The studies indicate that on average we probably don't have much to worry about from amalgam used in the quantities that it is used for dental purposes. The studies do leave open the question that there could be some small percentage of children who are particularly sensitive [to mercury], and we wouldn't have been able to detect them in our study.

David Bellinger

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