The End of Mercury for Children and Pregnant Women

Global support is growing to end the use of amalgam, or mercury fillings, in children and pregnant women.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Two monumental advancements signal the beginning of the end for the use of mercury in dentistry worldwide

• The Fourth Conference of the Parties of the Minamata Convention on Mercury agreed to amend the treaty March 25, 2022, to call for the end of the use of amalgam in deciduous teeth of children under 15 and pregnant and breastfeeding wo…