Informational Links
Abstract on Mercury Vapor in the Dental School Environment: Note Study shows mercury vapor levels were several times higher then the suggested OSHA permissible exposure limit of 100mg/cubic meter.
BDJ - A Pilot Study of BioAerosol Reduction Using an Air Cleaning System During Dental Procedures
CDC Guidelines - infection control in Dental Health Care Settings, PDF pgs. 34 & 35
CDC/Niosh - Smoke Plume Health Hazards
CDC Report - Cluster of Dental Professionals Diagnosed with Lung Disease
CDC report on COPD - COPD concerns in the dental profession
CJIC - Important Role for Standalone Indoor Air Purification Systems
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journel of the COPD Foundation
Dental Economics - Protecting Dental Staff from the Most Hazardous Job in America
Dental Town - Peer to Peer Dentistry Related Message Board
Dental Wellness 4U - Mercury Free Dentists Listing
Dentistry's Aerosols: Giving the Dangerous Bugs the Attention they Deserve
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences - Quantitative Microbial Monitoring in a Dental Office
Dept. of Paedontics - Dental Bioaerosols as an Occupational Hazard in a Dentist's Workplace
EPA Dental Amalgam Info - Explains Dental Amalgam
Harvard Business Review - Stale Office Air is Making you Less Productive
Health Risks - Health risks associated with exposure to surgical smoke for surgeons and operation room personnel
HEPA Filters for Sars-CoV-2 (Covid-19 Coronavirus)
IAOMT - International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
IAOMT.org SMART (Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique) guidelines useful for Virus Protection too
International Journal of Science and Research - Dental Aerosols: A Silent Hazard in Dentistry
Ionic Colloidal Silver - natural antibiotics
JADA - Aerosols and Splatter in Dentistry
Janet Stopka D.D.S. shares her Mercury toxicity story with the FDA
Jessica Saepoff D.D.S explains how and why she uses the Mercury Dental Vacuum
JCDA - Risk of Bacterial Transmission in Dental Practice
JSS Dental College & Hospital - Aerosols in Dental Practice - A Neglected Infectious Vector
NIOSH Publications - Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica
New Directions Dentistry - Offers the only DVD of its kind to dentists on how to make a dental practice occupationally mercury safe.
Ontario Dentist - Cleaner Air in the Dental Office
Oral Health - In-Office Air Quality Contamination: What you Don't Know WILL harm you
Oral Health and Dental Management - Airborne Microbial Contamination in Dental Practices
Queen of Dental Hygine - Blog
RDH - Dental Germaphobics: When Patients are Not "Crazy"
Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique (SMART)
Shahid Beheshti - University of Medical Sciences - Arborne Microbial Contamination of Dental Units
University of Amsterdam - A Scoping Review on Bio-Aerosols in Healthcare and the Dental Environment
University of Athens - Indoor Air Quality in a Dental Practice
World Economic Forum - Which Jobs are Most Damaging to your Health - Dental