Mercury and the Hazards of Vacuum Cleaning

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Public-health and occupational-health workers have carefully described the hazards to dentists, dental office and laboratory personnel as a result of exposure to mercury.1 2 3 4 Their reports have been based on environmental and physiologic data obtained from normal exposure in dental offices and laboratories.A more pressing hazard resulted from what at first appeared to be a routine incident of vandalism in a dental office in Massachusetts. One or more people had broken into a dental suite and had deliberately splattered 9 kg of metallic mercury on walls and floors of the storerooms, offices, reception areas, operatories and laboratory. The floors in . . .

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