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Description
| Title: | Characteristics and Treatment of the Dental Waste Water Stream |
| Author(s): | Cailas, Michael D.; Drummond, James L.; Tung-Yi, Wu; Ovsey, Victor G. |
| Contributor(s): | Hafermann, Julie |
| Subject(s): | Dental materials -- Environmental aspects
Dentistry -- Pollution prevention Dentistry -- Source reduction (Waste management) Mercury -- Environmental aspects Medical wastes -- Environmental aspects Water -- Pollution Dental offices -- Waste disposal Medical wastes -- Illinois Hazardous wastes -- Illinois |
| Abstract: | Dental amalgam consists of approximately equal parts mixture of metallic mercury and an alloy powder consisting of silver, tin, copper and zinc. Amalgam has been used extensively as a tooth filling material, accounting for 75% of posterior restorations. The waste material from dental offices generated during restorative dental procedures contains amalgam. The uncontrolled discharge of this waste into the sewer system from a large number of dental units (i.e. dental clinics), will increase the mercury load to treatment facilities and could eventually contribute higher potential mercury exposure as well. The main objective of this project was to characterize the properties of the dental waste (DW) stream. |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| Publisher: | Champaign, IL : Illinois Waste Management and Research Center |
| Series/Report: | RR Series (Waste Management and Research Center) ; 097 |
| Genre: | Technical Report |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2274 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-09-12 |
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RR Series - Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
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