Purchasing, installing and operating dental amalgam separators: Practical issues

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1054-1065

  Mcmanus, Kevin R ^a   Fan, P L ^b  

^a EnviroBusiness   (United States)

^b AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTAL ALLOY; MERCURY;

BIOFILTER; BIOFILTRATION; COMPUTER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARE; DENTIST; DENTISTRY; DEVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PURCHASING; REVIEW; SEDIMENTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUCTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WASTE WATER; ARTICLE; COST; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL FACILITY; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITAL WASTE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; VACUUM; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER POLLUTION;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DENTAL AMALGAM; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL OFFICES; DENTAL WASTE; HUMANS; MAINTENANCE; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; MERCURY; UNITED STATES; VACUUM; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0142124757     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2003.0319     Document Type: Article

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