If the FDA follows these recommendations, it will be a huge reversal from their previously held position. After reviewing the available scientific studies and the presentations of researchers, experts, dentists, and injured consumers, the panel concluded that amalgam is not safe for everybody.

Pediatric neurologist Dr. Suresh Kotagal of the Mayo Clinic summed it up for the panel, “There is really no place for mercury in children.”

The panel will urge the FDA to act quickly and declare that amalgam use is contraindicated for these vulnerable populations, but it may take as much as six months to see what the FDA will actually do.

You can go to our “Links” page and visit the websites of the IAOMT as well as Consumers for Dental Choice to see further details about this recent hearing.

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