Baylor Dental Journal, Fall/Winter 2015 A cracked tooth may begin without warning as a tiny fissure on the chewing surface and begin its advance through the tooth undetected. It may lurk in silence even as repeated stress causes the crack to advance downward toward the nerve and blood vessels at the tooth’s center. In […]
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If you are a member of the “Baby Boomer” generation, as I am, you propably have several “silver” or “amalgam” fillings in your teeth. Until the mid 1980’s or early 1990’s these fillings were the preferred material for restoring posterior (bicuspid and molar) teeth. One big drawback to this material is that it contains Mercury.
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[Note from Dr Oliver: This article contains very controversial subject matter. The issue of mercury in silver amalgam fillings is far from over. I have not placed a silver filling in over 20 years, mainly because the newer materials are tooth colored and give much better aesthetic results. If you are one of the
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