Levels of mercury in fish-eating children, with and without amalgam restoration

• Main Authors: Vinayak Padmakumar (Author), Kavya Premkala Raveendran (Author), Anshad Mohamed Abdulla (Author), Sivadas Ganapathy (Author), Shan Sainudeen (Author), V S Nasim (Author), Vaishnavi Vedam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Mercury is a naturally occurring metal that exists in three forms: elemental (metallic), inorganic, and organic mercury. Amalgam, which is an alloy of inorganic mercury, is used as a restorative material in dentistry. Organic mercury gets ingested in the body mainly by the consumption of...