The recent proposed ban on mercury has industrialists worrying and trying their darndest to figure out new ways to carry on with their particular industry, and the scampering is especially hard amongst dental industrialists. This is because dentists and dental technicians use more mercury than almost all other industries, bar a few (metallurgy comes to mind). In some cases, the mercury used can be replaced with other metals or their alloys, and sometimes it cannot. The question is, will orthodontics be affected?