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Focus Altern Complement Ther 2002; 7: 409
The American Dental Association launched a media campaign aimed at discouraging patients from having amalgam fillings removed and physicians from recommending the intervention. Patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and autism hope that their conditions can be corrected by removing amalgams but there is no evidence to support this. The US National Institutes of Health are 2 years into a 7-year multicentre clinical trial of children aged 6–10 years to whether any adverse health effect result from amalgam filling. No findings have yet been released.
Lancet 2002; 360: 393.
