Brazil: A recent case-control study published in the Journal of Applied Oral Science has found no significant association ...

Another chance for another Kennedy to make major change with a stroke of the pen, this time focusing on mercury in dental fillings. As a presidential candidate, John F. Kennedy promised to stop ...

Amalgam has been used to fill teeth since 1826 and almost 90 per cent of adults in the UK have at least one such filling. But the EU says they should no longer be used as ‘exposure to high ...

Today, several dental filling materials are available. Teeth can be filled with gold; porcelain; silver amalgam (which consists of mercury mixed with silver, tin, zinc, and copper); or tooth ...

Between 2017 and 2023, dental amalgam restoration placements in U.S. patients U.S. plummeted by about 80%, according to a study published on September 6 in the Journal of the American Dental ...

Should you worry about protecting your health, too? By Justin R. Silverman When the European Union adopted a ban on dental amalgam fillings earlier this year, its aim was to eliminate one of the ...

Current rules already ban the use of dental amalgam for treating teeth in children under 15 years old, and pregnant or breastfeeding women. The new rules will extend the prohibition to include ...

The ban would prohibit the use of silver fillings or dental amalgam, with a move to mercury-free fillings. It could be introduced next, external year after the EU said mercury posed a "global and ...

However, the practice of filling teeth with metal amalgam (albeit upgraded versions of the Crawcours compound) has stuck due to it being easy to use, strong, and cheap. The European Union has ...

An amalgam tattoo isn’t like a rose drawn on your arm. This type of tattoo is actually a side effect of common dental fillings. Amalgam tattoos often mimic the symptoms of certain dental or skin ...

The lesion was located above a porcelain tooth fused to a metal bridge, which had been inserted about 40 years previously. Since the patient was asymptomatic, the timing of the lesion onset was ...