by Pride Dental | Aug 25, 2016 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
This week is Mercury Awareness Week, a joint campaign by Dr. Mercola and Consumers for Dental Choice to educate people on the problem of dental mercury and the promise of a mercury-free future. Until August 28, 2016, any donation you make to Consumers’ will be matched... 
by Pride Dental | May 5, 2016 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
In 1990, Morley Safer framed a 60 Minutes episode around one simple question: “Is There a Poison in Your Mouth?” He was referring, of course, to those little “silver” fillings that many people, especially in 1990, didn’t know contain at least 50% mercury. This classic... 
by Pride Dental | Aug 20, 2015 | Biological Dentistry, Mercury / Heavy Metals
Filling cavities may seem like a really modern thing, but archaeologists have shown that the practice goes way, way back. The earliest known filling is about 6500 years old and made of beeswax. More recently, an even older tooth was found to have once been “drilled”... 
by Pride Dental | Apr 30, 2015 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
One argument you hear some dentists make in defense of amalgam is that it’s a sturdier, stronger and more forgiving material to work with. They may point to studies such as the one recently published in the European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, which found that... 
by Pride Dental | Mar 12, 2015 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
In Woodstock, Georgia, a whole neighborhood was put on alert recently, after as much as a pint of mercury was discovered in the basement of a home there. A pint of mercury?! “They couldn’t tell me where it came from. They said they’ve had it for a long... by Pride Dental | Oct 2, 2014 | Dentistry, Mercury / Heavy Metals
Ready for some good news? At long last, the EPA has proposed its rule to limit mercury discharges from dental offices. The agency estimates that it will prevent 8.8 tons of metal – half of which is mercury – from from polluting our water supply. This is a very big...