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ABSTRACT
Concern has existed for almost 10 years regarding the safety and efficacy of formaldehyde-based medicaments like formocresol in dentistry. Formocresol has been shown to be therapeutically outdated for decades. While the use of formocresol around the world continues to drop, it still is utilized in alarmingly high rates, an age-old bias that is unsubstantiated by overall academic research. Formaldehyde remains a genotoxic and carcinogenic problem worldwide. The most recent articles are discussed in light of the need to abandon formocresol.
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Bradley Lewis
Bradley Lewis, DDS, is the former postdoctoral endodontic coordinator at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York; an attending at Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery; and an associate at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.