Is there poison in your mouth?

Author: 60 Minutes

Source: CBS

Year: 1990

Comment:

This segment, from America's popular investigative reporting TV news show 60 Minutes, examines a variety of issues related to dental amalgam mercury such as mercury vapor and patient consent.

Abstract / Excerpt:

“…It is a filling, a silver amalgam filling, the dentist’s filling of choice for more than a century. More than a hundred million of them were put into American mouths last year.  What you probably don’t know is that these so-called silver fillings are 50% mercury, and mercury is more poisonous than even lead or even arsenic.”

Citation:

CBS.  Is there poison in your mouth? 60 Minutes. December 16, 1990.