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Some of the observations on total amalgam surfaces differed between baseline and at one year in the program.
Leistevuo et al. (2001) found a correlation between the total amalgam surfaces and organic mercury presumably as methylmercury (CH3Hg+)—in saliva.
Fourth, instead of using total amalgam surfaces, a more refined and potentially more accurate surrogate for personal exposure to elemental mercury, we used the total number of amalgam restorations.
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Subjects reported elemental mercury exposures as average number of amalgams placed or removed per week (amalgams handled) and total number of dental amalgam restorations in their mouth (personal amalgam).
Mercury exposure was assessed using a) urinary mercury concentration (UHg); b) the total number of amalgam surfaces; and c) the number of occlusal amalgam surfaces.
The mean UHg was 1.7 micro g/g creatinine (range, 0.09-17.8); the mean total number of amalgam surfaces was 10.6 (range, 0-46) and the mean number of occlusal amalgam surfaces was 6.1 (range, 0-19).
Consistent with this background, saliva has high levels of inorganic mercury associated with the total number of amalgam surfaces, which markedly increased during mastication and bruxism.
A usual number of 0 22 fish meals/months and a total number of dental amalgam fillings between 0 15 were reported.
However, Saxe et al [ 53] found no significant correlation between exposure to dental amalgam and total mercury in brain, which may be due to the impact from MeHg in the diet, which not was considered.
The medical literature also contains many other medically unexplained symptoms with similarities to the Gulf War health effect, examples being chronic fatigue syndrome, total allergy syndrome, dental amalgam disease, and sick building syndrome.
Despite this, the total number of personal amalgams was still found to be the most significant predictor for ln-transformed urinary mercury levels.
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