Adverse effects of amalgam on stomatologists

• Hernández Bridón , Nairobi ^[1] ; Pallerols Mir , Magalys ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana

     Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana

     Cuba

     
• Localización: SAP Health and Policy, ISSN-e 3125-2478, Nº. 1, 2022
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Mercury is used in stomatology for the elaboration of amalgams used in the restoration of teeth treated for caries, as it generates affections on the nervous, renal, immune and sexual systems, as well as behavioural disturbances. Staff working in stomatological practices are chronically exposed to mercury vapour and therefore constitute a population at toxicological risk. For the literature review, 42 bibliographies were consulted in order to describe the adverse effects of dental amalgam on patients and dental personnel.