Assessment of blood mercury levels in practicing Turkish clinicians, dental students, and dental nurses

Quintessence International

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages e173-e178

  Paksoy, Candan S ^a   Görgün, Sebahat ^a   Nalçacı, Rana ^a   Yagbasan, Ayse ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amalgam; Blood concentration; Mercury; Toxication

Indexed keywords

DENTAL ALLOY; MERCURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DENTAL ASSISTANT; DENTAL STUDENT; DENTIST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DENTAL AMALGAM; DENTAL AUXILIARIES; DENTISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STUDENTS, DENTAL; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749130632     PISSN: 00336572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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