Following In Vitro Exposure to Mercury" connects mercury to Alzheimer's disease by presenting dramatic visual evidence of minute quantities of mercury's destructive effect on growing nerve cells.
Funded by the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT), researchers Leong, Syed and Lorscheider utilized digital time-lapse photography to visualize the damage to nerve cells that mercury
levels similar to or below those found in
the brains of humans with amalgam dental fillings cause,
This impressive video (also published
as a peer-reviewed article) "provides visual documentation of the biochemical mechanism by which the introduction of mercury induces hallmark diagnostic markers indistinguishable from those seen in the Alzheimer's diseased brain (neurofibrillary tangles). The authors note that, to date, no other material or metal tested, including aluminum, has produced even remotely similar reactions... 'Seven of the characteristic markers that we look for to distinguish Alzheimer's disease can be produced in normal brain tissues, or cultures of neurons, by the addition of extremely low levels of mercury [Alzheimer's diseased brain has been shown to contain dysfunctional
tubulin, creatine kinase and glutamine synthetase, hyperphosphorylated
tau, low levels of reduced glutathione, elevated amyloid protein and
neurofibrillar tangles]. In addition, research has shown that Alzheimer's diseased patients have at least 3 times higher blood levels of mercury than controls."
Video: ABC News on the dangers of mercury in dental silver fillings
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&guideContext=65.72&pmmsid=1715325
A 5 minute video on the dangers of toxic mercury contained in amalgam fillings (possibly only viewable by US residents).
Video: Safe Removal of Amalgam Fillings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIUrj7s3PA
A detailed visual demonstration of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology's (IAOMT) protocol for removing mercury (silver) amalgam fillings protecting both dental staff and patient from the invisible and visible toxic components released during removal of amalgam restorations.
Video: Tooth enamel degrades under citric acid attack
www.phy.bris.ac.uk/groups/nanophysics/research/images_hsspm/hsafm_tooth_enamel_degradation.mov
This movie shows hydroxylapatite "(tooth enamel), observed at high-speed after the addition of 10% citric acid to the water imaging environment. This causes an almost immediate degradation of the surface as small hydroxyapatite crystallites become loosened and leave the surface." (For a discussion of whether food acids damage or don't damage teeth, see eg Book extract: Dr. Herbert Shelton on the real reasons for tooth decay [dental caries].)