Exhaled mercury following removal and insertion of amalgam restorations.
Exhaled mercury following removal and insertion of amalgam restorations.
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移除和插入汞合金修复体后呼出的汞。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-3913(83)90391-8
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发表时间:
1983
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Gay,DD
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作者:
Reinhardt,JW;Boyer,DB;Svare,CW;Frank,CW;Cox,RD;Gay,DD
P atient 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. The possibility of mercury absorption from sources other than dental amalgam, such as mercurial antiseptics and germicides, was discussed. The study concluded that dental amalgams do not appear to be an important source of mercury absorption and excretion.In another study Frykholm2 used a radioisotope of mercury in placing four or five amalgam restorations in each of five patients. The urinary excretion of radioactive mercury gradually increased for each individual and reached an average peak of 2.5 pg/liter on the fifth day following treatment. In each case the level then dropped to zero by the seventh or eighth day, at which time the radioactive amalgams were removed to avoid further exposure. On the day following removal, urinary levels of mercury rose to 5 pg/liter and then dropped to zero in 2 days. Some investigators have found urinary excretion of mercury to be quite irregular and therefore an unreliable measure of quantity absorbed. Following exposure there is an early rapid phase of urinary excretion followed by a slower phase that may account for more