MERCURY Free DENTISTRY

Our dental team treats patients with the goal of reaching health goals through personalized care. When providing care, we do so with the knowledge that dental disease, as well as dental work, will affect the body. Dr. Kovtun is proud to offer mercury-free dental services.

Mercury-free dentistry involves the exclusion of mercury in the dental office. You have probably never been told that your teeth are being repaired with mercury. Where mercury is a part of dentistry is in amalgam filling material.

Dental amalgam was formulated more than a hundred and fifty years ago. This material, which contains various metals, was intended as an affordable alternative to the gold filling material. Containing nickel, tin, and other metals together is mercury. In the century and a half, since amalgam was developed, several other options for fillings have become available. Amalgam, however, has remained one of the most frequently used restorative materials.

To learn more on Mercury safe dentistry you can visit www.mercurysafedentist.com