Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks SCHER Preliminary report on the environmental risks and indirect health effects of mercury in dental amalgam

Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks SCHER Opinion on the environmental risks and indirect health effects of mercury in dental amalgam

EEB/ZMWG comments on the SCHER Preliminary report on the environmental risks and indirect health effects of mercury in dental amalgam

Preliminary Opinion on the environmental risks and indirect health effects of mercury from dental amalgam (update)

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Is dental amalgam safe for humans? The opinion of the scientific committee of the European Commission

It was claimed by the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR)) in a report to the EU-Commission that "....no risks of adverse systemic effects exist and the current use of dental amalgam does not pose a risk of systemic disease..." [1, available from: http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_o_016.pdf].SCENIHR disregarded the tox...

Dental amalgam and mercury in dentistry.

Mercury in dentistry has re-emerged as a contentious issue in public health, predominantly because so many people are inadvertently exposed to mercury in order to obtain the benefits of dental amalgam fillings, and the risks remain difficult to interpret. This commentary aims to examine the issues involved in public policy assessment of the continued use of dental amalgam in dentistry. More tha...