Exhaled mercury following removal and insertion of amalgam restorations. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry.

Author: Reinhardt JW, Boyer DB, Svare CW, Frank CW, Cox RD, Gay DD.

Source: Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry.

Year: 1983

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Abstract / Excerpt:

Patient exposure to mercury from dental amalgam and restorative procedures has not been studied as extensively as mercury exposure to dental personnel. One. study found that in a group of 114 adults not undergoing dental treatment, only six had measurable mercury in the urine, and one of those persons was using a mercurial diuretic.’This was compared to a group of 24 persons currently undergoing dental treatment. Of that group five showed mercury in the urine before and after treatment.

Citation: Reinhardt JW, Boyer DB, Svare CW, Frank CW, Cox RD, Gay DD. Exhaled mercury following removal and insertion of amalgam restorations. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 1983; 49(5):652-6.