{"id":2000,"date":"2017-09-25T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esdo.org\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2017-09-25T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:03:13","slug":"president-of-world-alliance-for-mercury-free-dentistry-made-an-enthusiastic-statement-in-cop1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/president-of-world-alliance-for-mercury-free-dentistry-made-an-enthusiastic-statement-in-cop1\/","title":{"rendered":"President of World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry made an Enthusiastic Statement in COP1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, Mr. Charlie Brown has made an enthusiastic statement in the second day of the first meeting of the Conference of the parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1) on 24 September, 2017. The Statement is:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statement of World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>COP1, Minamata Convention on Mercury, 24.9.17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you Mr.President.<\/p>\n<p>Today we convene the historic Minamata Convention, where we shall make mercury history.<\/p>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 And we shall make dental amalgam history.<\/p>\n<p>The World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry salutes the European Union, which has phased out amalgam for children, and phased out amalgam for pregnant women and for breastfeeding women.<\/p>\n<p>The World Alliance salutes the work of the Africa region and of the African governments in the march toward mercury-free dentistry. The Abuja Declaration for Mercury-Free Dentistry for Africa sets the pace.\u00a0 The government of Mauritius ended amalgam use for children.\u00a0 Dental schools from Cote d\u2019Ivoire and Nigeria across to Tanzania and Kenya have made major curriculum shifts to educate this generation of dentists.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dental mercury is a major source of black-market mercury in illegal gold mining. If we end dental amalgam, we have a 2-fold gain.<\/p>\n<p>The World Alliance salutes the nations across Asia for their pioneering work for mercury-free dentistry.\u00a0 The Dental Council of India ended the amalgam proficiency requirement, freeing up dental schools to be entirely mercury-free.\u00a0 In China, a multi-stakeholder conference was held involving the government of China and civil societies for the road map for mercury-free dentistry . . .Similar national stakeholder conferences were held in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and Vietnam.\u00a0 The Dhaka Declaration for Mercury-Free Dentistry for Asia shows the commitment of civil society to move to this goal.<\/p>\n<p>The phase-out of amalgam for children is the key phase down step:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Milk teeth are less complex, longevity is not a factor, and there\u2019s the obvious rule of precaution when implanting a gram of mercury centimeters from a child\u2019s developing brain.<\/li>\n<li>It means the emergence of atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) \u2013 even in the villages that lack electricity. As the WHO report Future Use of Materials for Dental Restoration says: \u201cAlternative restorative materials of sufficient quality are available for use\u201d for the milk teeth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you return to your home nations, please do as the European Union as done: phase out amalgam for children now.\u00a0 For one simple reason:\u00a0 The children of your nation are equally important to the children of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, Mr. Charlie Brown has made an enthusiastic statement in the second day of the first meeting of the Conference of the parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1) on 24 September, 2017. The Statement is: &nbsp; &nbsp; Statement of World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry COP1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}