by Pride Dental | Oct 1, 2020 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
The US took an important step forward this past week when the FDA issued new guidance on mercury amalgam, recommending that it not be used in a number of high-risk populations: Pregnant and nursing women. Women who are planning on pregnancy. Children, especially those...
by Pride Dental | Aug 27, 2020 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
This week marks the 10th annual Mercury-Free Dentistry Week, a joint campaign by Dr. Mercola and Consumers for Dental Choice to raise awareness about the need to completely phase out dental amalgam around the world and the promise of a mercury-free future. And indeed,...
by Pride Dental | Dec 5, 2019 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
This past summer, the FDA put out a call for consumer input on medical devices, including dental amalgam. Hundreds of comments poured in, and 94% percent of them had to do with the adverse health effects of “silver” mercury amalgam fillings. Some stories came from...
by Pride Dental | Aug 29, 2019 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
Every week is mercury-free (and mercury-safe) week here at Pride Dental, but you know as well as we do that there are plenty of folks out there who still have no idea how truly risky mercury amalgam fillings can be. According to one Zogby survey, 57% of Americans...
by Pride Dental | Jul 18, 2019 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
By Charles G. Brown, Executive Director of Consumers for Dental Choice and president of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry The continued use of dental amalgam, a primitive pre-Civil War device that is 50% neurotoxic mercury, is in increasing disrepute, as...