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Chapter 1
New Solutions for Dentistry
In 1968, I changed to a metal free practice because of my
dental assistant. One day my assistant said, “I love working
here, but something is happening to me, and I don‟t know what,
I have to quit working. I am so shaky; I cannot even write my
name.” Three years later after reading the story “Quicksilver
and Slow Death”, in the October 1972 issue of National
Geographic, I immediately realized why my assistant had the
shakes and why she had to quit working for me. The answer
was mercury poisoning.
Mercury is a neurotoxin! Neurotoxins affect the muscles
throughout the nervous system. Mad Hatters Disease was a
common term used over a century ago to describe the affliction
of the English hat makers who would dip their felt hats in
mercury, allowing them to shape the hats with their hands. This
procedure would cause the hat workers to lose control of muscle
movements and they would throw their arms and legs around as
though they were mad. My assistant was not that extreme,
thank goodness, yet she knew something was wrong.
The “Quicksilver and Slow Death” article made me realize she
was absorbing mercury though her skin while making mercury
amalgam forms for crowns. She had been using her fingers to
smooth the mercury amalgam dies from impressions of patient‟s
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