Bangladesh Dental Society (BDS) will ensure mercury free dental treatments for children, and expectant and nursing mothers in the country by this year, said a press release yesterday.

Under a campaign to ban mercury use in dentistry, BDS and Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO in collaboration with World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry and Asian Center for Environmental Health in Bangladesh started inspecting dental chambers on January 28.

Recently, Orient Dental in the capital's Shantinagar got recognition as a mercury-free dental chamber, it added.