In a recent article in the ADA News, the American Dental Association states that dental amalgam is a safe and effective material for restorative procedures. It has many benefits, reasonable cost, durability and ease of placement being among them, and the ADA studies have shown that exposure to mercury from dental amalgam has no adverse health risks. If you would like to learn more on this issue, please visit the ADA web site at www.ada.org. This article is printed in the recent January 5, 2004 issue of ADA News.

As published by The Columbus Dispatch, Wednesday, July 24, 2002:

No-pain drilling
'Sedating dentists' draw the fearful into their chairs

Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Dennis Fiely THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
ERIC ALBRECHT | DISPATCH

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In a dentist's chair, nothing is better than feeling nothing. 
Novocain doesn't cut it for many patients, who want something more -- to send them into dreamland or knock them out.