Dear Dr. Reitz: My 81-year-old father’s dentist is using silver amalgam to fill his cavities. I thought silver amalgam was no longer used by dentists because it poses a health risk. Should my father ...

Dear Dr. Reitz: My dentist claims amalgam fillings are stronger and better than the new white fillings. When was amalgam first used to fill teeth, and do you think it will be around in the future? – ...

A common test used to determine mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings may significantly overestimate the amount of the toxic metal released from fillings, according to researchers. A common ...

The first clinical trials to study the safety of mercury amalgam dental fillings showed no mental or physical impairments in children carrying the fillings for as long as seven years, according to two ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Can amalgam fillings cause mouth pain? Amalgam fillings have been used for more than 100 years and have been studied extensively. There is no evidence that amalgam fillings cause ...

Cavity treatment used to be simple. A dentist drilled away the decayed part of the tooth and packed the resulting hole with silver-colored mercury amalgam. It wasn’t pretty, but it did the job--at ...

Health Talk: An advertising supplement to The Morning Journal By Jennifer Robb, D.M.D. If you have a cavity in your tooth, you need a filling. How do cavities form? Cavities result from tooth decay.

As if going to the dentist weren't bad enough, a recent YouTube hit titled "Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas" shows an amalgam (a.k.a. silver or metal) filling emitting mercury vapor. It's the latest — and ...