WASHINGTON, DC, USA: The US Food and Drug Administration said silver-coloured dental fillings that contain mercury are safe for patients, reversing an earlier caution against their use in certain patients, including pregnant women and children. While elemental mercury has been associated with adverse health effects at high exposures, the levels released by dental amalgam fillings are not high enough to cause harm in patients, the FDA said, citing an agency review of roughly 200 scientific studies.
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Posted by: Peter ahren, stockholm, sweden — Oct 12, 2009 10:13:38 AM2
Silver fillings should be out of use as mercury pollute your water in Pennsylvania. The amount of mercury in the sewerplants have gone down very much since dentist no longer can pollute the water by doing silverfillings in Sweden. You have been around mercury for 42 years.. Some smokars have smoket 40-50 years and have no... harm done to them as they clam.! ?
We have much better alternativ today than silver fillings.
Posted by: Dale C. Resue, Jr.DMD- Broomall PA — Sep 13, 2009 7:03:06 PM1
Pennsylvaina is the second most polluted state in the US, especially in the eastern part of the state. This is do to the large amount of coal burned by power plants, factories, private homes, and the Centrailia coal mine fires. The residents are exposed to more mercury from breathing the air and drinking the water than coming out of the silver fillings. And if all that mercury is coming out of the fillings, why are they not falling apart? I have some 40 year old fillings still in tack. I've been around mercury for at least 42 years counting dental school, the Naval dental corp, and privatey practice, and do not have any of the symtoms "the ckinken-littles of the mercury sky is falling" talk abouit. I would guess that Dentist and dental assistants would have the greatest exposure, why arn't we dropping like flies?
FDA says mercury dental fillings not harmful
WASHINGTON, DC, USA: The US Food and Drug Administration said silver-coloured dental fillings that contain mercury are safe for patients, reversing an earlier caution against their use in certain patients, including pregnant women and children. While elemental mercury has been associated with adverse health effects at high exposures, the levels released by dental amalgam fillings are not high enough to cause harm in patients, the FDA said, citing an agency review of roughly 200 scientific studies.
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Silver fillings should be out of use as mercury pollute your water in Pennsylvania. The amount of mercury in the sewerplants have gone down very much since dentist no longer can pollute the water by doing silverfillings in Sweden. You have been around mercury for 42 years.. Some smokars have smoket 40-50 years and have no... harm done to them as they clam.! ? We have much better alternativ today than silver fillings.
Pennsylvaina is the second most polluted state in the US, especially in the eastern part of the state. This is do to the large amount of coal burned by power plants, factories, private homes, and the Centrailia coal mine fires. The residents are exposed to more mercury from breathing the air and drinking the water than coming out of the silver fillings. And if all that mercury is coming out of the fillings, why are they not falling apart? I have some 40 year old fillings still in tack. I've been around mercury for at least 42 years counting dental school, the Naval dental corp, and privatey practice, and do not have any of the symtoms "the ckinken-littles of the mercury sky is falling" talk abouit. I would guess that Dentist and dental assistants would have the greatest exposure, why arn't we dropping like flies?
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