Amalgam: A dental filling in everybody’s mout

Already in 1999 Sweden took their first steps to stop the use of amalgam. Since 2008 there is a ban on amalgam use in Norway and Denmark, in Sweden they banned the use of mercury in general.

The updated statement of the EU (SCENIHR) of 29 April 2015 on dental amalgam and dental fillings for patients and users, stipulates that at the use of amalgam preventive measures for the protection of the health must be implicated, as the inhalation of mercury from dental amalgam is the main source of mercury exposition for the population of the EU.

Mercury and its compounds are highly toxic to humans, ecosystems and wildlife and even relatively low amounts can seriously harm the nervous system, kidneys, liver, the thyroid gland, the gingiva and the skin.

For the very reason, that Amalgam can have far-reaching consequences for the health, many European associations have united, with the demand to forbid Mercury in general and Amalgam dental fillings until 2018.

The Patiente Vertriedung Asbl, supports this demand for a ban of Amalgam as dental filling.

The Patiente Vertriedung Asbl, also demands that amalgam dental fillings get dropped from the nomenclature of dental treatments of the CNS, and that they should not be reimbursed by the CNS anymore.

As compensation the Patiente Vertriedung Asbl, proposes that modern composite filling materials are integrated in the dental medical act and will be integrally reimbursed by the CNS, so that additional expenses will burden neither the dentist nor the patient.

Generally the Patiente Vertriedung Asbl, demands in this context that the whole nomenclature in the area of dentistry gets overhauled and gets adapted to modern standards