Mercury Free Fillings

The time honored and lowly “silver” filling is a toxic time bomb. With so much to say, where does one start; perhaps with a little history. In the mid 1800’s the Cracour brothers, dentists from France came to America with a new “filling” material for teeth. It was composed of approximately 50% Mercury, 35% silver, 15% tin and zinc. They came on the scene and found favor with many of the dentists of the time. But some dentists opposed them on the grounds that Mercury should not be used in the body at all! These dentists tried to enforce this by having the members of the National Dental Association sign a pledge that they would not use this vile new mercury containing filling material for teeth. Their numbers were not sufficient however and the adherents to the “new material” won out. They banded together and formed what today the American Dental Association. So it is out of this that the political structure of American dentistry and government exist today. Up until recently the American Dental Association owned several patents on the formulation for the mercury amalgam filling components.