No more mercury in your mouth: toxic metal’s use as tooth filling to end by 2034

Mercury, a fixture of dentistry for more than 175 years, is finally set for extinction.
Countries around the world agreed on Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams by 2034 in a decisive step towards protecting human health from the toxic metal.
At a conference in Geneva, signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury – aimed at protecting humans and the environment from mercury pollution – called time on mercury amalgams.
Nations agreed “to end the use of dental amalgam…