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Dental Amalgam contains 50% mercury and is primarily used for tooth cavity treatment about 150 years now. Amalgam was initially known as inert but researches show that the chewing pressure might have caused the release of mercury as gas that can penetrate the blodstream and can scatter around our body.

This release of mercury vapor generated a lot of concerts about its ill effects on health since this can affect the brain when a huge mount of mercury is taken in our body. This can also lead to behavior and psychological instability.

Though significant studies tell that adults are not vulnerable of neuropsychological illnesses due to this, choldren may be more affected to the plausible health risks of mercury vapor release through dental amalgam. This might be due to cummulative exposure to even small mercury amount.

Mercury poisoning may cause hair loss. Dental amalgam has been blamed for early hair loss in both men and women.

According to the article the mercury gets processed from solid to vapor over time. Once this is inhaled, a lot of health problems will occur: one of them is hair loss.

If you feel that the culprit is the dental amalgam, please have it checked by a dentist. Another way to check is to undergo a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis, wherein minerals in the hair is examined. Besides mercury poisoning, this test can also check for other signs of diseases.

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Mercury from excess dental amalgams are seeping into the water supply, destroying the environment. The EPA reports that amalgam fillings are responsible for a gigantic 7.4 tons of mercury releases into water supply. Unfortunately sewage plants are unable to filter out the toxin and it goes straight into a local body of water. 

The dental community can remove the mercury by using an amalgam separator. It’s proven that it removes 96 to 99 percent of excess mercury in an amalgam. Another thing the dentists can do is recycle the dental amalgam.

As a patient, you can request for non-mercury fillings from your dentist. It may not be as a great as the usual fillings, but at least you’ll be saving the environment.

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When dentists are questioned about amalgam restoration in recent survey, 66% told their patients that they have other cosmetic dentistry options. 22% on the other hand, tell their patients on safer and better options but many of them doesn’t use amalgams at all. In contrary though, dentists prefer filling in amalgams. As conducted in the survey, dentists also call amalgam restorations as silver fillings though there are many other terms that they can use for it.

This just proves that a number of dentists still think that mercury fillings are absolutely safe. One thing about amalgam that makes it pretty much anomalous is that it is seen as an old-fashioned material used in dental fillings.

The American Dental Association (ADA) urges its members to read and implement the new ADA Education Material. This brochure includes some points regarding dental amalgam. It says that, “the Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as the ADA, have found no scientific evidence that casts any doubt on the safety of dental amalgam.”

It also identifies the pros and cons of using dental amalgams. The pros being that it’s the most durable and strongest direct restoration today. The cons is that it usually darkens after a time thus not making it obvious someone had a dental amalgam.

To see the brochure please click here 

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As was mentioned in the last post, dental amalgam has its pros and cons. The cons is a controversial one at best.

Mercury is a toxic substance. A lot of people have been wondering why such a poisonous substance be placed inside one’s mouth. There have been a lot of critics against the usage of mercury because according to them it causes quire a lot of health problems like the ones listed below:

1. Hair loss
2. Gum disease
3. Migranes
4. Poor memory
5. Depression
6. Anxiety
7. Mental lethargy
8. Chronic fatigue
9. Eczema
10. Asthma
11. Arthritis
12. Backaches
13. Kidney Diseases
14. Etc.

It seems that it’s all traced to the mercury content. The American dental association thinks its safe still.Various states in the U.S. are already thinking about banning its use.

We’ll update you on news regarding this debate soon.

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Norway has issued its stand towards the dental amalgam controversy by deciding that Mercury should be kept away from one’s mouth and, therefore, banning dental amalgams all over the country. Norway has advised its dentists to find and use safer alternatives for dental reconstruction. The country has also banned all measuring equipment which utilizes mercury.

Little do many know that the silver fillings they have in their teeth may contain significant amounts of mercury which has been proven to result in health risks. That is why the EPA has released information on how dentists should store and dispose of removed fillings as much of them, though put in a long time ago still have active mercury within them making them unsafe for dumping into the waste disposal system.
Considered to be toxic, it has been identified as a source of mercury in the body after some fillings break leading to ingestion. Most dentists today prefer to remove the mercury filled fillings replacing them with composite materials that are inert and safer for the human body without the risk of leeching into the bloodstream.

Amalgam has been used for a long time and used to be favored by dentists the world over. Today however, they are subject to extensive research that has arisen due to a very toxic component, mercury. The only known liquid metal on earth, mercury is highly toxic and has been associated with Alzheimer’s disease and many other psychological disorders. Though called “silver fillings”, it is mostly mercury which has been associated with many diseases. This being the case, many dentists now prefer composite ceramics and plastics in its place and recommend older fillings to be removed and replaced by them.
There is also danger when they are removed for mercury releases vapors and dust as it is ground away from the tooth it used to grace. There are specialist dentists who have extensive experience with their removal and disposal for as said mercury is highly toxic.

Norway has decided that Mercury should not be placed in your mouth. They have totally banned dental amalgams across the country. Initially they banned using the dental amalgam in children and pregnant women. Dentists were advised to begin using safer alternatives. Besides dental amalgams, the said country has also banned all measuring equipment with mercury in them. 

The country is concerned regarding the possible effects of mercury in the human body. According to the Minister of Environment and Development Erik Solheim, “Mercury is among the most dangerous environmental toxins.  Satisfactory alternatives to mercury in products are available, and it is therefore fitting to introduce a ban.” 

Will the U.K., and U.S. follow suit?

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