Mercury from dental amalgam: exposure and risk assessment.

نویسنده

  • Stephen M Koral
چکیده

There has long been an undercurrent within the dental profession of anti-amalgam sentiment, a "mercury-free" movement. To assess whether anything is or is not scientifically wrong with amalgam, one must look to the vast literature on exposure, toxicology, and risk assessment of mercury. The subject of risk assessment goes straight to the heart of the debate over whether a malgam is safe, or not, for unrestricted use in dentistry in the population at large.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Compendium of continuing education in dentistry

دوره 34 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013