Summer in Japan is the season of fireworks! Highlights of the fireworks shows throughout Japan. Ten fireworks shows that have distinguishing features such as a long history, a high level of craftsmanship, or being highly entertaining have been selected from representative fireworks shows throughout Japan and are introduced here.
Most people recognize dental amalgams as silver fillings. Dental amalgam is a mixture of mercury, silver, tin and copper. Mercury, which makes up about 50 percent of the compound, is necessary to bind the metals together to provide a strong, hard, durable filling.
Today, several dental filling materials are available. Teeth can be filled with gold; porcelain; silver amalgam (which consists of mercury mixed with silver, tin, zinc, and copper); or tooth-colored, plastic, and materials called composite resin fillings.