While middle class consumers opt for mercury-free filling
materials, people in developing nations, low-income families,
minorities, military personnel, prisoners, and people with disabilities
are still subjected to amalgam. Racial minorities are more likely to
receive amalgam; for example, dentists place almost 25% more mercury
fillings in American Indian patients than in white patients. In his
testimony before Congress, former Virginia state NAACP president Emmitt
Carlton described this injustice as "choice for the rich, mercury for
the poor."
Excerpt of http://www.toxicteeth.org/
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