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Can silver dental fillings make you sick? The American Dental Association says absolutely not.Luci Sampler suffers from arthritis. A chiropractor suggested the underlying cause was silver amalgam dental fillings.
“So I said okay. Maybe I should have the metal fillings out and the other fillings in, so we tried that but I can’t really tell the difference,” said Luci.
Debate over the safety of silver amalgam spans several decades. Dr. Marvin Hirsch, an authority on dental amalgam, says there is no evidence that the filling material causes harm.
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“The studies of dental amalgam have been broad, often, and over and over again, it is proved that mercury in dental amalgam fillings is safe,” said Dr. Hirsch.Most people are familiar with the concerns of liquid mercury, like in your thermometer. But in dental amalgam, the mercury is combined with silver to become solid. In the solid form, the mercury component is stable and poses no health risk.
But silver amalgam does have one drawback. It is not attractive. So only for cosmetic reasons did Luci's dentist replace her silver fillings.
Dr. Lee Fitzgerald said, " I would never recommend telling them to remove their silver amalgam fillings with a guarantee of health benefits. It's unethical to do that. If they choose to replace their fillings because they want to, then that's a choice they make."
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The American Dental Association labels all efforts to ban silver fillings as “junk science.” And the association says dental amalgam is the most thoroughly researched and tested material in dentistry. For more, see our web site at dentalhealthcck.org. For Texas A & M Health Science Center, Baylor College of Dentistry, I’m Dr. Linda Niessen.
THE BROADCAST VIDEO
STORY: SILVER FILLINGS SAFETY
SCRIPT #467 SHOOT: 9/08/06
AIRDATE: April 2008
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