Many people are now having their dental amalgam, or silver, fillings removed over concerns about the mercury used in them — but should you?

Q. I have been to my new dentist three times for cleaning only. I am 62 years old and have no problems that I am aware of. Every time I go, he wants to take out three silver fillings that were done ...

In the past, most of the filling materials used in dentistry were silver fillings, also referred to as amalgam fillings. Therefore, anyone who had a silver filling placed more than 10 years ago might ...

New scientific evidence from animal studies has rekindled the controversy over whether ”silver” dental fillings are dangerous. Since its founding 130 years ago, the American Dental Association has ...

ldquo;I remember having to go through stuff as children do. Back then, that was over 50 years ago, I didn't know about flossing and things we do now. rdquo; Billie Odor, had silver fillings removed ...

Two long-awaited, government-funded studies found no evidence that dental fillings containing mercury can cause IQ-lowering brain damage or other neurological problems in children. Children with such ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning against the use of dental amalgam – a popular filling material that contains mercury – in certain groups of people. Dental amalgam contains a mixture ...

Why the controversy around silver fillings? Mercury is what’s put in them, and it expands and contracts, and when you do that to a tooth over a long period of time, it “percolates.” After a while, ...

Shame on the Tribune for giving such prominence (top of Page 1) to the silver dental fillings article recently. Would you call a test on six sheep in Canada significant? Were the sheep anesthetized?

Q. I have been so curious about this. I had a silver filling in one of my molars, that my dentist claimed expanded, and cracked the tooth into four sections, like splitting a log with a maul. One ...