The future of dental amalgam: A review of the literature Part 6: Possible harmful effects of mercury from dental amalgam

British Dental Journal

Volumn 182, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 455-459

  Eley, B M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTAL ALLOY; MERCURY;

BACTERIUM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DENTAL SURGERY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTESTINE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH; MOUTH DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; BACTERIA; DENTAL AMALGAM; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTESTINES; KIDNEY DISEASES; LICHENOID ERUPTIONS; MERCURY; MOUTH; MOUTH DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 0031589344     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4809412     Document Type: Review

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