There was an interesting – and troubling – study some years ago which found that after 20 years, your average mercury amalgam “silver” filling can lose up to 95% of its mercury content. While the lead author assured that “what’s left is in a form unlikely to be toxic in the body,” he and his […]
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Modern Mercury Fillings Release Even More Mercury Than the Old Kind
Although about half of all American dentists no longer place mercury amalgam “silver” fillings, that still leaves about 100,000 who do – most of whom are using high copper amalgam. Why high copper? “Experts” will tell you that fillings made with the material are stronger, look brighter, resist corrosion better, creep (slowly change shape) less, […]
Mercury-Free Is Winning
As we noted last time, although dental amalgam is addressed in UNEP’s global mercury treaty, an enormous amount of work remains to be done. More consumers must be informed that those “silver” fillings are nothing of the sort – and why it matters to their health and the health of our planet. Policymakers must […]
Getting the Mercury Out of Dentistry: “Recommended…Possible and Advisable”
In these days of ever-shorter attention spans, you can tell you’ve made a real impact when people are still reacting to what you’ve done even months after the fact and without the help of continuous media coverage. Case in point: Dr. Oz’s talking about the health risks of mercury amalgam fillings on his TV […]
Towards a Mercury-Free Future
“Do you know who is behind dental amalgam – the 50% mercury product that is leaching a neurotoxin and polluting our planet?” wrote Charlie Brown of Consumers for Dental Choice in a recent email. One of the chief mercury polluters is Dentsply, a major amalgam manufacturer based in picturesque York, Pennsylvania. So you never […]
Reactions to the Dr. Oz Mercury Amalgam Show
There’s been a lot of great commentary on the mercury amalgam episode Dr. Oz aired a few weeks ago, including these reflections from Dr. Mercola, published just this week. We think one of the most compelling is the article below by Dr. Mark Breiner, a biological dentist and author of the excellent guide Whole-Body […]
Advances in Mercury Testing & Detox
If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you may have seen the new IAOMT video we posted last week – a powerful animation showing all the routes mercury can take from a dental office into the environment. Truly, even if you don’t have a single “silver” amalgam filling in your mouth, you’re still affected […]
How Do You Know If You Are Mercury Toxic?
Loosely adapted from the book “Let the Tooth Be Known” by Dawn Ewing, R.D.H., Ph. D., N. D. The “amalgam” fillings most people have in their teeth are a mixture of silver, copper, tin and zinc with an equal amount of mercury (up to 50 percent mercury). Fillings deteriorate over time, leaching the various metal […]