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Dental amalgam and human health
International Dental Journal, 2003 The use of dental amalgam as a restorative material has long been a contentious issue because of its elemental mercury component. While microleakage of mercury from amalgam has been conclusively confirmed over the past 30 years intensive research has failed to identify deleterious health outcomes. Mercury, as with other metals entering the body tissues,
H K, Yip, D K C, Li, D C Y, Yau
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Recovery of silver residues from dental amalgam [PDF]
, 2010 Dental amalgam residues are probably the most important chemical residues generated from clinical dental practice because of the presence of heavy metals among its constituents, mainly mercury and silver.
BUZALAF, Marília Afonso Rabelo +5 more
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Systematic Reviews Comparing Direct and Indirect Restorations: An Umbrella Review That Examines Restoration Type and Confidence in Results. [PDF]
Clin Exp Dent ResABSTRACT Objectives There are two technologies for restoring individual structurally defective teeth. A direct restoration is applied chairside in one appointment, while an indirect restoration needs to be lab‐produced before application. This umbrella review of previous English systematic reviews was conducted to determine if there was any difference ...
Kimmel M, Faggion CM.
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Blood Mercury Level and Its Determinants among Dental Practitioners in Hamadan, Iran [PDF]
Frontiers in Dentistry, 2010 Objective: Exposure to mercury can occur in occupational and environmental settings.During clinical work with dental amalgam, the dental personnel are exposed to both metallic mercury and mercury vapor.
Assary, MJ. +4 more
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Awareness about dental amalgam among Turkish dentists and patients: a questionnaire and search engine based cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Int Dent J, 2020 Objectives There has been considerable controversy concerning the health risks and benefits of using mercury-containing amalgam. This study aimed to evaluate the Turkish dentists’ and patients’ preference and opinion about amalgam and to assess Internet ...
Erçin Ö +3 more
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Mercury Contamination from Dental Amalgam. [PDF]
J Health Pollut, 2019 Background Mercury in dental amalgam is a hidden source of global mercury pollution, resulting from the illegal diversion of dental mercury into the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector, to crematoria emissions from the deceased and sewage sludge
Tibau AV, Grube BD.
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Rethinking the Dental Amalgam Dilemma: An Integrated Toxicological Approach. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019 Mercury (Hg) has been identified as one of the most toxic nonradioactive materials known to man. Although mercury is a naturally occurring element, anthropogenic mercury is now a major worldwide concern and is an international priority toxic pollutant ...
Jirau-Colón H +4 more
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Eur J Dent, 2020 Objective The aim of this study was to assess: (1) the perceptions of dentists in Saudi Arabia concerning the amalgam controversy, (2) their attitude toward the ethical responsibility of patient information, and (3) patients’ knowledge and attitude ...
Al-Nahedh HN, El-Hejazi AA, Habib SR.
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Dental amalgam fillings and mercury vapor safety limits in American adults
Human and Experimental Toxicology, 2022 Objective For more than 150 years, dental amalgam fillings (50% metallic mercury (Hg0) by weight) have been used in American dentistry. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acknowledged that amalgams release Hg vapor that may be harmful to certain ...
D. Geier, M. Geier
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Pathway to mercury-free dentistry: an insight into past, present, and future
European Oral Research, 2023 PurposeThe popularity of dental amalgam arises from its excellent long-term performance, ease of use, and low cost. However, there is a concern about the potential adverse health effects arising from exposure to mercury in amalgam.
Pooja Dudeja +4 more
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