http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/268/mercury-dental-amalgam-dentists/ Jim Du Molin offers dental marketing news and dental practice management advice for dentists. Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/268/mercury-dental-amalgam-dentists/#comment-415 Arnie Weiss, DDS Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:15:13 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=268#comment-415 What do you do about "LEAT"? Least Expensive Alternate Treatment. When an insurance company will pay a composite as an amalgan and the patient's co-pay is double. I feel they should be informed and given the option. No one spends my money without my consent. Why should they? What do you do about “LEAT”? Least Expensive Alternate Treatment. When an insurance company will pay a composite as an amalgan and the patient’s co-pay is double. I feel they should be informed and given the option. No one spends my money without my consent. Why should they?

]]> http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/268/mercury-dental-amalgam-dentists/#comment-408 Steve Negelow,DDS Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:18:24 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=268#comment-408 If we judged amalgam as harshly as we judge composite. No one would have an amalgam filling over 2 years old. No, they do not crack teeth, directly. Cracking is caused by hyperfuncion, in conjuction with the weakening of caries and over restoring (which one has to do with amalgam). Has any one ever heard of a preventive amalgam. Why not get the desease before it needs a restoration that must as a rule have extention for prevention!! Why then does amalgam get so little (relative) secondary decay?? Silver oxide is the salt of a heavy metal, deadly to bacteria in the interface of tooth and amalgam. This new generation of composite will last a long time. When there is a bond failure you can see it and interceed. If your patients do not come in for recall, nothing you do will prevent their perio, fractured teeth, and failed amalgams. There is an old saying,"every good amalgam grows up to be a crown." If you protect your patients from hyperfunction they will not fracture teeth, if get to their decay before you would in good concious maserate their teeth with a too-large restoration (amalgam). If you promise yourself you'll never again say, "well, we'll just watch it for now." you will see the best restorative material is what we call composite based. (I suppose at this point say I'm not so thrilled about porcelain for anything but maxillary veneers either. We'll see in the next few years how many opposing teeth Cerac and the like have distroyed.) Simply stated mercury and silver oxide have no place in the biologic system. If we judged amalgam as harshly as we judge composite. No one would have an amalgam filling over 2 years old. No, they do not crack teeth, directly. Cracking is caused by hyperfuncion, in conjuction with the weakening of caries and over restoring (which one has to do with amalgam). Has any one ever heard of a preventive amalgam. Why not get the desease before it needs a restoration that must as a rule have extention for prevention!! Why then does amalgam get so little (relative) secondary decay?? Silver oxide is the salt of a heavy metal, deadly to bacteria in the interface of tooth and amalgam. This new generation of composite will last a long time. When there is a bond failure you can see it and interceed. If your patients do not come in for recall, nothing you do will prevent their perio, fractured teeth, and failed amalgams. There is an old saying,”every good amalgam grows up to be a crown.” If you protect your patients from hyperfunction they will not fracture teeth, if get to their decay before you would in good concious maserate their teeth with a too-large restoration (amalgam). If you promise yourself you’ll never again say, “well, we’ll just watch it for now.” you will see the best restorative material is what we call composite based. (I suppose at this point say I’m not so thrilled about porcelain for anything but maxillary veneers either. We’ll see in the next few years how many opposing teeth Cerac and the like have distroyed.)
Simply stated mercury and silver oxide have no place in the biologic system.

]]> http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/268/mercury-dental-amalgam-dentists/#comment-402 richard hughes, d.d.s. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:04:02 +0000 http://www.thewealthydentist.com/blog/?p=268#comment-402 This is really a tempest in a tea pot, caused by alot of pseudo scientific thought. Even the dentist are making wild assumptions about the toxicity. We need a cradel to grave study, with a large sample and then compare. This should put this topic to rest. This is really a tempest in a tea pot, caused by alot of pseudo scientific thought. Even the dentist are making wild assumptions about the toxicity. We need a cradel to grave study, with a large sample and then compare. This should put this topic to rest.

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