Links and Resources

Check out the following links for more information about this issue. If you know of a link or resource that we should add to this page, please contact us.

Government of Canada

• Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
  
  • Canada-wide Standard for Dental Amalgam Waste (September 21, 2001) (link to PDF file)
  • Initial set of actions for the Canada-wide Standard for Dental Amalgam Waste (September 21, 2001) (link to pdf file)
• U.S. and Canada Binational Toxics Strategy Mercury Workgroup
  

Municipal Government

• City of Toronto Sewer Use By-law (link to PDF file)
• City of Calgary Sewer Use By-law (link to PDF file)
• Victoria Capital Region District Sewer Use By-law
  
  • Victoria's Code of Practise for Dental Operations

Industry

• Dental Recycling North America - manufacturers of amalgam separators
• SolmeteX Inc. - manufacturers of amalgam separators
• Maximum Separation Systems - manufacturers of amalgam separators
  

Dentists and Dentistry Links

• Canadian Dental Association
  
  • "Canada-wide Standards: A Pollution Prevention Program for Dental Amalgam Waste" in the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association (May 2001)
    
  • Can-Dent.com - A Directory of Canadian dentists.
    
• Ontario Dental Association
  
  • Search the ODA database for dentists in Ontario
    
• American Dental Association
  
  • ADA Searchable Directory of U.S. Dentists
    
  • "Potential Health and Environmental Issues of Mercury-Contaminated Amalgamators" in the Journal of the American Dental Association (January 2001).
    
  • Definitive Study Reveals No Relationship Between Dental Amalgam and Alzheimer's Disease" - January 1999 ADA Media Release
    
• Academy of General Dentistry
  
• International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology - A Professional Organization for the Dentist, Physician, and Allied Health Researcher Seeking to Improve the Quality and Safety of Oral Medicine and Dentistry
  
  • A comprehensive bibliography for articles and studies on the release of mercury from dental amalgam.
    

Miscellaneous Resources

• P2Rx Topic Hub - Dental Mercury
  
• Mercury Pollution Prevention in Healthcare (report of the U.S. National Wildlife Federation, July 1997)
  
• The National Academy of Sciences report "Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury" (July 2000)
  
• Environment Canada studies on mercury in loons
  
• Mercury research page of the Atmospheric Science Division of Environment Canada
  
• Medical Academic & Scientific Community Organization (MASCO) Mercury Work Group
  
• U.S. National Atmospheric Deposition Program Mercury Deposition Network
  
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency's page on Mercury and Fish Consumption
• Commission on Environmental Cooperation's North American Mercury Action Plan
  
• U.S. Naval Dental Research Institute web page on Dental Mercury Environmental Issues
  
• Wisconsin Mercury Sourcebook chapter on Dentists
  
• A simple on-line calculation for determining how much mercury a dental practice is releasing into the environment each year
  
• "The Mercury Scare - Are legislators muddying the water on the wastewater issue?", press release by the Academy of General Dentistry (June 2001)
  
• Blueprint for Mercury Elimination developed by the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District as part of the Mercury Zero Discharge Project