You often hear dentists who use mercury amalgam insist that fillings made with the stuff last longer than fillings made with tooth-colored composite. Of course, if that were true, it would be all the more reason to avoid them! Think of all the extra years of inhaling the vapors constantly released from one of the […]
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Peroxide + Mercury Amalgam? Not a Great Mix (Guest Post)
Our thanks to the office of biological dentist Dr. Gary Verigin for letting us re-post this recent piece from their blog Know Thy Health: As long as we’re in this mode of updating past posts, we thought to take a look at the continuing research on how tooth bleaching may affect mercury amalgam fillings. For […]
Dentin Defense: How Your Teeth Keep Themselves Healthy & Whole
Believe it or don’t, but the idea that sugar causes cavities? Not exactly true. So why are dentists so down on the stuff? Because it’s the favorite food of the pathogenic microbes that cause tooth decay and gum disease, and as they say, what goes in must come out. In this case, what comes […]