What About the Safety of Filling Materials? Patient health and the safety of dental treatments are the rimary goals of California’s dental professionals and theDental Board of California. The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide you with information concerning the risks and benefitsof all the dental materials used in the restoration (filling) of teeth. The Dental Board of California is required by law* to make this dental materials fact sheet available to every licensed dentist in the state of California. Your dentist, in turn, mustprovide this fact sheet to every new patient and all patients of record only once before beginning any dental filling procedure. As the patient or parent/guardian, you are strongly encouraged to discuss with your dentist the facts presented concerning thefilling materials being considered for your particular treatment.

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY We respect our legal obligation to keep health information that identifies you private. We are obligated by law to give you notice of our privacy practices. This Notice describes how we protect your health information and what rights you have regarding it.