Dental Amalgam

OBJECTIVES Antibacterial properties of restorative dental materials such as amalgam and composite resins may improve the… (More)

CONTEXT Dental (silver) amalgam is a widely used restorative material containing 50% elemental mercury that emits small amounts… (More)

CONTEXT No randomized trials have been published that address the concern that inhalation of mercury vapor released by amalgam… (More)

BACKGROUND Whether dental amalgam fillings (containing mercury) are hazardous is a long-standing issue, with few epidemiological… (More)

OBJECTIVES To determine contact allergies in patients with oral lichen planus and to monitor the effect of partial or complete… (More)

BACKGROUND Mercury, or Hg, is a neurotoxin that has been speculated to play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, or… (More)

For Canadians with amalgam-filled teeth, it was estimated that total mercury (Hg) exposure averages: 3.3 µg Hg/day in toddlers… (More)

Data from this project demonstrate a positive correlation between the number of occlusal surfaces of dental amalgam and mercury… (More)

Intra-oral air was analyzed for mercury (Hg) vapor concentration in 46 subjects, 35 of whom had dental amalgam restorations… (More)

Mercury levels in blood and in mouth air before and after chewing were measured in 47 persons with and 14 persons without dental… (More)