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[Mercury release of silver amalgam fillings in vitro]
E Hellwig1, V Stachniss, H Duschner
1Med. Zentrums für Zahn-, Mund und Kieferheilkunde der Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Deutsche Zahnarztliche Zeitschrift
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
In vitro mercury release from silver amalgam fillings was analyzed by ICP (Inductively-coupled-plasma-atomic-emission-spectroscopy). Within 14 days 63.2 micrograms Hg and 41.5 micrograms Hg respectively, were released from unfinished and finished amalgam fillings (n = 5). The amounts of mercury found in this study were several times higher compared with the results from other in vitro-studies.