Mercury from dental amalgam: exposure and risk assessment.

Author: Koral SM.

Source: Compend Contin Educ Dent.

Year: 2013

Comment:

This review examines risk assessment, reference exposure levels, and the future of dental amalgam.

Abstract / Excerpt:

“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 amalgam is safe, or not, for unrestricted use in dentistry in the population at large.”

Citation:

Koral SM. Mercury from dental amalgam: exposure and risk assessment. Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2013; 34(2):138-40.