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The Release of Mercury from Dental Amalgam: The Mechanism and in vitro Testing
M. Marek
School of Materials Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245
Dissolution of mercury from the Ag-Hg matrix phase of dental amalgam in distilled water and synthetic saliva, and the mercury evaporation from the solutions, were studied in vitro. The main objectives of the study were to evaluate the factors that affect the results of the mercury release tests, and to consider the possible mechanisms of the release in vivo. Specimens were exposed to the liquids in open or closed bottles, and the changes in the mercury concentration were determined by cold-vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry.
Concentration vs. time tests showed the dissolution rate decreasing with time. Tests involving sequences of short and long exposures with solution changes showed higher average rates for short-term dissolution into the fresh solution than for the longer preceding exposures. The differences were attributed to a stifling effect of the concentration of elemental mercury on the dissolution. It is believed that mercury dissolved mainly in the elemental form and that a continuous increase in the concentration was made possible by oxidation in the solution. In open cells, some of the mercury was lost by evaporation. The analysis showed that the results of mercury dissolution tests depend on many test variables, such as time, solution volume, oxidation and evaporation conditions, etc.
Evaporation, dissolution, and evaporation/dissolution mechanisms of the mercury release in vivo were considered. It was concluded that the dissolution/evaporation model best described the mercury release from dental amalgam restorations.
Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 69, No. 5,
1167-1174 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/00220345900690050901
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