Mercury and Fluoride, two chemicals that can be highly toxic, or highly helpful to dental health.
Lead and Bisphenol A, two more scary chemicals that might be in our dental work. It’s enough to make you wonder whether dentists might sometimes be doing more harm than good.
What’s worse, the scientific evidence isn’t clear.
Sighed one dentist, “I’d like to be doing all gold restorations.”
Another dentist commented, “I feel it’s ironic that some patients don’t want ‘artificial chemicals’ in their mouth and decline the natural elements in amalgam in favor of the complex chemistry of composites!”
The Wealthy Dentist conducted a survey of dentists asking how concerned they are about various potential public health threats linked to chemicals in dentistry.
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What dental chemicals concern you?