Posted on 09/25/2014 2:55:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Your dentist wants you to clean your teeth. The federal government wants your dentist to clean his office.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a proposal to cut down on the amount of mercury that winds up in the water supply as a result of a routine dental procedure.
According to EPA, more than half of all mercury detected in public water treatment plants comes from discarded fillings.
EPA wants dental offices to adopt new systems that cut down on the amount of mercury and other heavy metals that wind up in the water.
Dentists have some flexibility in deciding how to comply, but the agency recommends that dental offices purchase a device that removes microscopic mercury particles from water before it flows down the drain.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
But what about CFL’s?
Seems reasonable.
A metals recovery business might do well in this area by collecting the remnants and other wash from dental procedures. They might make headway by offering to install the water recovery devices for free in return for the metals recovered.
Mail them to Carol Browner.
If amalgam, the mercury-silver-tin-copper alloy once used in dental fillings, has been in someone’s mouth for thirty years and hasn’t harmed them, then what harm is it going to do now? Amalgam was useful precisely because it does not react with hardly anything and because it does not break down easily.
This is precisely why I’ve been looking at overseas dentists to do my implants.
Dental costs, not covered by obamacare or medicare, will be doing up.
Mercury came from the ground, right?
Measurement technology has come a long way in the last 20-30 years. Just because something harmful is now within the limits of measurement technology does not mean we should necessarily regulate it more closely, when the primary result is more jobs for regulators and little good for society otherwise.
Mercury from fillings? The very type of fillings that have not been used for almost 40 years?
Amalgam fillings were designed for a 15-20 year life. I had some that lasted 35, but they are all long gone now. How many are really still floating around in people’s mouths.
There’s another, unspoken, side to this requirement. Who is the equipment maker with a brother in law at the EPA?
Mercury from fillings?
What about mercury from the new light bulbs that we have to buy? And that is free not chemically bound mercury.
Mercury came from the ground, right? —
Executive Order: Dig up all the ground and ship it to the moon (or maybe back to Mercury - ha ha).
Who is the equipment maker with brother in law that's a relative of Harry Reid at the EPA?
Needed a tweak.
The EPA prefers that Mercury be injected via vaccines.
I’m right there with ya, due to a work accident 10 year ago (they had no work comp and no insurance, so you know what I got... the shaft)...
I need 15 teeth replaced. I hate partials.
Buncha hooey.
If half the mercury is old fillings it shows two things.
First there is an insignificant mercury quantity that they are being pissy about,
And, it is not that toxic because IT CAME OUT OF PEOPLES MOUTHES.
Freaking Eco Nazis.
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