Citation

Foerster K, Breyer-Pfaff U. Versicherungsmedizin 1996; 48(2): 62-64.

Vernacular Title

Amalgam - "Ursache" psychischer Storungen?

Affiliation

Sektion Forensische Psychiatrie, Univ. Tübingen.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Verlag Versucherungswirtschaft)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8659057

Abstract

In a liability lawsuit an expertise had to answer the question whether a mania in the course of an affective psychosis could have been caused by chronic mercury intoxication resulting from dental amalgam fillings. On the basis of current psychiatric and toxicological knowledge, such an association can be disproved. Mercury intake from amalgam fillings does not lead to toxic concentrations in organs or body fluids. Therefore physicians and dentists should avoid alarming patients and thus causing iatrogenic harm.

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