After taking a little summer break from the blog, it feels especially good to be back with some very welcome news — and just in time for Mercury-Free Dentistry Week, too. Last month, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the Centers...
When someone is diagnosed with a chronic illness like multiple sclerosis (MS), one of the most common questions they ask is “why?” The answer is seldom simple or straightforward. Patients seeking information run into many possibilities, from genetics and infections...
Some topics come up repeatedly in biological dentistry – biocompatibility, for instance. And fluoride. And root canals. And “cavitations.” Then, of course, there’s amalgam. You know the stuff: the material used for what are often still called “silver”...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog post to share some breaking news that’s -honestly? – pretty remarkable. The Indian Health Service has announced that it will end its use of mercury amalgam fillings by 2027. [Cue applause.] The decision comes from the...
For several years now, the FDA guidance on dental amalgam – the stuff used to make “silver” fillings – has said that it should be avoided for some patients. The mercury content makes amalgam fillings too risky for children, pregnant and nursing mothers,...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog post to share some really exciting news that hit our inbox this morning from Charlie at Consumers for Dental Choice: Dear Friends, Consumers for Dental Choice has achieved the goal that seemed unfathomable when you and I...
We’ve known for years that mercury from “silver” amalgam fillings shows up in urine. We also know there’s a correlation between the number of fillings a person has and urinary mercury levels. Earlier analyses found that about 10% of American adults get a daily dose...
As we noted last week, the IAOMT and DAMS recently teamed up to petition the FDA. Their main ask is simple and straightforward: formally ban mercury fillings completely. This would align the US with more than 40 other countries – including all those in the...
While the EPA continues to fight a federal court ruling that recognized the neurotoxic risk of fluoridated drinking water, the movement for a healthier kind of dentistry has taken a significant step forward. On August 6, the International Academy of Oral Medicine...
Some scientific studies that make the news seem so plainly obvious, you wonder why anyone thought they even needed to be done. You know the kind – the kind that tells us that people who eat more vegetables are healthier or that those who get enough sleep feel...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has done a lot already to help move us closer to a fluoride-free future. But there’s another dental toxin that many would also like to see him go after: the mercury used to make so-called “silver’ fillings. “As a presidential candidate,”...
As of January 1, it was official: Now, the mercury amalgam used to make “silver” fillings is forbidden in the European Union. It cannot be exported, imported, or used, save in some extremely limited circumstances. Even better is that the ban took effect five years...
Although the use of mercury amalgam to fill teeth has declined dramatically in recent years and even more countries are banning the material outright, amalgam still has its defenders. What benefits could it have that outweigh the risk of having a neurotoxic metal...
If you’re on the mailing list for Consumers for Dental Choice – a leader in the fight for mercury-free dentistry – then you may have already received the wonderful news that yet another manufacturer is getting out of the amalgam biz. According to...
We’ve said it before, but we believe it’s worth saying again: One of the most fulfilling aspects of practicing biological dentistry is witnessing the life-changing impact it has on our patients’ overall health and well-being. One of the most common types of...
Now that dental amalgam has been banned in Europe, Consumers for Dental Choice reports that they will now “shift gears to the one holdout in Europe: the United Kingdom, which ‘Brexited’ the European Union a few years ago.” Taking a divide-and-conquer approach, we...
Even though more dentists have moved away from filling teeth with mercury amalgam, the dental industry still uses up to 322 metric tons of dental mercury every year. And every year, as much as 35 tons of it gets released into the environment, much of it in dental...
Anyone who might be wondering why it’s such a big deal when nations decide to ban “silver” mercury amalgam fillings – as just happened in the European Union – might want to check out the findings of a study just published in Human & Experimental...
This past summer, the European Commission proposed a total ban on mercury amalgam – a ban that would include not only the placement of amalgam fillings but the manufacture and export of amalgam, too. Now, the European Parliament has voted on that proposal,...
Member Login Username: Password: While many of our readers already subscribe to news alerts from Consumers for Dental Choice, we want to be sure that as many people as possible get the news following the latest meeting of the Minamata Convention on Mercury –...