Risk of respiratory exposure of dental personnel to amalgam alternatives

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-39

  Nayebzadeh, Ataollah ^a   Stangel, Ivan ^b   Dufresne, Andre ^a  

^a Biostatist Occup Hlth A ^*  (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composite; Dentists; Gallium alloys; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; DENTAL ALLOY; GALLIUM; GLASS IONOMER; RESIN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DENTIST; EYE IRRITATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; MUTAGENICITY; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICOSIS; SKIN IRRITATION;

DENTAL AMALGAM; DENTAL STAFF; GALLIUM; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0033967994     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00463-5     Document Type: Article

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