Author: Siblerud RL, Motl J, Kienholz E.
Source: Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine
Year: 1998
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Abstract / Excerpt:
Before and after treatment scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory – II (MMPI-II) were compared for 11 manic depression subjects with amalgams removed and for 9 subjects with amalgams who were told they were being given a placebo or sealant. Of the 87 scales, the amalgam removal group improved significantly more in 47 of them. Depression and hypomania scores improved significantly, as did anxiety, anger, schizophrenia, paranoia, and many others. Scores on the Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory II found the scores in the amalgam removal group improved significantly more in the scales of avoidant, dependent, anitsocial and borderline, compared to the sealant / placebo group. The scores in the categories of Clinical Personality pattern category and severe Personality Pathology category also improved significantly more in the amalgam removal group. All scores of the nine dimensions tested in the Symptom Check List 90 improved significantly more in the group with amalgam removal. They included somatization, obsessive complusive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoia, and psychotism. The amalgam removal group reported a 42% decrease in the number of somatic symptoms in the placebo / sealant group when comparing a before and after health questionnaire.
Citation: Siblerud RL, Motl J, Kienholz E. Psychometric evidence that dental amalgam mercury may be an etiological factor in manic depression. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. 1998;13(1):31-9.