Dental amalgam: Anti-mercury movement pushes for shifts in dentistry

"What's not up for debate is that silver fillings, commonly called dental amalgam, contribute mercury pollution to the environment.
Global consensus on that issue has led some anti-mercury crusaders, who long have sought to ban the material from dental products because of health concerns, to shift their focus to a fight they think they have a better chance of winning.
"The approach to getting to the end of amalgam is the environment," said Charlie Brown, president of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, a multinational group that lobbies to ban the use of mercury in dentistry."

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