Mercury is one of the components of dental amalgam. Amalgam, a mixture consisting primarily of silver, tin, and mercury, has been used as the main type of dental filling for more than 150 years worldwide. The dentistry world has been divided over the use of amalgam from its inception, but due to its cost, longevity and ease of use, it became the preferred filling for both dentists and patients.
In the early ‘90s, a TV program focused public attention on the fact that it was possible that unsafe quantities of mercury from the fillings were leaching into the bodies of people with amalgam fillings. Over the years that followed, this snowballed into a major controversy. There are obvious reasons to be alarmed. Mercury has been known to be highly toxic and has multiple adverse effects on almost all body organs.
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