11.   The blow could have loosened dental fillings.

12.   The federal agency cited the threat that people would overreact by needlessly spending billions of dollars to have their dental fillings replaced by more expensive materials.

13.   In the lawsuit, looted assets include dental fillings and other gold taken from Jews by the Nazis, resmelted and sold to the private banks.

14.   Officials recently confirmed the existence of the valuables -- including rings, jewels, watches and gold dental fillings -- in a Treasury Ministry storeroom in Rome.

15.   The families of nine autistic children claim in lawsuits that mercury exposure from dental fillings, vaccine preservatives and power plants caused or worsened the disability.

16.   The program conjectured that the gold might have come from dental fillings that the Nazis had taken from concentration camp victims and sold to the Swiss.

17.   The report said it was unlikely that the high mercury levels came from mining methods, suggesting it came from the dental fillings of Holocaust victims.

18.   The so-called nonmonetary gold would be in the form of melted-down wedding rings, dental fillings and other items.

19.   The suits blame the American Dental Association and Georgia Dental Association for endorsing amalgams, a type of dental filling containing mercury.

20.   No evidence was found that Swiss banks were aware that some of the Nazi gold came from jewerly, dental fillings and other possessions of Holocaust victims.