title: [Toxicological implications of amalgams].
abstract: Nowadays hard attacks have been launched by the media against the use of dental silver amalgams. Different diseases are attributed to dental amalgams mostly because of their mercury contents. These claims are based mainly on suppositions without controlled scientific studies. The amount of mercury vapour from amalgam restoration achieves--not even in adverse conditions--the quarter of the daily mercury intake by food. Their total value which might be harmful to health is under the level approved by the WHO thus we don't have to deal with its effect. We can reduce the mercury evolved from amalgam restorations with gamma 2 phase free amalgam and capsule amalgam application.
authors.affiliation: Semmelweis Orvostudomiányi Egyetem, Konzerváló Fogászati Klinika, Budapest.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Herczegh
mesh_terms: D003723:Dental Amalgam / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008452:Maximum Allowable Concentration; D008628:Mercury / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008630:Mercury Poisoning / Q000517:prevention & control; D012834:Silver / Q000009:adverse effects; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D012834:Silver; D003723:Dental Amalgam; D008628:Mercury
vernacular_title: Az amalgámok toxikológiai vonatkozásai.