Human exposure to mercury and silver released from dental amalgam restorations

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 384-394

  Skare, Ingvar ^a   Engqvist, A ^a  

^a Natl Bd of Occup Safety and Hlth   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; MERCURY; SILVER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DENTISTRY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TOOTH FILLING; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DENTAL AMALGAM; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; SILVER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 0028077237     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039896.1994.9954991     Document Type: Article

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