1. AMALGAM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO HUMAN SOCIETY Creator: Martina Repčíková

2. 1.Dental amalgam filling 2.Composition  Materials  Trituration 3. Relationship to human society

3.  an excellent and versatile restorative material  known as the "silver filling" or the silver-mercury filling  material for 160 years

4.  Amalgam is made up of

6.  Reduced-gamma-2 phase  Mercury  White filling with composit bonding  Preference

7.  Aluminium foil makes contact with some amalgam fillings Aluminium foil  saliva in the mouth can act as an electrolyte salivaelectrolyte  can generate small electrical currentselectrical currents  feel through the nerves in the tooth as electrical "jolts" or shocks = painfullnerves  feel “metal taste" in your mouth

8.  Composition of amalgam  Trituration  Relationship to human society

9.  http://dentistry.about.com/od/commondent alprocedure1/i/choosefillings_2.htm http://dentistry.about.com/od/commondent alprocedure1/i/choosefillings_2.htm  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_(che mistry) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_(che mistry)  http://www.stanford.edu/~bcalhoun/amalga m.htm http://www.stanford.edu/~bcalhoun/amalga m.htm

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