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In 2006, Michael Bender, director of Mercury Policy Project testified in front of the FDA's dental product panel. Michael explained in great detail how thousands of Norwegian dental nurses had suffered neurotoxic effects from occupational exposure to mercury vapor. Other adverse health effects included: tremors, memory and concentration problems, liver and kidney problems, depression, extreme fatigue, anxiety, mood swings, vision disturbances, diarrhea, menstrual and muscular problems. 
Dr Michael Margolis presents evidence to the FDA's dental products panel in 2010 that mercury from amalgam fillings is absorbed into the gum and jaw bone
Dentist Dr. James Hardy DMD is author of the book, Mercury Free: The wisdom behind the global consumer movement to ban "silver" dental fillings. For 30 years he has had a mercury free dental practice. In this video he presents his testimony to the FDA's CDRH Townhall in Orlando March 2011
Susan Runner of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) explains how mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings (which release various amounts of mercury 24/7 ) is safe for children.
Freya Koss, director of the Pennsylvania Coalition For Mercury Free Dentistry delivers her testimony to the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) in Orlando Florida.
MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARDat the Town Hall discussion with the director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) September 22nd, 2011.CDRH is the office within FDA that has failed to protect consumers by not making amalgam a class 3 device nor requiring amalgam manufacturers to prove safety. Registration requests must be received by 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 9, 2011.
When FDA's Center for Devices showed up in Orlando for the public Town Hall Meeting on May 5th, an impressive group of professionals and consumers confronted Director, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, the apologist for the abysmal Amalgam Rule. Floridians turned out en masse outraged over FDA's failure to protect even children from dental mercury.
Bernard Windham of Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions gives his testimony at the Orlando townhall hosted by the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) which is responsible for classifying and regulating dental mercury amalgam fillings.
The government should abandon a 35-year-old system for approving most medical devices in the U.S. because it offers little to no assurance of safety for patients, a panel of medical experts concludes in a report Friday. The surprise recommendation from the Institute of Medicine panel calls for a massive reworking of how the government regulates medical devices. Dental Amalgam Fillings are considered a medical device.
When covering the 2010 FDA dental products panel hearing on the safety of dental amalgam fillings, the press widely promoted the "red herring" comment from FDA panelist, Susan Griffin (of the EPA). The comment was directed at the assertion that the Fawer study should not be relied on for the basis of a risk assessment because many of the workers in the study were also exposed to chlorine, which inhibits uptake of mercury (up to 40%).
The American Dental Association sent a critique of Mark Richrdson's dental amalgam risk assessment to the FDA and described it as "seriously flawed". Yet there are so many inaccuracies and falsehoods one must wonder if the ADA even bothered to read the risk assessment as their critique is so offbase as to render their opinion uninformed and obsolete. In light of their intent to misinform the FDA, Dr. Mark Richardson responds to the ADA critique with this rebuttal.
In December 2010 the FDA convened a dental products panel hearing on the safety of dental amalgam. Since that time, Dr. Raymond F. Gist, president of the American Dental Association (ADA) has continually misrepresented the results of these hearings to the public and its membership. Luckily the current availability of the hearing transcripts has allowed the IAOMT the opportunity to correct any misconceptions that may arise from Dr. Gist's statements.
Dr. Michael D. Fleming currently serves as the Consumer Representative on the Dental Products Panel at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the FDA and has served on two separate hearings on the safety of dental amalgam in 2006 and 2010. In this video he expresses his views on the need for informed consent in regards to dental mercury amalgam fillings.
FDA's Director of the center for devices and radiological health (CDRH) knew Sweden banned mercury fillings for health reasons yet misrepresented those findings and chose not to update their fact sheet on dental amalgam which stated the opposite
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