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An affordable material that is used to restore teeth is dental amalgam. It is a silver filling that is safe and durable. It is made up of metal mixtures like tin, silver, copper, mercury and other chemical compound. It has fairly consistent safety record cases except for rare ones where patients are sensitive to mercury. This single element is poisonous metal but not in dental amalgam. It’s very little mercury vapour is made in an alloy composed copper, tin and silver.
Public Health Service says that there are no health reasons not to use dental amalgam. They say that amalgam fillings are safe and effective. Besides this, people are more exposed to mercury from water, air and food than the mercury vapor in amalgam fillings. Dental amalgam is still the most affordable and most durable of all dental fillings and further research is still being done to arrive at definite scientific answers of the possible effects of it.
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