A potent neurotoxin, mercury can inflict psychological, neurological, immunological, and endocrinal damage to your health. Exposure can also cause chronic inflammation, which is the foundation of numerous diseases.
Coal power plants, which generate more than 50 percent of electricity in the United States, are the number one source of mercury pollution in the environment. There are about 600 coal-fueled power plants in the US, and each releases about 170 pounds of mercury into the air together with other air pollutants. That's 51 tons of mercury discharged into the environment annually.
REMEMBER: You can get sick from just ONE mercury dental filling. Add daily exposure to mercury vapors from amalgams to your other mercury and heavy metal exposures every single day, and you get an idea how much your health is endangered.
Aside from the issue of profitability, these toxic amalgams are easier to install than composite fillings. The dental industry also has a powerful entity backing it up – the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA continues to allow the use of "silver fillings" without warning that they are made of mercury!
Mercury free dentists are emerging and providing safe alternatives to mercury fillings.