Please take a moment to write Gov. Schwarzenegger:

Please do NOT re-appoint Ariane Terlet to Dental Board

The Dental Board has voted to approve -- but refuses to distribute -- the compromise Fact Sheet that gives parents, pregnant women, and young women notice that mercury fillings may damage the developing brain of a child or fetus and may cause birth defects.

Dental Board member Ariane Terlet is blocking the honest fact sheet from being distributed. Working hand-in-glove with the Calif. Dental Assoc., she proposes a substitute Fact Sheet with NO disclosures of risks of mercury fillings.

The cover-up enters its twelfth year. The Watson Law of 1992 goes unmet. Most of us would go to jail if we violated the law for 12 years. But Dr. Terlet wants the Board to keep right on violating the law, and covering up the risks of mercury fillings.

Dr. Terlet's term expires January 4, 2004. Her loyalty is to the ADA and CDA -- not to the citizens of California. Governor Schwarzenegger should not reappoint her.

Please write - and phone -- the Governor's Deputy Appointments Secretary, Ashley Gunn, and ask that the new Governor appoint someone who will not cover up the risks of mercury fillings, someone who is not in the hip pocket of the special interests.

Ashley Gunn, Deputy Appointments Secretary to Gov. Schwarzenegger
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone 916.445-4541
Fax 916.323-8714
E: Shannon.George@gov.ca.gov

LABEL YOUR LETTER AT THE TOP: "IMPORTANT"

Charles G. Brown, National Counsel
Consumers for Dental Choice