Biomonitoring of titanium, mercury, platinum, rhodium and palladium in dental health care workers

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 564-566

  Iavicoli, Ivo ^a,b   Carelli, Giovanni ^a   Lajolo, Carlo ^a   Raffaelli, Luca ^a   Marinaccio, Alessandro ^c   Giuliani, Michele ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Clinica del Lavoro L Devoto   (Italy)

^c ISPESL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dental health care workers; Mercury; Platinum; Rhodium; Titanium

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RHODIUM; TITANIUM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUTH EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; TOOTH FILLING; TOOTH PROSTHESIS; URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DENTAL STAFF; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RHODIUM; TITANIUM; TRANSITION ELEMENTS;

EID: 11044236154     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqh109     Document Type: Article

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