Mercury, Miko, and Me: How Holistic Dentistry Healed my Daughter and Saved My Life is an intimate account of Mary Bauer’s journey to understand and reverse multiple health challenges in her daughter and herself by removing her “silver” fillings. Her book does for silver-mercury amalgams what Silent Spring by Rachel Carson did for pesticides. Like Kate Moore's Radium Girls, it shows how a toxic element, which began as the darling of the medical community, harmed untold numbers of patients. Unlike that tragic chapter in American history, the author found a way to help her family heal and, in the process, became a radical mother in a conventional culture.
