Exposure to mercury from dental amalgam: actual contribution for risk assessment

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11150/20:10411947 RIV/00179906:_____/20:10411947 RIV/75010330:_____/20:00013019

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21101/cejph.a5965" target="_blank" >10.21101/cejph.a5965</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Exposure to mercury from dental amalgam: actual contribution for risk assessment

Original language description

Objective: Mercury dental amalgam restorations are an important source of chronic exposure to mercury in the whole population and special attention should be paid not only to occupational exposure to mercury during the preparation and administration of amalgam. The authors&apos; report is an up-to-date contribution to the health risk assessment of mercury use in dentistry, namely occupational exposure to mercury in dentists working with dental amalgam and exposure to mercury in persons treated with amalgam dental restorations. Methods: Determination of total mercury in samples of biological material (urine, hair) was performed during 2017 and 2018 in 50 persons by the AAS method using the mercury vapour generation technique at 254.6 nm. Results: Current dental exposures based on the most recent findings do not exceed acceptable risk levels and are below the biological limit of mercury in urine valid for occupationally exposed persons (100 μg.g-1 of creatinine), namely median value was 1.48 (min. &lt; limit of detection (LOD), max. 17.14) μg.g-1 of creatinine (40 persons), total mercury content in hair of dental personnel expressed as median value was 0.340 (min. 0.060, max.1.628) μg.g-1. In controls (10 persons) was total mercury content in urine expressed as median value 0.36 (min. &lt; LOD, max. 2.74) μg.g-1 of creatinine, in hair was median value 0.224 (min. 0.059, max. 0.453) μg.g-1. Conclusions: Authors support opinion that amalgam fillings in the oral cavity are a permanent source of mercury for the body itself.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central European Journal of Public Health

ISSN

1210-7778

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

40-43

UT code for WoS article

000548269300006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85082792301