Author: Argou-Cardozo I, Cano Martín JA, Zeidán-Chuliá F.
Source: European Journal of Dentistry.
Year: 2017
Comment:
Abstract / Excerpt:
Common technological devices (e.g., mobile phones, mobile base stations, and magnetic resonance imaging machines and other wireless devices) produce electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Neurobehavioral and neurodevelopmental symptoms such as retarded memory, learning, cognition, and attention have been attributed to EMF exposure.[4] Of note, these symptoms are also attributed to ASD and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders. A recent in vivo study observed autism-relevant social abnormalities in mice exposed to extremely low-frequency EMFs during perinatal development.[5] This may indicate a potential direct link between EMFs and the prevalence of autism in specific window/s of vulnerability that would deserve further investigation. An indirect link might be also plausible since high-field magnetic resonance and microwave radiation emitted by common mobile phones have been reported to increase the release of mercury from dental amalgam fillings.[6,7] These recent evidence (2014), far from being conflictive, is consistent with our previous cumulative Hg exposure-based hypothesis of ASD (2011) and could be included as the fifth (v) additional environmental factor, synergistically contributing to the release of Hg in mothers with dental amalgam fillings, and increasing the probability of developing and/or aggravating autism among children. Nevertheless, this updated version of our hypothesis would require more extensive clinical confirmation and supporting evidence.
Citation: Argou-Cardozo I, Cano Martín JA, Zeidán-Chuliá F. Dental amalgam fillings and the use of technological devices as an environmental factor: Updating the cumulative mercury exposure-based hypothesis of autism. European Journal of Dentistry. 2017; 11(4):569-70.