Is amalgam (silver tooth filling) poisonous?

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i believe gotsmack, what other explaination is there for his supporting Joe Biden? has to be mercury poisoning

I know he is out of the race. I'm too lazy to change it.

 

[FoBoT]

it was just a cheap joke at your expense

i wonder if Joe Biden has any amalgam fillings


no, wait, it is Kucinich that saw the UFOs , right? maybe he has lots of amalgam fillings

 

[AgentUnknown]

Amalgam is not poisonous. It has been used for over a hundred years.

 

[Turnpike]

This clearly needs to be settled with pure, evidence based, peer reviewed literature. These are from JAMA, NOT the ADA. Hypothesize all you want, but you are wrong. Your opinions cannot be validated without randomized clinical trials such as these:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/15/1775
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/c...t/abstract/295/15/1784

 

[Pepsei]

omg, i missed all the fun debating on if amalgam is poisonous or not..... just like other fun medical topics circumcision, or herpes population.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Turnpike
This clearly needs to be settled with pure, evidence based, peer reviewed literature. These are from JAMA, NOT the ADA. Hypothesize all you want, but you are wrong. Your opinions cannot be validated without randomized clinical trials such as these:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/15/1775
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/c...t/abstract/295/15/1784

thanks for the links.

Conclusions: In this study, children who received dental restorative treatment with amalgam did not, on average, have statistically significant differences in neurobehavioral assessments or in nerve conduction velocity when compared with children who received resin composite materials without amalgam. These findings, combined with the trend of higher treatment need later among those receiving composite, suggest that amalgam should remain a viable dental restorative option for children.