BSS, Dhaka :
Health experts at a meeting on Friday called for eliminating use of mercury in dental treatment to protect human health and environment.
Widespread awareness should be created among the dentists, dental students, patients and mass people about mercury-free dental restoration, they told the meeting on “South, South-East Asian Summit for Mercury Free Dentistry” here. Asian Center for Environmental Health in association with World Alliance for Mercury Free Dentistry (WAMFD), USA and Environment and Social Development organization (ESDO) organized the meeting.
President of World Alliance for Mercury Free Dentistry Attorney Charlie Brown, President of Bangladesh Dental Society Professor Dr. Ali Asgor Moral, Director of Asian Center and Executive Director of ESDO Siddika Sulatana and Ram Charitra Sah, Executive Director of Center for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED), Nepal, officials and dental professionals, among others, addressed the meeting with ESDO Chairperson Syed Marghub Murshed in the chair.
Vice President of World Alliance of Mercury Free Dentistry (South Asia) Dr Shahriar Hossain presented the keynote paper at the meeting.
Charlie Brown said, “We serve as a unique resource for nations working to implement the Minamata Convention’s amalgam phase out measures.” He conferred about improving the dental school curriculum and informing the young dental professionals about the negative impacts of mercury amalgam on health and environment.
Murshed said dental amalgam contains approximately 50% mercury which is a highly polluting neurotoxin. The mercury amalgam should be banned in dentistry and ESDO is working to phase out amalgam use for better future, he added. In his keynote paper, Dr Shahriar said, “Now-a-days mercury-free dental restorations are increasingly effective, environment-friendly, available and affordable.”
Other speakers said dental amalgam exposure adversely affects our environment. Dental clinic disposes it to nearby land or water bodies and mercury from amalgam causes water and air pollution, they added.
Health experts at a meeting on Friday called for eliminating use of mercury in dental treatment to protect human health and environment.
Widespread awareness should be created among the dentists, dental students, patients and mass people about mercury-free dental restoration, they told the meeting on “South, South-East Asian Summit for Mercury Free Dentistry” here. Asian Center for Environmental Health in association with World Alliance for Mercury Free Dentistry (WAMFD), USA and Environment and Social Development organization (ESDO) organized the meeting.
President of World Alliance for Mercury Free Dentistry Attorney Charlie Brown, President of Bangladesh Dental Society Professor Dr. Ali Asgor Moral, Director of Asian Center and Executive Director of ESDO Siddika Sulatana and Ram Charitra Sah, Executive Director of Center for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED), Nepal, officials and dental professionals, among others, addressed the meeting with ESDO Chairperson Syed Marghub Murshed in the chair.
Vice President of World Alliance of Mercury Free Dentistry (South Asia) Dr Shahriar Hossain presented the keynote paper at the meeting.
Charlie Brown said, “We serve as a unique resource for nations working to implement the Minamata Convention’s amalgam phase out measures.” He conferred about improving the dental school curriculum and informing the young dental professionals about the negative impacts of mercury amalgam on health and environment.
Murshed said dental amalgam contains approximately 50% mercury which is a highly polluting neurotoxin. The mercury amalgam should be banned in dentistry and ESDO is working to phase out amalgam use for better future, he added. In his keynote paper, Dr Shahriar said, “Now-a-days mercury-free dental restorations are increasingly effective, environment-friendly, available and affordable.”
Other speakers said dental amalgam exposure adversely affects our environment. Dental clinic disposes it to nearby land or water bodies and mercury from amalgam causes water and air pollution, they added.
