SMART vs PROTECT Amalgam Removal: What Is the Difference?
How the IAOMT SMART protocol and IABDM PROTECT compare for safe amalgam removal, what SMART requires, what PROTECT adds, and which your dentist follows.
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How the IAOMT SMART protocol and IABDM PROTECT compare for safe amalgam removal, what SMART requires, what PROTECT adds, and which your dentist follows.
Whether mercury in amalgam fillings is dangerous, how much vapor a filling releases each day, and why the removal method matters as much as the decision.
What biomonitoring shows about amalgam fillings and mercury in blood, urine and brain tissue, and why more filling surfaces means measurably more mercury.
Where mercury vapor from amalgam fillings travels once inhaled, how it crosses into the brain and kidneys, why it stays for years, and what it does to cells.
Whether amalgam fillings damage the kidneys, why the kidney is the main organ that stores inorganic mercury, and what urinary mercury and kidney studies show.
How mercury from amalgam crosses the placenta and enters breast milk, what cord blood and infant studies show, and why the placenta is no barrier to vapor.
Whether amalgam fillings are safe for children, what the Casa Pia and New England trials missed, and why variants like APOE4 make the average child a myth.
What research shows on mercury and autism, from maternal amalgam studies to thimerosal, where evidence is strong, where it is weak, and what to stop claiming.
How mercury from amalgam affects the thyroid, immune system and gut microbiome, including links to Hashimoto's, autoimmunity and antibiotic resistance.