And this includes 5,000 pounds of mercury from our dental fillings alone every year.

Ancient humans even made rudimentary drills to smooth out the rough holes left behind and beeswax to plug cavities, like modern-day fillings.

When cavities do develop, we use tooth fillings to fill and close off the infected area, preventing them from getting worse.

Soil scientists at Washington State University, the grad students, anyway, are working to compost teeth with amalgam fillings so that we can understand what happens to the mercury therein.

Since our family arrived, so many people and organizations have offered to help, providing everything from free dental fillings to summer camps.

So there's an increase in people having to have their fillings replaced.

I being of Puertorican descent, had mixed fillings about this "documentary".

The silver wasted in the emulsion would have gone to far better use in dental fillings.

Technological innovations have replaced mercury in batteries, dental fillings, and thermometers: mercury consumption is down 98% and, by 2000, the price was down 90%.

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