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 | 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... 
by Pride Dental | Aug 21, 2014 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
A silver filling sounds a little like a piece of bling put in your mouth, right? But a more truthful name for it is “mercury filling.” The amalgam – a mixture of metals – such fillings are made of is actually about 50% mercury, a known neurotoxin. ... 
by Pride Dental | May 15, 2014 | Dentistry, Mercury / Heavy Metals
Mercury is the key ingredient in so-called “silver” amalgam fillings and a known neurotoxin. Despite that, about 75% of all new fillings are made of the stuff, as the ADA continues to insist that it’s perfectly safe. Evidence, however, shows that mercury from dental...