BioProbe.com
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Bio-Probe, Inc.
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The "Amalgam Wars" have gone on since the introduction of mercury amalgam as a dental filling material in England and France in the 1820s. Because "amalgam" by definition means an alloy of various metals mixed with mercury, it was natural for a great deal of controversy to surround its use as a dental material. After all, mercury is one of the most toxic metals known to man. The controversy was confined primarily within the medical and dental professions, with very little media coverage addressed to the general population. The basic controversy was between health professionals: One group concerned that implanting mercury in the human body presented unacceptable health risks to the patient; the other group claiming that amalgam was so easy to use that it would permit dentists to treat large numbers of patients cheaply and that this benefit outweighed the possible health risk to the patient.
It wasn't until the early 1980s that the controversy started to spill over into the public domain when scientific research was published showing that amalgam fillings released mercury vapor and that this toxic vapor was being continuously inhaled by every person who had amalgam fillings implanted in their teeth.
The only easily available general source of information for the media, public and health professional on the subject of amalgam was the American Dental Association, whose policy since its inception in the 1850s was that amalgam was an excellent dental material and was completely safe, presenting no health risk to the general patient population.
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