The Only Safe Place…

One Friday, I returned a call to a patient who was bringing her mom in for a dental appointment that coming Monday, as her mom had lost a mercury “silver” filling. She described how she’d picked up the filling with a latex glove, put it in a baggie and sealed it, and put both the baggie and glove in a glass jar and sealed that. “Was that okay?” she asked.

“Almost perfect,” I replied.

“Almost perfect?” she said. “Dr. Glaros, what would you have done?”

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The FDA — Protecting Us?

In its ongoing effort to protect the American public the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued an updated warning about skin care products, imported primarily from China, which may contain mercury, specifically anti-aging, skin-lightening beauty lotions and creams. Their studies showed that some of the tainted creams have been found to contain mercury levels up to 131,000 times the acceptable limit of mercury.

So, with all of this attention being paid to mercury in the environment, in our food and the products we purchase, one must wonder why the FDA has not agreed to immediately ban toxic mercury fillings as well. They have only agreed to think about ‘reclassifying’ mercury at some ambiguous date in the future.

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