Monday, March 25, 2019

Dentists are considered to have higher occupational exposure to mercury than most health professionals. (WHO, 1991)

https://www.uml.edu/docs/Occupational%20Exposure%20to%20Elemental%20Mercury%20in%20Dentistry_tcm18-232339.pdf
Occupational Exposure to Elemental Mercury in Dentistry

Dentists are considered to have higher occupational exposure to mercury than most health professionals. (WHO, 1991)  


5. POTENTIAL FOR HUMAN EXPOSURE 

Dietary intake is the most important source of nonoccupational exposure to mercury, with fish and other seafood products being the dominant source of mercury in the diet. Most of the mercury consumed in fish or other seafood is the highly absorbable methylmercury form. 
Intake of elemental mercury from dental amalgams is another major contributing source to the total mercury body burden in humans in the general population (WHO 1990, 1991). 

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