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Gastrointestinal and in vitro release of copper, cadmium, indium, mercury and zinc from conventional and copper‐rich amalgams
Author(s) -
BRUNE DAG,
GJERDET NILS,
PAULSEN GUNNAR
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
european journal of oral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.802
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1600-0722
pISSN - 0909-8836
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0722.1983.tb00778.x
Subject(s) - copper , mercury (programming language) , zinc , cadmium , indium , chemistry , metallurgy , materials science , computer science , programming language
– Particles of a conventional lathe‐cut, a spherical non‐gamma 2 and a copper amalgam have been gastrointestinally administered to rats for the purpose of evaluation of the dissolution resistance. The animals were sacrificed after 20 hrs. The contents of copper, cadmium, indium, mercury and zinc in kidney, liver, lung or blood were measured using nuclear tracer techniques. From a copper amalgam an extreme release of copper was demonstrated. This study simulates the clinical condition of elemental release from swallowed amalgam particles after amalgam insertion or after removal of old amalgam fillings. Specimens of the same types of amalgams were also exposed to artificial saliva for a period of 10 days. The amounts of copper and mercury released were measured with flame and flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry respectively. The levels of copper and mercury released from the copper amalgam were approximately 50 times those of the two other amalgam types studied.