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 | 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... 
by Pride Dental | Jul 11, 2019 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
As more people become informed about the risks of mercury amalgam “silver” fillings, some progress has been made on the road to mercury-free, mercury-safe dentistry for all. There are a couple recent developments that we wanted to be sure to tell you about. The... 
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...