Safe Dental Materials List

Which Dental Materials Are Safe?
Find out what Dr. Marvin Uses!

Dr. Marvin’s Safe Dental Materials List

Please remember that these materials are not good for everyone.  In other words, you may be sensitive to some or all of these materials.  That’s why we incorporate several different methods to determine biocompatibility.  Here are the three methods:

1. Electrodermal Testing (EDT) or Electrodermal Screening (EDS) or Electroacupuncture according to Voll (EAV)
2. Applied Kinesiology aka Muscle Testing
3. Blood-Serum Testing using Clifford Reactivity List and Biocomp Laboratories

Which one is best for you?

That depends.  We’ve seen instances where one patient is ok with the Blood Serum testing for a material but when we muscle test them, they are “weak.”

Just remember that most dentists do not use biocompatible materials.  They use what works best in their hands.  In fact, most don’t even know or use the word biocompatible.  It is in my opinion that they should know what’s IN the dental materials before they use them.  AND… it is important for you to ASK.  I mean… it is your mouth and your money so please make that extra effort to ask the dentist what it is.

WARNING:  This list has changed multiple times in the past year.  We always stay on the cutting edge of new dental products and sometimes patients come to us with better, more biocompatible products.  When that happens, we’ll up date this list.  So keep this list handy and check back here often for updates.  I can honestly say that I’ll be updating this list (taking off products and adding dental materials) about every 3 months.

Fox News Expert: Fluoride Has Been a Big Experiment

Interesting video from a Fox News segment recently. They had their guest expert on who was a dentist to discuss fluoride. This dentist calls fluoride a “big experiment” and talks about how many unfluoridated communities have LESS decay than fluoridated communities.

Take it for what it’s worth, but it’s yet another sign that dentistry is slowly (and begrudgingly) coming to realize that much of what the industry has supported for the past 50 to 100 years has simply been flat out wrong.

It’s time to stand up and admit to mistakes in order to protect the population — instead of protecting the special interest groups.

Evidence That Mercury from Dental Amalgam May Cause Hearing Loss in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

The leaching of toxic mercury from amalgam fillings has been implicated in hearing loss. Mercury toxicity has also been linked to multiple sclerosis (MS). It is believed that the toxic effects of mercury cause damage to the blood brain barrier, demyelination (damage to the nerves’ myelin sheaths) and slowing of the nerve conduction velocity. This experiment involved seven women aged 32-46 years who had been diagnosed with MS. The women underwent a standard hearing test in a sound booth and then had all their amalgam fillings replaced with composites. Six to eight months later they were again given the hearing test. Six of the seven patients had significantly improved hearing in the right ear and five of the seven showed improvement in the left ear. Overall, hearing improved an average of eight decibels. The conclusion is that amalgam fillings may be a significant factor in hearing loss experienced by MS patients and could be a factor in hearing loss in other people as well.

Siblerud RL, Kienholz E. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. 1997. Vol. 12. 240-44.

The Enigma of Parkinsonism in Chronic Borderline Mercury Intoxication

A 47 year old female dentist suffered from hemiparkinsonism which had started eighteen months earlier and was manifested mainly by resting tremor and cogwheel rigidity. A baseline quantitative urinary mercury excretion was 46 micrograms/day. The patient was treated with chelating agent d-penicillamine for a week. Chelation therapy resulted in clinical improvement of parkinsonism and in dynamic changes in daily urinary mercury excretion with a prompt increase to 79 micrograms/day, a subsequent decline followed by increase in the mercury urinary excretion. After a week chelation therapy was stopped. During a follow-up period of five years, the neurological status remained unchanged after the initial penicillamine-induced improvement. This case may be evidence, therefore, of a rare clinical variant of elemental mercury intoxication associated with parkinsonism, in the absence of most classical neuropsychiatric signs of chronic mercurialism.

Finkelstein Y, Vardi J, Kesten MM, Hod I. Neurotoxicology. 1996 Spring; 17(1):291-5. 8784840 PubMed

Occupational Metal Exposures and the Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

Occupational exposure to specific metals (manganese, copper, lead, iron, mercury, zinc, aluminum and others) appears to be a risk factor for Parkinson’s disease (PD) in some, but not all, case-control studies. These epidemiological studies are reviewed. Several methodological issues that may account for the lack of unanimity of findings are discussed, and suggestions for improved case-control methodology are offered. The study of the neurological disease outcome of workers who have had long-term, well-defined occupational exposure to one or more metals is also urged, with collaborative work including industrial hygienists, occupational toxicologists, neurologists, epidemiologists and biostatisticians. Such efforts, employing state-of-the-art case and control ascertainment and enrollment from suitable population bases, neurological diagnostic rigor and exposure assessment, will help to further define the potentially important roles played by metals in PD and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Gorell JM, Rybicki BA, Cole Johnson C, Peterson EL. Neuroepidemiology. 1999; 18(6):303-8. 10545782 PubMed.