In an audacious move of brazen deception, the American Dental Association (ADA), an amalgam patentholder, promoted dental amalgam as “silver fillings” — and doubled down on the cover-up by adopting a rule of conduct that barred dentists from discussing the (obvious) toxicity of mercury. Well, I’m here to tell you that the “silver” filling…
Consumers for Dental Choice has engineered a tectonic shift in dentistry — modern dentists no longer place mercury-based fillings (dental amalgam) — and aware consumers shun them. Unlike a decade ago, neither the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nor the World Health Organization (WHO) defends amalgam — and the major dental products companies stopped…
In celebration of our 2024 Mercury Awareness Week, I invited Charlie Brown, founder and president of Consumers for Dental Choice, to share with us some of the recent developments in the fight for mercury-free dentistry. Charlie and his team have made monumental leaps in their advocacy, not just in the U.S., but worldwide as well….
Our annual Dental Mercury Awareness Week is coming up in a few days, and I believe this is the perfect opportunity to have a chat with Dr. Carlo Litano. Litano has been practicing dentistry for nearly 20 years — his journey into this particular area of medicine began with a desire to help his mother,…
