The Food and Drug Administration has issued a final regulation classifying dental amalgam and its component parts--elemental mercury and a powder alloy--used in dental fillings. While elemental ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a final regulation classifying dental amalgam and its component parts--elemental mercury and a powder alloy--used in dental fillings. While elemental ...

An international treaty drafted earlier this month calls for phasing out dental amalgam to reduce mercury pollution. The Minamata Convention, negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations ...

Mercury-containing dental amalgam fillings had no adverse health effects in children after five and seven years, according to the first randomized safety trials on the subject. Scientists supported by ...

October 24, 2011 — A World Health Organization (WHO) committee this month called for a worldwide reduction in the use of dental amalgam to cut the flow of mercury into the natural environment. "In an ...

Occupational exposure to dental amalgam poses a potential risk of increasing systemic mercury levels, according to a new study in Photomedicine and Laser Surgery (October 7, 2010). Researchers from ...

Getting a filling is a common dental procedure that is used to treat cavities and protect teeth damaged by tooth decay. There are several types of filling material currently available to repair ...

We’ve all heard that mercury is poisonous — causes neurological damages, developmental defects, etc. Mercury thermometers have been phased out and replaced with non-mercury ones. But not so with ...

A small cluster of protesters, carrying tooth-shaped signs with slogans such as "Ban Mercury," heralded the opening of a two-day meeting today in Washington, DC, called by the U.S. Food and Drug ...