What does a Proposition 65 notice in a dental office mean?
If a notice is posted at a dental office, this means that one or more listed chemicals are used in dental treatments as stated in the notice which is displayed to comply with this California state law. As indicated in the notice, all restorative materials used in dentistry have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That agency has concluded “there is overwhelming agreement among major health authorities that have assessed these risks that there is no evidence of a serious threat to the general population whose dental caries are treated with amalgam.” The Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and other respected U.S. and international health agencies, continue to review and monitor scientific evidence with regard to the use of restorative (filling) materials and, to date, have det
