Amalgam is dangerous???

[Blue Tooth]

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<a href="http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,235009,00.html" target="_blank">Time Magazine</a>

How many of you had heard of this? Very interesting article. I did some more looking into this after reading it and came across a bunch of pro and against sites, books, articles, etc. This controversy reminds me of the evolution vs intelligent design argument. The anti-amalgamists seem to make all these arguments based on published studies, various elements of science, and some sound logic and them attack their critics and basically make them look stupid. But what I found out as I dug deeper is that they leave out certain key elements whose presence would prolly undermine them.

Anyways, you can do a google search and find a lot of the same stuff I did or I can post it if you're interested. Either way, considering that we're going into this is makes sense that we should be aware of this potential hoax.

 

[deciduous]

I have been around this argument for sometime working at a pediatric dental office. I agree that the piles and piles of pros and cons are out there. I think you have to make an individual decision on that after becoming as educated on the subject as possible. I think amalgams are very useful, but I know I have a different viewpoint than many of you do or will. I am also open for a restoration that might work as well, but I've not hear of one yet, short of a stainless steel crown on deciduous teeth (I don't know much about permanent tooth restorations). If you want more, go to PubMed. You can usually get free articles through your school, if you're still there.

 

[markymark]

before you look up more information on this topic, make sure you stay away from dot com sites. they tend to be more biased towards anti-amalgam. try to look at published studies, as deciduous mentioned. then you will see that amalgam is a viable restorative material. (you get more mercury from eating fish than from amalgam).