A debate has been running for decades about the safety of amalgam tooth fillings (the silvery-looking ones most people are familiar with). Some public-interest groups and consumers say that since such ...

There is still no agreement between ÖGK and the Dental Association regarding a health insurance-funded replacement for amalgam as a dental filling material. The Association cancelled the negotiation ...

There's a pervasive problem in restorative dentistry, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association (July 2011, Vol. 142:7, pp. 842-849): Too many dentists are replacing ...

But now an alternative to amalgam in fillings is on the horizon and promises to be both safe and low cost. A new $11 million Co-operative Research Centre project, partly funded by the federal ...

Diagnosis of oral lichenoid lesions (OLL) and whether adjacent amalgam restorations should be replaced are controversial matters. This review identified no RCTs or CCTs, and therefore included 19 ...

Following the ban on amalgam as a dental filling material, which came into force at the beginning of the year, the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK) and the Austrian Dental Association (ZÄK) were ...

Following the ban on amalgam as a dental filling material that came into effect at the beginning of the year, the ÖGK and the Dental Association are once again trying to agree on a health ...

Medline (1966–2000), Embase (1980–2000) and the Cochrane Library (issue 2, 2000) were reviewed along with reference lists of existing relevant reviews. Data were extracted that related to: study ...

The ADA Forsyth Institute (AFI) received a $6.2 million grant from the U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-powered smart ...