Children sit in a dental chair with little say over the material placed in their mouth. The choice may depend on the dentist they see, what their insurance covers, or which government program pays for the procedure. Parents may simply hear “dental filling” and consent without being told that dental amalgam is made with approximately…
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…
When your dentist says “silver filling,” picture this instead: a paste that’s half mercury by weight — the same neurotoxin that closed down hat factories in the 1800s and triggered international treaties in the 2010s. Yet it’s still being drilled into American teeth, including children’s, every single day. That detail rarely comes up at the…
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…
