MR: No, it's an amalgam, it's really smooth.
Regarding the individuals without dental amalgam fillings, it is possible that this patient group may have had amalgam fillings earlier in their life, and before 2001, removed them or replaced them with other dental materials, such as gold alloys or ceramics.
It is tempting to suppose that some early material may be preserved amidst later material, but the text is such an amalgam that it is in practice impossible to identify securely any early material (Burkert 1961, 26; Laks 2014, 375).
However, regarding amalgam fillings it is known that they form a potential permanent source of organic-bonded mercury (mainly methyl mercury) which possesses toxic characteristics and in whose formation bacteria of the oral cavity (streptococci) are involved [ 71].
Mercury makes up about half of an amalgam filling, where it is mixed with silver and small amounts of copper and tin.
Klezmer, these days, is a term that covers a vast range of styles, but at its heart it is an amalgam of Eastern European Jewish dance music with improvisatory elements that resemble those of jazz.
If The Book of Scotlands reads at times like a knowing amalgam of Calvino, Donald Barthelme and Georges Perec, it is also not wholly removed from the whimsical world of Ivor Cutler; one can quite imagine a future in which Momus grows older and odder and more essential in the same way.
However, the percentage of total daily mercury excretion by the urine route can range from 10%to40%0%, depending on the amalgam filling exposure, and it is unclear how bio-detoxification affects this [ 61].
Its binomial scientific name was first used by Erxleben in 1777; it is an amalgam of Pallas' generic designation (1766) and Linnaeus' specific conferral (1758).
