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Dental Amalgam Expert Panel

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(1)  Klaassen, C.D. "Heavy Metals and Heavy-Metal Antagonists - Mercury" in Goodman and Gilman's: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Ninth Edition, 1996, pp.1654-1659.
(2)  Clarkson, T.W. (2002) The three modern faces of mercury. Environ Health Perspect.110 Suppl 1:11-23. PMID: 11834460
(3)  US Public Health Service - "Dental Amalgam & Alternative Restorative Materials-1997"
(4)  Maths Berlin - "Mercury in Dental Filling Materials - An Updated Risk Analysis in Environmental Medical Terms"
(5)  International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology - "The Scientific Case Against Amalgam"
(6)  Richardson, G.M. and Allan, M (1996) A Monte Carlo Assessment of Mercury Exposure and Risks from Dental Amalgam. Hum. Ecol. Risk Assess. 2:709-761.
(7)  National Research Council (2000) Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C.
Chapters sent:
     Executive Summary (pp 1-12)
     Chapter 1: Introduction (pp 13-30)
     Chapter 2: Chemistry, Exposure, Toxicokinetics, and Toxicodynamics (pp 31-71)
(8)  Clarkson, T.W., Friberg, L., Hursh, J.B., and Nylander, M. "The prediction of intake of mercury vapor from amalgams" in Biological Monitoring of Toxic Metals, Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1988, pp 247-264.
(9 ) "Mercury" in Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003, pp 17-19.
(10)  Clarkson TW, Magos L, Myers GJ. (2003) The toxicology of mercury--current exposures and clinical manifestations. N. Engl. J. Med. 349:1731-7. PMID: 14585942 (sent with rebuttals to this article written by Bioprobe, Inc. and Dr. Chester Yokoyama that were submitted to LSRO by Freya Koss of Consumers for Dental Choice)
(11) Submissions to the Panel received from interested stakeholders at the December 12, 2003 meeting:
      Submissions from Sean Delgado, Merge Medicine

Submissions from Richard D. Fischer, D.D.S, F.A.G.D., International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology

Submissions from Kathryn Chilcote, D.M.A., West Chester University

Submissions from Carol J. Ward, Dental Amalgam Mercury Syndrome, Inc.

Submissions from Freya Koss, Consumers for Dental Choice

Submissions from Anne Ferreira

Submissions from Charles Brown, Esq., Consumers for Dental Choice

Submissions from RoseMary Volpe

Paper from Boyd Haley, Ph.D.:

      Kozono Y., Moore B.K., Phillips R.W., and Swartz M.L. (1982) Dissolution of amalgam in saline solution. J. Biomed. Mater. Res.16:767-74. PMID: 7174706


Papers from Richard D. Fischer, D.D.S.:

      Echeverria D., Heyer N.J., Martin M.D., Naleway C.A., Woods J.S., and Bittner A.C. Jr. (1995) Behavioral effects of low-level exposure to elemental Hg among dentists. Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 17:161-8. PMID: 7760775

Eedy D.J., Burrows D., Clifford T., and Fay A. (1990) Elevated T cell subpopulations in dental students. J. Prosthet. Dent. 63:593-6. PMID: 1971026

Gonzalez-Ramirez D., Maiorino R.M., Zuniga-Charles M., Xu Z., Hurlbut K.M., Junco-Munoz P., Aposhian M.M., Dart R.C., Diaz Gama J.H., Echeverria D., Woods J.S., and Aposhian, H.V. (1995) Sodium 2,3-dimercaptopropane-1-sulfonate challenge test for mercury in humans: II. Urinary mercury, porphyrins and neurobehavioral changes of dental workers in Monterrey, Mexico. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 272:264-74. PMID: 7815341

Miller E.G., Perry W.L., and Wagner M.J. (1987) Prevalence of mercury hypersensitivity in dental students. J. Prosthet. Dent. 58:235-7. PMID: 2957496

Ngim C.H., Foo S.C., Boey K.W., and Jeyaratnam J. (1992) Chronic neurobehavioural effects of elemental mercury in dentists. Br. J. Ind. Med. 49:782-90. PMID: 1463679

Rowland A.S., Baird D.D., Weinberg C.R., Shore D.L., Shy C.M., and Wilcox A.J. (1994) The effect of occupational exposure to mercury vapour on the fertility of female dental assistants. Occup. Environ. Med. 51:28-34. PMID: 8124459

Sikorski R., Juszkiewicz T., Paszkowski T., and Szprengier-Juszkiewicz T. (1987) Women in dental surgeries: reproductive hazards in occupational exposure to metallic mercury. Int. Arch. Occup. Environ. Health. 59:551-7. PMID: 3679554