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 | 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 | Jun 27, 2019 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
Sometimes, you just can’t help but take the click-bait: But while old school procedures such as trepanation, lobotomies, and fecal transplants continue today in updated, more specific forms – and occasionally rebranded to move away from the stigma...
