| Mercury in Dental Amalgam: health, environmental and management aspects |
| S-HR-5 |
Combined platform and poster
(The Conference Organizing Committee has allocated a 2 hour platform session with six 20-minute platform slots for oral presentations to this session. The total number of platform papers should not exceed six.) |
| This session will examine the worldwide use of mercury amalgam in dentistry and present recent findings on the uptake of mercury from dental amalgam in humans and its potential effects on health. The session will also describe the impact and management of amalgam waste, including efforts to reduce the contribution of amalgam waste to environmental mercury contamination. |
Lars Barregard
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,
Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Academy
Göteborg University, Sweden
lars.barregard@amm.gu.se |
P.L. Fan
American Dental Association
Division of Science.
Chicago, IL 60611 USA
fanp@ada.org |
Ulf Lindh
Uppsala University
Department of Oncology
Radiology and Clinical Immunology
Rudbeck Laboratory, SE-751 85
Uppsala, Sweden
Phone +46-18-471 38 36
Fax +46-18-471 38 92
Ulf.Lindh@bms.uu.se |
Gerd Sällsten
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Academy
Göteborg University, Sweden.
PB 414, SE-405 30
Göteborg, Sweden
Phone +46 31 773 28 97
gerd.sallsten@amm.gu.se |