Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dyson also offers a defense of singer Mariah Carey against critics who say her music is not "authentically" black. He writes: "What Carey's career may teach us is that paranoia about purity is the real enemy of black cultural expression, which at its best is characterized by the amalgamation of radically different elements." Dyson's worthy amalgam of essays proves that correct...
...become popular among some followers of alternative medicine to have the old fillings removed--a process that is not only expensive but also often painful. The theory is that the fillings slowly poison the body by leaching out mercury that was mixed with silver to make the amalgam. Hundreds of dentists in the U.S. offer amalgam extractions as a profitable adjunct to their regular practice. In their view, the old fillings, which can be up to 50% mercury, are responsible for a host of modern ills including Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue and multiple sclerosis...
...preached against the evils of silver amalgam more successfully than a Colorado Springs dentist named Hal Huggins. A prolific writer of antiamalgam articles, pamphlets and books, Huggins, 58, is the maestro of mercury removal. About 2,000 Americans, many desperately ill, have visited the Huggins Diagnostic Center, where a team of five dentists pulled out fillings in two custom-made "bubble operatories" designed to minimize exposure to toxins. At its peak, in the early 1990s, the center treated 32 patients a month, subjecting them to intensive two-week therapies and charging as much as $8,500 a mouth...
Huggins got into trouble, according to state dental examiners, when, in pursuit of mercury, he went beyond the bounds of dentistry. In some cases he prescribed lithium tablets and ordered potentially dangerous injections of insulin "without clinical justification." One man, who had no amalgam fillings, was allegedly told that his lab reports showed he had "retention toxicity." Huggins denies any wrongdoing and claims that "dentistry is trying to embarrass me for getting this message...
Many of Huggins' patients continue to swear by his treatments. Kenneth Lay, chairman of Enron Corp. in Houston, and his wife Linda had their amalgam fillings removed at the Huggins Center in 1991. Her chronic fatigue disappeared, as did an unexplained numbness he was experiencing. "I know what his critics say," comments Lay, "but I'm convinced that he does a lot of good for a lot of people...