Is dental amalgam safe for humans? The opinion of the scientific committee of the European Commission

Due to their education and clinical experience, dentist are not able to judge medical systemic adverse side effects caused by dental amalgam, like multiple sclerosis, autism, autoimmunity, Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric diseases etc. Usage of dental amalgam may increase worldwide (increasing caries epidemic in undeveloped countries which constitute the highest percentage of the world's population ). Today, dental organisations are the only trade group of health professionals who endorse the use of a product that is primarily made of mercury. Every amalgam patent has been produced according to dental organisations specifications . This may indeed be a critical point, because organized dentistry, which has always support the use of dental amalgam, are responsible for adverse side effects. Therefore, the strategies of organized dentistry used to influence science and politics over the last decades may be analogous to other well known topics with existing conflicts of interest, where effective measures have been applied to influence science and politics regarding dangerous products.