Dr. Katie To explains why so many dental school professors developed tremors: decades of handling liquid mercury with bare hands. Chronic mercury vapor exposure causes neurological damage that's been largely ignored in dental education, despite clear risks to current practitioners.
picture like this in our practice to show you, because a lot of the health effects by long-term exposure to mercury vapor, like from eating, chewing, to the short-term exposure, is a lot of overlapping. I remember in dental school, a lot of my professors have tremors. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. They in their 60s, why do they have so many professors get tremors? And I realized that in their day and age, they're using a lot of mercury. And they using their fingers, they mixing with mercury liquid, like they don't even have any protections. And a lot of these long-term exposures are really damaging, but people never talk about it.
