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TIFF CHRIS THANK YOU. WELL, THE SAFETY OF SILVER FILLINGS IS MAKING HEADLINES AGAIN AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU SHOULD HAVE THEM REMOVED. THIS COMES AFTER THE FLORIDA SURGEON GENERAL RECOMMENDED AGAINST ...

Dental amalgam is a safe, affordable and durable material that has been used to restore cavities in teeth for more than 100 years. The World Dental Federation and the World Health Organisation ...

Dr. Griffin Cole of the IAOMT discussing the study findings of elevated levels of mercury from amalgam dental fillings in the blood of 16 million Americans. CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla., Nov. 04, 2025 (GLOBE ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a final regulation classifying dental amalgam and its component parts -- elemental mercury and a powder alloy -- used in dental fillings. While ...

Mercury-containing dental amalgam fillings had no adverse health effects in children after five and seven years, according to the first randomized safety trials on the subject. Scientists supported by ...

We’ve all heard that mercury is poisonous — causes neurological damages, developmental defects, etc. Mercury thermometers have been phased out and replaced with non-mercury ones. But not so with ...

Between 2017 and 2023, dental amalgam restoration placements in U.S. patients U.S. plummeted by about 80%, according to a study published on September 6 in the Journal of the American Dental ...

Silver tooth fillings have been placed in the mouths of Americans since before the Civil War, an inexpensive, durable and reliable material that helped form the foundation of modern dentistry. For ...

The group Ban Toxics calls on government to change the dental curriculum in schools to exclude the required use of the cancerous alloy MANILA, Philippines – Environmental activist groups are pressing ...