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Dentures become black and cracked, be careful!Doctor reveals that “Element 1” has deteriorated seriously and may cause Alzheimer’s disease

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“Teeth” can be said to be the primary hurdle to protect human health, and it is also the most frequently used part of the body. The information revealed by the mouth is not only about the health of the teeth, but also sleep apnea, Alzheimer’s disease, malnutrition, And appearance is closely related to oral cavity. Huang Binyang, the director of Bodeng Dental Clinic, shared the methods of oral health care in the book “Doctors insist on your health” to help readers build healthy body functions.

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Brain Lesions to Avoid: Alzheimer’s Disease
It is not too difficult for modern people to live to 70, 80, or even 90 years old. However, it is not enough to live old. You have to live healthy and energetic to enjoy the longevity dividend. Many people are aware of this, so when they enter middle age, they will actively exercise or take health care products, hoping to grow old healthily and gracefully.

However, when it comes to dementia, most people can only shake their heads and sigh. Because it will not only bring great distress and inconvenience to patients or their families. Moreover, relying on the current medical technology, it is still impossible to fully control it. We all know that dementia is a brain disease. Affected patients will have cognitive decline, behavioral changes, emotional abnormalities and other problems.

According to the survey conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the population statistics conducted by the Ministry of the Interior in 2021, the prevalence rate of dementia among the elderly over 65 years old in Taiwan is about 7%. In other words, there is one dementia person in every 13 people.Among dementias, “degenerative dementia” is the most common, and the familiar “Alzheimer’s disease” is one of them. About 60% to 80% of dementia patients suffer from Alzheimer’s disease mutism.

Further reading:
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Alzheimer’s disease is irreversible, prevention is the best way to deal with it
Maybe you have Alzheimer’s patients around you, or you have heard stories of the helplessness of the patients and their families, so I sincerely hope that similar regrets will not happen to you and your family. Unfortunately, there is currently no effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. What is even more frightening is that it is an irreversible disease, that is to say, once the disease occurs, all that medicine can do is to delay the process and improve the symptoms, but it will eventually become more and more serious. Therefore, “prevention” is one of the important countermeasures for people to face this disease.

Thanks to experts in the fields of neurology and neurology, who continue to explore the causes of Alzheimer’s disease. There are also some research results that let us know the specific methods to reduce the probability of Alzheimer’s disease. For example, adopting a Mediterranean diet, exercising regularly, maintaining social relationships, and playing more brain-training puzzle games are all ways to help prevent it.

As a dentist who protects oral health, I want to discuss several risk factors that may be related to Alzheimer’s disease from the perspective of the oral cavity, from small to large, from the aspects of filling, reconstruction, disease, and missing teeth. These include silver dust in poor condition, poor quality metal dentures, periodontal disease and missing teeth.

We cannot arbitrarily say that avoiding these risk factors can completely avoid the threat of Alzheimer’s disease. However, since you know there are these potential dangers, you should try your best to understand them and avoid risks as much as possible.

Further reading:
Abnormal sense of smell, yellow pus and mucus ⋯Because of dental problems!Doctor’s warning: don’t mistake it for a cold

One of the risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease: Silver powder in bad condition
“Dr. Huang, I heard that silver powder is not very good! Why is it bad?” “I used to use silver powder to fill my teeth! Do I have to worry about it now? Or forget it?” Often patients come to deal with oral problems, Also asked about my opinion on silver powder. They may have read relevant reports in newspapers and magazines, or they may have heard similar discussions. They know that there is a school of opinion that silver powder is harmful to the human body, but another school of opinion thinks that the situation is not so serious, so they want to hear from me to make it clear.

Frankly speaking, if it is a patient who needs dental restorations now, I would suggest to rule out the option of silver powder as much as possible.As for whether to remove the silver powder that already exists in the oral cavity, it depends on the state of the silver powder. If the state of the silver powder remains shiny and the edges are tightly bonded, it can be re-evaluated; but if the state is not good, removing the silver powder is a move that must be seriously considered to eliminate evil. Because, as long as there is silver powder in poor condition in the mouth, it is very easy for the toxic metal “mercury” to sneak into the brain.

What is silver powder?

How silver dust in the mouth allows mercury to sneak into the brain Since it is called silver powder, isn’t it a kind of “powder” powder containing “silver” metal?
In fact, silver powder is an alloy of silver and mercury (also known as “amalgam”), which is composed of silver, copper, zinc, mercury and other metals, and the proportion of mercury is about half. For a long time, it has been used by many dentists as a filling material for tooth decay. When there is a small cavity in the tooth, but the overall structure is not damaged, the dentist will clean the cavity area first, and then fill in the filling material to fill the cavity to maintain the normal function of the tooth.

In the early days when dental material science was not so developed, silver powder was the most commonly used prosthetic substance by dentists. Many fifth and sixth graders, as well as older friends, have a little bit of silver dust in their mouths. In fact, not only in Taiwan, dentists all over the world used to use silver powder to fill their teeth.

In retrospect, you may not be sure what material the dentist used, but if you find that the restoration on the tooth has turned black, or has mottled cracks, it is recommended that you have it checked by the dentist to see if it is the tooth. Silver powder has qualitatively changed and dissociated.

The truth about silver dust

In the early days, it was believed that although silver powder contained about 50% mercury, the alloy filling formed by the standard filling method was stable, non-toxic, and would not affect the human body. However, with the advancement of medicine, we found that this cognition needs to be revised slightly.

There are too many clinical cases showing that silver powder prosthetics are not as strong as expected. Fracture, peeling, and secondary tooth decay under the silver powder are often seen.

The key to the problem is that it was originally a “powder”. The forming of general metal materials must go through high-temperature melting, then cooling and hardening and other casting processes. But the silver powder is just that the dentist fills the powdery metal after shaking and mixing into the cavity, and after squeezing, let them form the so-called “alloy state” by themselves. If the steps of silver powder filling are not correct, the silver powder with a bright appearance, under the microstructure, is at best like a beautiful castle piled up by sea sand. As long as it encounters friction or high temperature, mercury vapor will easily be generated, and then penetrate the oral mucosa. , Respiratory tract, absorbed by the body.

On this point, you can refer to an experiment done by American dentist Grant Layton. Layton used fluorescent lights and screens to observe gases that were invisible to the naked eye. In the experiment, he rubbed an eraser against a tooth with a silver restoration in front of a screen. Under the illumination of the special light, traces of smoke could be seen coming out of the teeth. In other words, without high temperature, just rubbing the silver powder with an eraser will generate smoke, and this smoke is mercury vapor.

If you think about it carefully, isn’t our daily diet like repeating this experiment over and over again?If the silver powder restoration is not in good condition, but our teeth are constantly grinding when we eat, and we also drink hot tea, hot coffee, hot soup, etc., it is like creating a perfect environment for releasing mercury vapor in the mouth from time to time. environment.

The paper “Silver powder and Alzheimer’s disease” (Mercury and Alzheimer’s disease) by J Mutter and others also mentioned that the volatilization of mercury vapor will make the body organs continuously exposed to mercury.

Mercury enters the brain so easily

After the mercury vapor produced by the silver powder is absorbed by the human body, it is not only extremely difficult to discharge, but may also be deposited in the brain.In fact, under normal circumstances, substances harmful to the human body are not so easy to enter the brain, because there is a barrier called “blood brain barrier” (BBB) ​​between the brain and blood vessels, we can also say that it is A moat to protect the brain.

However, once mercury metal enters the human body, it has a good chance of sneaking into the brain. Because mercury metal is a foreign body to the human body, it can cause chronic inflammation in the body. Once chronically inflamed, fat cells will increase, which in turn makes chronic inflammation worse, forming a vicious circle. The hormones contained in fat cells have the ability to destroy the blood-brain barrier, and as a result, mercury metal has an excellent opportunity to sneak into the brain.

Once mercury metal enters the brain, it will cause damage to nerve cells and affect the conduction between nerve cells. However, nerve cells are different from skin cells and blood cells. They are extremely fragile and difficult to repair and regenerate.It is also mentioned in the paper “Silver Powder and Alzheimer’s Disease” that according to research, a higher concentration of mercury can be detected in the brain and blood of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, and compared with no mercury in the mouth. For those with silver powder, the brains of those with silver powder can detect 2 to 10 times the amount of mercury. This number is really alarming, and it is difficult to ignore the link between silver powder and Alzheimer’s disease.

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  • Source: This article is excerpted from / The doctor insists on your health: The warm man dentist tells you the secret of remembering, sleeping well, and not looking old / World Life

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