The mercury amalgam industry has claimed that patients with an average number of mercury amalgam dental fillings receive about as much mercury from the fillings as they get from the food they eat.
In the past it has been assumed that clinical poisoning occurs at about 6 times the natural level. [Most of the mercury comes from the food].
However the estimate of the mercury from the fillings by the WHO is about 6 times more than the amount claimed by the mercury amalgam companies.
Many patients have many more times the average number of fillings.
Some patients are much more sensitive than others.
In patients with gold fillings, more of the mercury is released due to the battery effectively created by metal fillings. Smoking also increases the amount.
Micro organisms in the body and environment can transform the mercury into methyl mercury which is 100 times more toxic.
Recent research by the WHO has established that humans are capable of detecting even 1 atom of mercury which can produce clinical symptoms.
