Chewing releases mercury from fillings.

Author: Gay DD, Cox RD, Reinhardt JW.

Source: Lancet.

Year: 1979

Comment:

The researchers of this article found that levels of mercury vapor from dental amalgam were increased by chewing.

Abstract / Excerpt:

“While examining the exposure of dental patients to elemental mercury via dental restorations,³ we noticed that chewing, after teeth had been filled with a silver-mercury amalgam, was accompanied by an increase in the amount of elemental mercury breathed out by the patient.”

Citation:

Gay DD, Cox RD, Reinhardt JW. Chewing releases mercury from fillings. Lancet. 1979; 313(8123):985-6.