They Were Children First: The Unanswered Questions of the Casa Pia Mercury Trial
It is easy, after twenty years, to turn Casa Pia into an argument about regulatory classification. That would be a mistake. The people at the center of this story were children. They did not design the study. They did not write the protocol. They did not decide which material would be placed in their teeth. They did not select the investigators. They did not determine which outcomes would be measured. They did not decide which data would be available for analysis. And they did not write the regulatory rules that eventually cited the scientific record generated by their participation. Many were already vulnerable before the study began.
How a U.S. Government Mercury Trial Became a Benchmark for Dental Amalgam – and Why Its Record Demands to Be Reopened
In 2012, I traveled from California to Portugal with the late documentary filmmaker Kelly Gallagher. Together with Portuguese investigative journalist Rita Marrafa de Carvalho of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), Portugal’s national public broadcaster, we went into one of the country’s darkest chapters.
The Safe Removal of Mercury Amalgam Dental Fillings.
The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) has created the Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique (SMART) to protect dental patients, dental staff and the environment from the mercury generated during the removal of an amalgam filling. The IAOMT created the SMART recommendations based on years of patient demand, scientific research, occupational safety requirements, […]
New Research Links Dental Amalgam Mercury Fillings To Arthritis.
New research links arthritis to dental amalgam fillings. These silver-colored fillings are 50% mercury and are still used in, often in disadvantaged children and adults. In this new study, researchers David and Mark Geier report on a significant relationship between the number of dental amalgam filling surfaces and diagnoses of arthritis. They find that incidences […]
CDC Data Show Toxic Mercury Exposures from Dental Mercury Amalgam Fillings Pose Risk to Majority of Americans.
San Diego, CA, Oct, 6th 2022/ — This is an alert to the public provided by the The Preventive Dental Health Association (PDHA) that recently published data from the CDC’s NHANES database indicates one amalgam dental filling, which contains 50% mercury, exposes an individual to daily levels of mercury in excess of safety limits. A […]