Health Risk in Dental Fillings Confirmed

June 8, 2008

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FDA Issues New Mercury Warning Pregnant Women and Parents Must Hear

After years of denial, the Food and Drug Administration is now acknowledging

that mercury used in dental fillings could pose a health risk to fetuses and

young children. Mercury amalgams are commonly used to fill cavities in

people of all ages.

The FDA issued a new warning this week after lawsuits by consumer groups,

according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Warning: " Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects

on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses. "

The danger of mercury has long been known, and government controls on

smokestack pollution are designed to limit the fallout of mercury in the

environment, so as to lessen contamination of fish. Eating fish contaminated

with

mercury is the most common way for people to be exposed, and pregnant women,

nursing mothers and children have been warned in recent years to be wary of how

much and which fish they eat.

Now, those concerns will spread to the dentist's chair.

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin. In its toxic form it can interrupt the

normal development of the brain, causing permanent damage, like lowered IQ, and

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