Norway Bans Dental Amalgam ("Silver") Filling

Happy New Year, everyone!

Here's food for thought as you begin your new 2008: For those people who still are looking to placing mercury amalgam ("silver") fillings in their mouths, think about as to why other countries are banning them.

According to American Dental Association:

"Norway has acted in the New Year to discontinue the use of dental amalgam. The action was part of a sweeping effort to restrict the use of mercury and was done so largely for environmental reasons. It's possible that Sweden may have taken a similar action, but we have not been able to adequately verify this with reliable information at this time (we will provide additional information next week if the issue flares up in the media). No new scientific studies or other new datea have been cited as calling for this sweeping action.

The ban is not expected to have any economic impact in these countries because of their national health care systems - for example, Sweden's health care system stopped paying for amalgam fillings years ago....."

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