Twenty years of mercury monitoring in dental surgeries

British Dental Journal

Volumn 192, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 437-441

  Brown, D ^a   Sherriff, M ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTAL ALLOY; MERCURY; PALLADIUM; PALLADIUM CHLORIDE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DENTAL FACILITY; DENTAL SURGERY; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VOLATILIZATION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DENTAL AMALGAM; DENTAL OFFICES; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MERCURY; PALLADIUM; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES; VENTILATION; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0037181893     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4801395     Document Type: Article

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