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SLOVak TECHNIcal UNIVERsity BRATISLAVa Faculty of food and chemical technology. AMALGAM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO HUMAN SOCIETY Creator : Martina Repčíková. INTRODUCTION. Dental amalgam filling Composition Materials Trituration Relationship to human society. Amalgam. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
AMALGAM AND ITS
RELATIONSHIP TO HUMAN SOCIETY
Creator: Martina Repčíková
1. Dental amalgam filling
2. Composition Materials Trituration
3. Relationship to human society
an excellent and versatile restorative material
known as the "silver filling" or the silver-mercury filling
material for 160 years
Amalgam is made up of
Reduced-gamma-2 phase Mercury White filling with composit bonding
Preference
Aluminium foil makes contact with some amalgam fillings
saliva in the mouth can act as an electrolyte
can generate small electrical currents feel through the nerves in the tooth
as electrical "jolts" or shocks = painfull
feel “metal taste" in your mouth
Composition of amalgam
Trituration
Relationship to human society
http://dentistry.about.com/od/commondentalprocedure1/i/choosefillings_2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_(chemistry)
http://www.stanford.edu/~bcalhoun/amalgam.htm
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