Is MRI contraindicated to people with amalgam dental fillings?
You can have a MRI, even if you have permanent bridges, fillings, braces or dental implants. Fillings and dental bridges will cause no problems what so ever. Braces and some bridges will cause an artifact on head or neck MRIs, which means the images can be distorted. But there is no danger to the patient or the machine. Most everyone has fillings, and if they were excluded from MRIs, we would not be scanning many patients. “Tooth fillings and braces usually are not affected by the magnetic field but they may distort images of the facial area or brain, so the radiologist should be aware of them.” http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.
