Dental amalgams used in silver fillings consist of a variety of metals, including a large amount of mercury, which scientists believe can slowly leak into the body causing severe diseases.

Dr. Stay explains the separation between integrative (holistic) dentistry and traditional dentistry.

“There’s the holistic… dentist and then the traditional dentist and there’s this big rift between the two… With holistic dentistry a lot of the modalities that [practitioners} practice or recommend to patients may not be able to be repeated for treatment… but yet, for example Academy of General Dentistry which is a very reputable organization, on their website they list herbs that are good in dental treatment. They list different approaches for dental health.”  

Holistic dentists generally have a non-mercury practice and are also called alternative dentists, naturopathic dentists, or just mercury-free dentists. Services include mercury removal, cavitation dentistry, biocalex root canal, and non-surgical TMJ treatment.