Dental professionals across the UK, including the British Dental Association (BDA), are concerned about the European Parliament’s decision to ban dental amalgam starting January 1, 2025. THE BDA warns about the significant impact this will have on NHS dentistry, which has already been struggling. Northern Ireland, in particular, is known to have the highest rate … Read more
Slightly more than half of restored teeth in the U.S. contained amalgam as of 2015 and 2016, according to a study from the American Dental Association Science & Research Institute. Published online in May by the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, “Dental Amalgam Restorations in Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Population Aged ≥15 Years: NHANES 2011-2016” analyzed … Read more
A coalition of 50 environmental, public health, and children’s rights groups called for an end to the controversial filling material – dental amalgam – in American children, and for a two-year general phase-out in its use in the United States. Supporters include many major national nonprofit groups, including Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Health Care Without Harm, … Read more
From Mercola.com If this one doesn’t draw comments……………….
From Dental Bicuspid.com – Assistant editor Rob Goszkowski July 26,2011 — There’s a pervasive problem in restorative dentistry, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association (July 2011, Vol. 142:7, pp. 842-849): Too many dentists are replacing amalgam restorations when a repair will suffice, and practices have patients spending more money while limiting … Read more
Despite improvements in resin-based composite technology, US dentists are placing more amalgam restorations than composites, and amalgam is still emphasized by US dental schools, according to the results of 2 studies published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. Read article Related articles Mercury and Old Cavities (everydayhealth.com) Atlanta Dentist – … Read more
Not sure how to categorize this; let’s just call it your mourning smile…….ah amalgam we hardly knew yee………………..
Written by Jeffrey Wolf IRVING, Texas – The FDA is listening to people worried about toxic teeth. Dentists say some fillings could be harmful to your health and fillings are big business. Seventy eight percent of Americans have at least one cavity by the time they are 17. Most people like the newer, white composite … Read more
Open wide … but should we worry about what our fillings are made of? Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Should we be worried about our dental fillings? The material commonly used to fill holes in our teeth is half mercury, a toxic substance. Most people in France are living with mercury fillings, probably without … Read more
The accompanying links are an amalgam of commentary, prognostication and at the same time a reflection that so much of what we are fed is like watching a duck on a pond; what you see is calm, almost serene, a pastiche of dynamics and quiescence, except that if your perspective changed and you were able … Read more