Karen Burns - Dental Assistant from NJ
“Seems like every dime I have has gone to doctors to try to get this mercury from my body."
I am going to keep this short and sweet, given the fact that we have 3 minutes to deliver our testimonies.The FDA needs help as many of you have heard in the news, the Vioxx incident. Avandia, I heard that was bad four years ago, yet they just took it off the market recently.
I am not going to go over all my conditions, you have heard them over and over by others who have testified. We are all sick, with the same conditions.
Today I want to speak to the panel and urge them to help the FDA do their job. I testified at the FDA hearing in 2006. I watched the FDA panel vote 13-7, based on the fact that they could not prove amalgam was safe. I don't know what happened after that. It seems like they didn't do anything except make claims of safety without proof.
I lost my job due to disability seven years ago, I have two kids in school. Seems like every dime I have has gone to doctors to try to get this mercury from my body.The public has a right to know about the mercury in amalgam fillings. A lot is talked about labeling and wording yet a patient never sees the label. I never saw the label as a dental assistant.
"The public has a right to know about the mercury in amalgam fillings.”
In 2009 when the FDA had the nerve to take down their warning, [off the FDA website, editor's comment] Dr. Susan Runner lied to the press and said that the FDA has only received 141 adverse reaction reports. She told me she didn't tell the press, which was a lie. They had it in quotation marks! I asked her what happened to 2,000 reports they had in 2006. She said that she considers all of them when making decisions. I think the only one she considers is herself. I heard she was fearful of losing her job. She better hope that she doesn't get sick like I did and so many other dental workers. Not only will she lose her job, she will lose her life as she knows it.
In closing, I ask again, help the FDA do the job that they are paid to do and ban amalgam fillings for the safety of the patients and all the people who work in dental offices. We only hear some of the stories. If people were tested for heavy metals during routine visits to their doctors, a lot more would know they have heavy metal toxicity, which is linked to so many illnesses.

What began with debilitating fatigue, grew to accompany insomnia, blurred vision, painful sinus headaches, extreme allergies (to everything), food intolerances, candida, never-ending chronic infections, exhaustion, a consistent feeling of being tired yet wired, and hypo-thyroid issues. Everything became incredibly overwhelming. Darkness clouded over me like a shadow of death; I became depressed, anxious, and frustrated. I had gone mad, and my life had fallen apart. I was living in a bubble, and a normal existence seemed like an impossible dream.
Rebecca Lee's eight mercury filling removals sent her health into a tailspin. Read on as she tells of her health hegira (a journey, especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation).
In 2005, I received 7 amalgam fillings and afterwards saw my health spiral downward. It wouldn't be until years later that I would pin-point the destruction of my health to this event. I remember shortly after that dental appointment, I became ill routinely. My mother said to me "You haven't been well since you went to that dentist" - And that always stuck in the back of my mind.
My name is Stacy Case. I am a mom, wife, believer, journalist and a fighter. In 2008, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. All of my neurological symptoms started right after I had my silver fillings removed and replaced with more silver fillings. I later learned each filling is made of 50% MERCURY!
Flight attendant Denise Knight shares her story of extreme mercury toxicity from unsafe amalgam removal.
Looking back it's hard to believe that I didn't figure things out sooner. I was perfectly placed to know exactly what was going on. I was conscious about toxins of all kinds and took supplements to keep myself healthy. And yet, when I fell ill with mysterious symptoms eight months after I got my amalgam fillings removed, I had no idea that this could be caused by mercury.
Veterinarian Hanne Koplev suffered for years from possible heavy metal induced Parkinson's Disease
12 years ago I went to the dentist. Immediately, I notice I could not hear to well. I was tested, 40% hearing in right ear, 60% hearing in left ear. I received implant hearing implant in my left ear. My vision was blurry. I received my first pair glasses. I started stuttering, then my foot was hurting.
This is the account of how my wife was affected by mercury poisoning: It started with symptoms ranging from unexplained anxiety, palpitations, struggling to breathe, light headedness and in the final stages of her illness, pins and needless over her body. Her arms and legs became very weak and she would frequently feel as if she were going to pass out.
Plagued with allergies, vitiligo, and Hashimoto’s thyroid, I attended a medical lecture featuring a panel of doctors, one of whom spoke about autoimmune diseases and offered a warning that would change my life. “If you are in your thirties and forties and have been suffering from autoimmune diseases,” he said, “it may be connected to the amalgam fillings in your mouth.”
I suspected my health was being impacted by my dental amalgams but dismissed the idea as I trusted the scientific integrity of the dental and medical community. I assumed the anti-amalgam community to be unscientific alarmist. I expected to find little or no scientific work on the subject, but was shocked to find hundreds of peer reviewed studies.
In 2007, I was training rigorously for the 2008 U. S. Women's Marathon Olympic Trials when my health took a down turn. My training abruptly ended as I began experiencing neurological symptoms, gastrointestinal distress and major fatigue.Lucily, I was able to pinpoint the underlying cause, mercury toxicity.
I am a survivor of mercury poisoning which stemmed from having 16 mercury dental amalgam fillings by the time I was 24 years old. I've suffered from a number of neurological issue, including: depression, panic attacks, social anxiety disorder, stuttering and heart palpitations. I reached a point in my life where I wanted god himself to take my life and I wanted to die.
Thanks to Champus (federally-funded health program for military dependents) I ended up w/ 7 fillings that completely cover the chewing surface when I was 10 which caused immediate horrendous headache / toothache / earaches plus hyper-sensitivity to cold that persists to this day.