Dentists have been using dental amalgam to fill cavities for more than 150 years. Now one group is suing the FDA, claiming that people are getting sick and that silver fillings need to be banned. I ...

Researchers have engineered a biomaterial scaffold that allows cells to form tooth-like structures, a significant step ...

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

The notion that the mercury in the silver-colored fillings in our teeth might be poisoning us is having yet another resurgence, scaring people half- silly and confusing them thoroughly. A recent ...

The debate over whether mercury in dental fillings can leach out and cause a wide range of health problems — from multiple sclerosis and cancer to Alzheimer's disease — refuses to die down. The ...

While some countries have already phased out the use mercury use in dental amalgam, the remaining countries agreed to the timeline put in place by The Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international ...

Senior U.S. health officials have squelched a Food and Drug Administration proposal that for the first time would have curbed dentists' use of mercury - one of the planet's nastiest toxins because it ...

Light Lane Dental Practice, Coventry, has announced the availability of private white fillings for patients looking to restore teeth in a more natural and discreet way. This update provides people ...

Reporting from Washington — For more than two decades, the Food and Drug Administration, under pressure from consumer activists and some medical experts, has wrestled with how to regulate dental ...

A resin in the most commonly used white composite dental fillings may be linked to subtle neuropsychological deficits in children. The association appears in reanalyzed data collected from 434 ...