10) ADA promotes violation of dental ethics

The ADA Principals of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct Sect E under Research and Development, "The dentist has the obligation to make known to all the results of his investigations if they have an effect on public health."

Scientific documentation has clearly proven chronic exposure, biological accumulation, and delayed adverse immune response to mercury from amalgam fillings. The ADA, by promoting the use of this document and pamphlet W186, is apparently suggesting that dentists deliberately violate their own code of ethics and withhold vital information from heir patients and the public. Such action cannot help but intentionally violate the patients right to full informed consent.

11) ADA violated patients' rights

The ADA and CDA Principals of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct was recently changed to say, "the removal of amalgam restorations from the non-allergic patient for the alleged purpose of removing toxic substances from the body, when such treatment is performed solely at the recommendation or suggestion of the dentist, is improper and unethical".

We conclude that the alteration of the ADA and CDA code of ethics to indict those dentists who recommend the removal of amalgam because of suspected toxicity violated the rights of the patient to informed consent and freedom of choice between the doctor and patient. Although the Associations state that, "dentists should choose the best possible restorative material for each patient on an individual basis." this is clearly not their intent. The changes to the Principals of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct restrict the dentists freedom of speech and deprive the patient of the legal right to informed consent and freedom of choice.

Conclusion

Given the inconsistencies between the scientific facts and this American Dental Association Special Report, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology has serious concerns regarding the ADA's lack of scientific rigor and the tendency to misinform the dental profession and, thereby, the public at large regarding the established scientific facts about amalgam safety. We hereby call to task the ADA for failure to adequately support their position on dental amalgam with hard scientific data. This failure has resulted in inadequate protection to the public and inadequately protects the membership of the ADA from personal harm due to amalgam usage.

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