Biological dentistry’s argument about materials has largely been won. The EU banned dental amalgam from January 2025, and the Minamata Convention’s sixth conference agreed a global phase-out by 2034. Ceramic implants entered mainstream consensus in 2023, when the International Team for Implantology put their five-year survival at 97.2%, comparable to titanium. Practitioners treated as cranks…
A biological dentist and a conventional dentist hold the same licence. In the UK both are registered with the General Dental Council, both took the same degree, and neither can practise without the other's qualification. There is no separate register, and no recognised specialty.
What differs is everything downstream: which materials go in the mouth,…



