Symptoms of intoxication in dentists associated with exposure to low levels of mercury

Industrial Health

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-254

  Neghab, Masoud ^a   Choobineh, Alireza ^b   Zadeh, Jafar Hassan ^a   Ghaderi, Ebrahim ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Amalgam filling; Dentists; Intoxication symptoms; Mercury; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

DENTAL ALLOY;

ADULT; AGE; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTIST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MERCURIALISM; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URINE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DENTAL AMALGAM; DENTISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79955507017     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1214     Document Type: Article

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