Mary Bauer
Mary's latest book Mercury, Miko, and Me: How Holistic Dentistry Healed My Daughter and Saved My Life came out in 2019. Mary has been an educator for forty-three years. She is the co-author of Spelling Mastery Levels A and B, rev. 2007, McGraw-Hill. In 2000, she cofounded Ridgeline Montessori Public Charter School. She has also been an advocate for safer products and practices in schools, serving on her local district’s indoor and outdoor environmental quality committees. The policies developed there contributed to Oregon’s 2009 Integrated Pest Management in Schools legislation.
Works

Mercury, Miko, and Me: How Holistic Dentistry Healed My Daughter and saved My Life
Mercury, Miko, and Me: How Holistic Dentistry Healed My Daughter and Saved My Life is an intimate account of the author's journey to understand and reverse learning and behavioral challenges in her daughter and symptoms of lupus, heart disease, and chronic fatigue in herself by removing her “silver” fillings. It does for mercury amalgams what Silent Spring by Rachel Carson did for pesticides. Like Kate Moore's Radium Girls, it shows how a toxic element, which began as the darling of the medical community, harmed untold numbers of patients.
Unlike that tragic chapter in American history, the author found a way to help her family heal.
Bauer is a highly engaging storyteller, which makes her memoir an enjoyable read…she presents her arguments powerfully: "How could putting the second most dangerous element on earth into our teeth be beneficial?-Kirkus Review