Environmental Health Articles
29 articles by Dr. O
These articles look at how the environment affects health and how a dental office can reduce its own impact. Topics include dental mercury and heavy metals, EMFs and cell phones, GMO labeling, and green dentistry.
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November 13, 2010
Recycling Dental Scrap Metals
At the California Dental Association convention that met in San Diego this weekend, we encountered Teena Marie of Precious Metals, Ltd. Teena does a s...
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October 27, 2010
Costa Mesa CA Bans Dental Mercury
As a San Diego Holistic Dentist, I am pleased to report that Californians for Green Dentistry launched an initiative to ban dental mercury on July 29,...
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October 26, 2010
EMF’s and Cell Phones On Larry King Part 2
Here is the next part of the EMF series looking into cell phone use and environmental health. Cell phones were characterized on the show by Dr. Sanjay...
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October 24, 2010
EMF’s and Cell Phones on Larry King Part One
According to Dr. Masur, who lectured yesterday at the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, there were 4.6 billion cell phone users worldwide as...
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October 24, 2010
EMF’s, Heavy Metals and Oxidative Stress
Earlier today Dr. Charles Masur MD spoke at the annual conference of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine in La Jolla on the synergistic eff...
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September 26, 2010
EMF’s and Environmental Health- Part 2
A 2006 interview with Dr. George Carlo discusses the damaging effects of EMF’s on environmental health, specifically cell phone use. According to Dr. ...
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September 21, 2010
EMF’s and Environmental Health
A public meeting regarding a new cell phone tower in Olivenhain prompted us to investigate the local impact of EMF’s. In the entire U.S. the impact of...
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August 3, 2010
CBS Eye Witness News Broadcast on Mercury in Fish- Part 3
As a San Diego Holistic Dentist I am concerned about the part that dentistry plays in adding mercury to our oceans. Here we feature the 3rd part of a ...
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August 2, 2010
CBS Eye Witness News Broadcast on Mercury in Fish- Part2
San Diego Holistic Dentist features 2nd part of 2008 TV show about safe levels of mercury in fish:...
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July 28, 2010
CBS Eye Witness News Broadcast on Mercury in Fish- Part1
More on the environmental impact of mercury in our water. This episode from KPIX on December 4, 2008 introduces a method of testing safe mercury level...
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July 27, 2010
Environmental Trends in Heavy Metal Exposure
An environmental project on toxic methyl-mercury ingestion released in February 2010 quantified the actual cost of toxic mercury emissions. Issued joi...
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July 20, 2010
San Diego Holistic Dentist Goes Green for Cleaner Water
‘Going Green’ is about a paradigm shift involving habitual behaviors and small, day to day choices. As Mother Theresa said, “One cannot do great thing...
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