Last year, the European Union adopted a regulation banning amalgam use for children under age 15, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers beginning 1 July 2018. Now that day is here!
With the EU’s partial amalgam ban officially in effect, we are seeing some immediate changes in that region, including:
- News articles are raising awareness about the mercury in amalgam – so everyone will know the truth about their so-called “silver fillings.”
- Government guidance is telling UK dentists not to use amalgam in the most vulnerable populations.
- The German government is working to revise its national insurance to account for the increased use of mercury-free fillings.
A call to phase out mercury use in dentistry by 2022 in the European Union has been made by health and environmental NGOs.
European NGOs are calling on dentists to implement immediately the upcoming ban on mercury dental fillings for children and pregnant women.
When we started, the European Union was the largest user of amalgam in the world – but that is about to change.
European civil society has endorsed this week’s provisional agreement by the three EU institutions (European Parliament, European Commission and the Council of the European Union) to ban dental amalgam fillings for children under 15 and for pregnant and breastfeeding women as of 1 July 2018. 
World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry 