[Prospective study on the mercury uptake of dental students. Part 1: Increase in mercury excretion during simulated training].
It was the goal of this study performed in two subsequent technical courses of operative dentistry to find out if the first "professional" contact of dental students with amalgam resulted in a increased mercury excretion. At six different points in time urine analyses using (flame-free) cold vapor nuclear absorption spectroscopy were performed. At the first measurement, prior to working with amalgam, the median values were at 0.53 micrograms Hg/g creatinine (summer term 88) and 1.46 micrograms Hg/g creatinine (winter term 88/89). At the end of the course the median values have increased to 2.49 micrograms Hg/g creatinine (summer term 88) and 2.56 micrograms Hg/g creatinine (winter term 88/89). In the subsequent vacations the Hg values in the students' urine clearly decreased.
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D000328:Adult; D003723:Dental Amalgam / Q000633:toxicity*; D003814:Dentistry, Operative / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D008628:Mercury / Q000652:urine*; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic; D013335:Students, Dental
D003723:Dental Amalgam; D008628:Mercury
Eine prospektive Untersuchungen über die Quecksilberbelastung von Zahnmedizinstudenten. Teil 1: Anstieg der Hg-Ausscheidung im Verlauf des Phantomkurses.