This November 2017 article by IAOMT’s Jack Kall, DMD, and Amanda Just explains the science behind dental mercury and other environmental toxicants and different response factors related to dental mercury exposure. Click here to read the entire article from the World Mercury Project.
PRNewswire-USNewswire CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla., Oct. 4, 2017 October is Dental Hygiene Month, but not all dentists will be touting the alleged benefits of fluoride. In fact, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) is using this month to raise awareness of the health risks associated with fluoride. This is especially timely because of recent [...]
The results of the first ever US government funded study of fluoride and IQ have just been published. A team of researchers found a statistically significant association between fluoride exposure in women during pregnancy and a lowering of IQ in their children, reports the Fluoride Action Network. The study was published in Environmental Health Perspectives by scientists [...]
In August of 2017, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force. The Minamata Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury, and it includes sections on dental amalgam. The IAOMT is an accredited member of member of UNEP’s Global [...]
This 2017 news story calls for connecting dentistry and medicine. The author explains, “Breaking through the barrier between dentistry and medicine could be a crucial step towards better all-round health. Since the practice of dentistry was founded, the two professions have largely been seen as separate entities; however, twenty-first-century science has established that oral health [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated their dental effluent guidelines in 2017. Amalgam separators are now required pretreatment standards to reduce discharges of mercury from dental offices into publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). EPA expects compliance with this final rule will annually reduce the discharge of mercury by 5.1 tons as well as 5.3 [...]
CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla., July 12, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This summer, the world is taking two essential steps toward abating the damage caused by dental mercury fillings. Actions by both the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to restrict the use of dental mercury are being commended by the International Academy [...]
This article by the IAOMT was published by the World Mercury Project in June 2017 and provides basic facts about dental mercury. Click here to read the entire article from the World Mercury Project.
This 2017 news story notes that the separation of dentistry from medicine can have devastating consequences. The author explains, “Specializing in one part of the body isn’t what’s weird—it would be one thing if dentists were like dermatologists or cardiologists. The weird thing is that oral care is divorced from medicine’s education system, physician networks, [...]
This article by IAOMT’s Jack Kall, DMD, and Amanda Just explains the IAOMT’s Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique (SMART). Click here to read the full article from February 2017 in the Natural Blaze.
