Region V of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the American Dental Association (ADA) a grant to provide information to dentists in the Great Lakes region on ADA's Best Management Practices for handling dental amalgam waste.
Dental amalgam is a silver-colored material widely used to fill cavities and is made when elemental mercury is combined with other metals into a stable alloy.
The $45,000 grant enables the ADA to distribute informational packets,
including an ADA brochure and video produced in collaboration with the Naval
Institute for Dental and Biomedical Research, to more than 40,000 practicing
dentists in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Dentistry contributes less than 1 percent of all mercury released to the
environment from human activity.
Information on the ADA's Best Management Practices is available on the ADA's Web site at http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/amalgam_bmp.asp.
In addition to promoting amalgam recycling to its 149,000 members, the ADA also provides dentists with information on recycling silver and lead waste generated during x-ray procedures.
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