hello I am Dr Adams and I'm a dentist here at Maryland Holistic
Dentist in Burtonsville Maryland and I'm doing a video about how to safely remove
amalgam mercury fillings and I just want to get you familiar with what we do
the video really will do two things first off it can serve as an educational
video the general public who may not be aware of how amalgams are safely removed
and also for individuals who are coming into our office to have amalgam fillings
from New York how we actually do it it's really not that difficult and I do
believe that considering the fact that there's mercury in these fillings that
for the safety of the patient and we don't want our office contaminated and
the protective cells it's really important that we have protection for
the patient we don't the pigeon swallowing or breathing the mercury gas
from the fillings are removed I don't want my office contaminated and I
certainly don't want to you know breathe air you know breathing the mercury vapor
that comes off the fillings amalgam fillings are roughly 50% mercury and
then there's a combination of silver and copper and other metals in the filling
and it's been proven that when people are chewing and eating and adds to their
fillings at mercury gas is released and it can be breathed and you know there's
some exposure to the patient however when we take it when we put the fillings
in which I never do and when the fillings come out that's when the
there's the maximum exposure so what we're talking about today is how to do
this safely so the first thing I wanna talk about is what we do leading up to
the treatment and this is a product made by Quicksilver Labs and all it is is
vitamin C it's a liquid form of vitamin C and basically what it does is just
enable somebody to boost your vitamin C's C levels up leading up to the
procedure and will give the patients the opportunity to in time
couple squirts underneath the tongue and you hold it there for 30 seconds and
it's able to go through the thin skin and underneath the tongue sublingually
and then they can you can get your vitamin C levels up before the procedure
vitamin C really is helpful for healing and detoxing and then after the record
felonies are removed there's another product it's called glutathione and
these are both natural substances we don't do any type of chemical based
detox the glutathione basically helps your cells get heavy metals and other
toxins out of the cells and into your blood so you can pee out you know
mercury or any other heavy metals that you can get into your system so we do
these simple things so this is charcoal this is activated charcoal capsules we
always give the patient one charcoal tap capsule before we take out any amalgam
fillings it's basically a binding agent so it'll grab onto any Mercker that's
released that happens to make its way into the stomach and then enable the
person to you know keep it out rather than having a lie in their stomach
this is helpful safety mechanism now let's talk about our basic setup so we
can protect ourselves in the patient I just want to show you we've got a full
all this stuff is thrown away when we're done with the procedures so we have a
full barrier for the patient they work glasses to protect their eyes and then
we have an oxygen source here this goes over top of the patient's nose and
there's going to be fresh pure oxygen coming out of the system we also have
nitrous oxide in here it's very helpful to keep the patients very comfortable
while you're taking the amalgam fillings out because we want them not to be
fighting over seizure but to be comfortable so that they're focusing on
healing detoxing and not fighting a procedure we also have a dental dam this
is a rubber dam once it goes around the tooth
I'm gonna say a little bit more about this once that's in place but this
enables us to be able to work inside the patient's mouth without having all the
filming fragments flying around their mouth and down their throat this is a
high-speed suction this will be placed in the patient's mouth by right behind
where the fillings are being removed and then we have another sucks in the work
speed such as placed behind the dam it might it should capture any little
particles or pieces that happen to get underneath the dam also it's helpful to
remove the saliva because people could start gagging and thanks during the
procedure we protect ourselves the doctor and the assistant with these mass
put these on and that way we can breathe and decreases our potential we might
inhale any mercury vapors and we're really concerned about contaminant in
our office so we have this vent here this event it's placed very close to the
to the work area and it draws air if you were cooking bacon you don't want to
smoke your whole house you have it then you turn it on and the mercury vapor it
goes through here and there's a special filter in here that that filters out the
mercury we don't want to have our office contaminated with Mercury we also have
one other thing that's great for the environment you know when we suction the
filming particles and everything else out of the patient's mouth of course
goes down the drain and into the public water system we have what's called an
amalgam separator which captures the particles and we have anis filtered it
gets replaced every year and that way we're not dumping I went to mercury
other stuff into the city water so with that being said we're
gonna go ahead and put the dental dam on and we'll show you how that works okay
we are looking at a few amalgam fillings that we're getting ready to remove
there's two on the lower left and two on the lower right as you can see there's a
little bit of gray halo in around the filling and that's what the fillings
have been leaking there's a little bit of decay for the most part it looks like
these fillings are pretty well placed they are probably 20 plus years old and
they're certainly beginning to fall apart and that's what we're doing
there's one more on the top but it's kind of tiny I just wanted to give
everybody a view of what we're doing here
okay here we go we've got our dental dams set up you can see that it's
totally isolating the the two mercury filling at least this filling area that
we're gonna be working on right here we've got the oxygen source so the
patient's more likely to breathe the air that comes through this nose and there's
some nitrous oxide running through there which helps the patient relax they're
gonna be breathing the oxygen and on any potential mercury vapors we've got our
vent that comes down that gets really close to the work area
we got mercury filter filtration for the assistants and the doctor
we've got saliva ejection which removes anything that might get behind a dam and
so either build up for the patient and then we got the high speed suction tube
that when we start give us place it in there but behind - as soon as we start
removing the mercury fillings that suction will come on and it pulls all
the particles out now there is a certain strategy to remove these spellings we
don't want to just take the drill and just obliterate the filling what we try
to do is carefully cut little pieces and have the
come out Moritz chunks as much as possible
we go
okay as you can see we've gotten me mercury fillings out open real big and
if you can closely see in there you'll see that the mercury will do some
staining to the bottom of the tooth I don't know how well you can really see
that but basically what we're gonna do right now is we're going to put some
ozone into the fours of the tooth because once you've gotten the fillings
out there's always a little bit of decay in there and we've carefully clean that
out and the this is a mixture of oxygen and ozone gas and what we do is we just
place that down into the tooth and it travels into the pores of the teeth
kills any bacteria and the oxygen promotes healing we are going to use a
porcelain thawing material it's a filling material made by the
company voco with the German product and its unique within the last couple years
it's come out and basically what it does is that if the microscopical uses glass
particles rather than plastic particles the filling materials we used to use
called composites are made plastic
that's wrong now that I can chop
so we're gonna do sucking shoes we're applying the O's on a second to
systematically minimizes the chances of someone having pain and sensitivity
professional in the internet over the - and I can't begin to tell you how many
routes now we have prevented people from having is just because you take out
mercury fillings and you put fillings in doesn't mean the teeth are gonna like it
and heal properly but I'm doing right now as I'm putting a
cleaning agent entities teeth with this cleans the the tooth next I'll be put in
a bonding agent these are all required materials there's no such thing as an
organic filling material I hate to tell you so what we do is we pre select the
safest materials that we can find on market their irritate people systems the
least and this is a product called clear fill this is the bonding agent that I
was talking about this makes the tooth very sticky and gets it ready to have
the filling materials stick and bond properly to the tooth
I always puff a little bit of air on these sends out
bond yeah the white we shine on there it actually
causes a bonding agent to set cure dry you know whatever you want to call it
this right here is a little stain that was left behind from that mercury we
don't always drill out all the stains because the more you throw out the more
likely you are at your tape the pulp of two we have two basic consistencies of
material this is a flow blur flowable or a more of running get ready to cure
please runny version that kind of fills the nooks and crannies so I use these on
the small little areas because it kind of flows in there all nicely yeah go
ahead shine the light
also the inner part of the tooth the yellow dentin is more soft than the
white enamel so this fallible material has a it's not quite as dense
so I also will use that and the very deep portions of any holes in this last
tooth it was quite a bit of decay underneath of the amalgam fillings so
I'm gonna replace the yellow dentin that is missing with that
I find it the more like the natural tooth and consistency these materials
are the better it feels when you chew on his teeth were designed a certain way
for a certain reason and if you've got a hard material that's too hard it sort of
deforms a little bit differently you guys I'm sure that next we have a more
dense material that's going to be used to replace the white enamel it's when it
cures it's quite hard performs more like enamel zero beg of course the patient
starts to get tired which is understand this is a couple big holes we'll need
some more material what we do is we pack this down in there
and typically will overfill the teeth a little bit find the finger always does a
good job - as long as we're using a clean Bluff okay
so again we'll overpack these is this the one that can with the gong yes yes
just gonna come up over your dad he's down nice
okay good turns out now we've got our teeth filled with porcelain filling
material and they look really good and there you have it that's how we safely
remove metal fillings