Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
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Identifying occupational and nonoccupational exposure to mercury in dental personnel Hamid Shirkhanloo, Mohammad Ali Fallah Mehrjerdi & Hamid Hassani To cite this article: Hamid Shirkhanloo, Mohammad Ali Fallah Mehrjerdi & Hamid Hassani (2014): Identifying occupational and nonoccupational exposure to mercury in dental personnel, Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2014.964391 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19338244.2014.964391
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Date: 15 December 2016, At: 02:22
ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19338244.2014.964391
Identifying occupational and nonoccupational exposure to mercury in dental personnel Hamid Shirkhanlooa, Mohammad Ali Fallah Mehrjerdib, and Hamid Hassania,c a Iranian Petroleum Industry Occupational and Environmental Health Research Center (IPIOEHRC), Iranian Petroleum Industry Health Research Institute (IPIHRI), Tehran, Iran; bPetroleum Industry Health Organization (PIHO), Tehran, Iran; cDepartment of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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The objective of this study was to investigate the occupational and nonoccupational exposure to mercury (Hg) vapor in dental personnel by examining the relationships between blood mercury, urine mercury, and their ratio with air mercury. The method was performed on 50 occupational exposed and 50 unexposed controls (25 men and 25 women). The mercury concentrations in air and human biological samples were determined based on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) method and standard method (SM) by a new mode of liquid-phase microextraction, respectively. The mean mercury concentrations in urine (mg Hg0/g creatinine) and blood were significantly higher than control group, respectively (19.41 § 5.18 vs 2.15 § 0.07 mg/g and 16.40 § 4.97 vs 2.50 § 0.02 mg/L) (p
ISSN: 1933-8244 (Print) 2154-4700 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/vaeh20
Identifying occupational and nonoccupational exposure to mercury in dental personnel Hamid Shirkhanloo, Mohammad Ali Fallah Mehrjerdi & Hamid Hassani To cite this article: Hamid Shirkhanloo, Mohammad Ali Fallah Mehrjerdi & Hamid Hassani (2014): Identifying occupational and nonoccupational exposure to mercury in dental personnel, Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2014.964391 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19338244.2014.964391
Accepted author version posted online: 25 Sep 2014. Published online: 12 Dec 2016. Submit your article to this journal
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Date: 15 December 2016, At: 02:22
ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19338244.2014.964391
Identifying occupational and nonoccupational exposure to mercury in dental personnel Hamid Shirkhanlooa, Mohammad Ali Fallah Mehrjerdib, and Hamid Hassania,c a Iranian Petroleum Industry Occupational and Environmental Health Research Center (IPIOEHRC), Iranian Petroleum Industry Health Research Institute (IPIHRI), Tehran, Iran; bPetroleum Industry Health Organization (PIHO), Tehran, Iran; cDepartment of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
ABSTRACT
ARTICLE HISTORY
The objective of this study was to investigate the occupational and nonoccupational exposure to mercury (Hg) vapor in dental personnel by examining the relationships between blood mercury, urine mercury, and their ratio with air mercury. The method was performed on 50 occupational exposed and 50 unexposed controls (25 men and 25 women). The mercury concentrations in air and human biological samples were determined based on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) method and standard method (SM) by a new mode of liquid-phase microextraction, respectively. The mean mercury concentrations in urine (mg Hg0/g creatinine) and blood were significantly higher than control group, respectively (19.41 § 5.18 vs 2.15 § 0.07 mg/g and 16.40 § 4.97 vs 2.50 § 0.02 mg/L) (p
