dental amalgam Archives - Gary M. Verigin, DDS, inc.
Removing Mercury Amalgam Fillings – an Important Step but Just One Step
Posted on Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
Imagine you’re locked in a room where low levels of carbon monoxide are constantly being piped in. Eventually, you start to get a headache. You feel queasy, dizzy, weak. But before you get to feeling any worse, someone comes to let you out. A feeling of relief comes quick. So you might expect similar relief […]
If Ever There Were a Case for Minimally-Invasive Dentistry…
Posted on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
A young woman needed a dental exam before starting a new job. She chose a dentist online. She went to her exam. She complained of no dental problems. None of her 32 teeth had ever been restored. Her x-rays showed no signs of decay. The bone supporting her teeth looked healthy. On clinical examination, visual […]
Mercury-Free Dentistry Week 2016: If You Have Amalgams…
Posted on Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
It’s Mercury-Free Dentistry Week, an annual campaign to raise consumer awareness of the problems caused by dentistry’s use of mercury to restore teeth and the possibility of a mercury-free future. But while mercury is a problem, if you have amalgams, the solution isn’t just to go get the fillings removed. There’s a lot more to […]
Peroxide + Mercury Amalgam? Not a Great Mix
Posted on Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
As long as we’re in this mode of updating past posts, we thought to take a look at the continuing research on how tooth bleaching may affect mercury amalgam fillings. For there’s good reason for extra concern. The most recent study, like many that came before, involved exposing amalgam samples to either peroxide or a […]
Recommended Reading: Dr. James Rota’s Mirror of the Body
Posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
Reviewed by Gary M. Verigin, DDS, CTN Mirror of the Body represents the collected thoughts and observations of a brilliant and inquiring dentist. Dr. James Rota, a general practitioner of dentistry whose life focus has been on holistic health, courageously raises important and vital questions concerning commonly accepted medical and dental procedures which can adversely […]
Dr. V’s Evolution to Mercury-Free, Mercury-Safe Dentistry
Posted on Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
This week marks the fifth annual Mercury-Free Dentistry Week, a campaign coordinated by Dr. Mercola and Consumers for Dental Choice to raise awareness of dental amalgam’s toxic burden, the alternative of biological dentistry, and the promise of a mercury-free future. Our office began the transition to mercury-free in the mid-1970s, as Dr. Verigin began investigating […]
Mercury Amalgam Fail
Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Last month, a study published in the European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry found that composite and glass ionomer fillings failed more often than amalgam in children between the ages of 6 and 12. While most of the 300 cases the authors reviewed were successful, a little more than 20% required either the filling re-done or […]
Is There A Battery In Your Mouth? (Guest Post)
Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Our thanks to the office of St. Louis biological dentist Dr. Michael Rehme for letting us share his article on an often overlooked dental condition: oral galvanism. Is there a battery in your mouth? That’s a strange question to ask or is it? Did you know that most metals found in your mouth have the […]
Yet More Evidence Pointing to Mercury Amalgam’s Risk
Posted on Thursday, January 15th, 2015
In 2000, Freya Koss filed a personal malpractice suit against her former dentist. Her complaint alleged that the dentist had exposed her to dangerous levels of mercury vapor during the unsafe removal of an existing amalgam filling and replacement with a new one. Further, she alleged that her injuries were due to numerous deviations from […]
Keeping Mercury Amalgam Out of the Water
Posted on Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
Dental mercury is an issue that affects all of us – even those of us who have never had an amalgam filling put in our mouths. For dentistry is the single largest source of the mercury that pollutes our public water supplies. Now the EPA has finally proposed a new rule to do something about […]
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