by dustin@cobalt.graphics | Jul 5, 2026
Most amalgam-separator buying guides sort units into a tidy chart and tell you the cheapest one wins. That’s exactly how practices end up with a unit that looks great on the invoice and becomes their biggest utility-room expense a year later. Choosing well isn’t about...
by dustin@cobalt.graphics | Jul 5, 2026
Dental amalgam has been used to fill teeth for more than 150 years because it’s durable, affordable, and easy to place. It’s also, by weight, roughly 50% elemental mercury, bound together with silver, tin, and copper. In a set filling, that mercury is locked in a...
by dustin@cobalt.graphics | Jul 5, 2026
You know what a separator is and that it’s federally required. This guide opens the box: how the unit actually pulls mercury out of your wastewater, why capacity is the number that quietly decides everything, and what “99% removal efficiency”...
by dustin@cobalt.graphics | Jul 5, 2026
If you run a dental practice, you’ve almost certainly got one of these bolted to a wall in the utility room — and you may have never given it a second thought until a compliance form or a filter bill made you look. So let’s start with the plain version. An amalgam...
