Relationship between mercury levels in blood and urine and complaints of chronic mercury toxicity from amalgam restorations

British Dental Journal

Volumn 208, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Eyeson, J ^a   House, I ^b   Yang, Y H ^c   Warnakulasuriya, K A A S ^d,e  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine and Dentistry   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTAL ALLOY; MERCURY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL SURGERY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MERCURIALISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATCH TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMATITIS; URINE;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DENTAL AMALGAM; DENTAL AUDIT; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LICHEN PLANUS, ORAL; LICHENOID ERUPTIONS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATCH TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STOMATITIS;

EID: 77949850474     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: 17417503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.181     Document Type: Article

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