Comments on: Dental Amalgam: The Language of Controversy http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/267/silver-mercury-dental-amalgam-fillings/ Jim Du Molin offers dental marketing news and dental practice management advice for dentists. Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:20:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Douglas Decker, DDS http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/267/silver-mercury-dental-amalgam-fillings/#comment-411 Douglas Decker, DDS Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:37:59 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=267#comment-411 I have a bunch of silver-mercury fillings in my mouth. I would not put them in my wife's mouth our my children's mouths. An MD friend of mine asked, "How come the only safe place for mercury is in your mouth?" We worry about Hg in fish, in the water, from burning coal, and yet we plug big wads of it into people's teeth. I have a bunch of silver-mercury fillings in my mouth. I would not put them in my wife’s mouth our my children’s mouths. An MD friend of mine asked, “How come the only safe place for mercury is in your mouth?”

We worry about Hg in fish, in the water, from burning coal, and yet we plug big wads of it into people’s teeth.

]]> By: Lisa Fixmer/Practice Manager http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/267/silver-mercury-dental-amalgam-fillings/#comment-407 Lisa Fixmer/Practice Manager Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:03:49 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=267#comment-407 As an office manager and treatment coordinator for 23+ years, I have found in conversation with the patients that they believe the term silver filling refers to the color of the filling and not the chemical makeup. Patients refer to fillings as silver or white not mercury or composite. Only by educating each of our patients on the option of chemical content, benefit and risk, can they make informed consent. As an office manager and treatment coordinator for 23+ years, I have found in conversation with the patients that they believe the term silver filling refers to the color of the filling and not the chemical makeup. Patients refer to fillings as silver or white not mercury or composite. Only by educating each of our patients on the option of chemical content, benefit and risk, can they make informed consent.

]]> By: Steve http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/267/silver-mercury-dental-amalgam-fillings/#comment-406 Steve Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:54:20 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=267#comment-406 Is it not evident to everybody else that "silver fillings" crack teeth and lead to root canals and crowns. In today's world why are we still using something developed 200 years ago? Would you place it in your kids' teeth? There are too many other environmental factors to say that the mercury in these fillings is responsible for a particular disease. I doubt that will ever be proven. And yet we wonder how to cure cancer and other diseases. Stop putting crap into your body. That goes for hormone-laden beef, silver fillings, etc... Is it not evident to everybody else that “silver fillings” crack teeth and lead to root canals and crowns. In today’s world why are we still using something developed 200 years ago? Would you place it in your kids’ teeth? There are too many other environmental factors to say that the mercury in these fillings is responsible for a particular disease. I doubt that will ever be proven. And yet we wonder how to cure cancer and other diseases. Stop putting crap into your body. That goes for hormone-laden beef, silver fillings, etc…

]]> By: Steve Negelow,DDS http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/267/silver-mercury-dental-amalgam-fillings/#comment-404 Steve Negelow,DDS Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:44:46 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=267#comment-404 The FDA requires any product that goes into or on the label on products sold in the US to have the ingredients listed in order of greatest percent of the product first. “Mercury” fillings is an appropriate label. Calling them “silver” fillings is misleading and in any other circumstance would be a violation of federal law. If mercury toxicity is such a scam why does the EPA, the ADD, and CDC (as well as local and state regulations) insist on such an elaborated collection process? After all we are not separating the metals in to their component parts, we are just making the particles smaller when we cut them out. The sooner we stop being old farts and get with it, the sooner we can get this crap off the market. The FDA requires any product that goes into or on the label on products sold in the US to have the ingredients listed in order of greatest percent of the product first. “Mercury” fillings is an appropriate label. Calling them “silver” fillings is misleading and in any other circumstance would be a violation of federal law.
If mercury toxicity is such a scam why does the EPA, the ADD, and CDC (as well as local and state regulations) insist on such an elaborated collection process? After all we are not separating the metals in to their component parts, we are just making the particles smaller when we cut them out. The sooner we stop being old farts and get with it, the sooner we can get this crap off the market.

]]> By: Todd Shainholtz http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/267/silver-mercury-dental-amalgam-fillings/#comment-403 Todd Shainholtz Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:05:22 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=267#comment-403 The most clinically significant factor of the amalgam controversy has been omitted from your discussion, and it cannot be disputed: the setting expansion. All amalgams expand and therefore crack the teeth they are meant to restore. If you practice with loupes, you see it every day. A small amalgam starts a downward spiral of bigger fillings, crowns, root canals, and tooth loss. The most clinically significant factor of the amalgam controversy has been omitted from your discussion, and it cannot be disputed: the setting expansion. All amalgams expand and therefore crack the teeth they are meant to restore. If you practice with loupes, you see it every day. A small amalgam starts a downward spiral of bigger fillings, crowns, root canals, and tooth loss.

]]> By: kenneth ramsey http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/267/silver-mercury-dental-amalgam-fillings/#comment-401 kenneth ramsey Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:47:15 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=267#comment-401 For many years I have used the term "silver/mercury metal alloy filling". Many of my younger patients (up to the age of 30) have only experienced composite fillings and have no idea what an "amalgam" is. For many years I have used the term “silver/mercury metal alloy filling”. Many of my younger patients (up to the age of 30) have only experienced composite fillings and have no idea what an “amalgam” is.

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