Are more nickel ions accumulated in the hair of fixed orthodontic patients?

• Egile Nagusiak: Mostafa Abtahi (Egilea), Arezoo Jahanbin (Egilea), Masoud Yaghoubi (Egilea), Habibollah Esmaily (Egilea), Hanieh Zare (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Background and Objectives : All elements existing in orthodontic alloys can be released to the oral cavity as corrosion products; therefore, they can accumulate in body tissues after systemic absorption. Among body tissues that can be evaluated for systemic absorption of nickel, in this study we use...