"Dental Amalgam" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An alloy used in restorative dentistry that contains mercury, silver, tin, copper, and possibly zinc.
| Descriptor ID |
D003723
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D25.339.208.291 J01.637.051.339.208.291
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| Concept/Terms |
Dental Amalgam- Dental Amalgam
- Dental Amalgams
- Amalgam, Dental
- Amalgams, Dental
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dental Amalgam" by people in Profiles.
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An evaluation of three commercially available metal artifact reduction methods for CT imaging. Phys Med Biol. 2015 Feb 07; 60(3):1047-67.
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Effect of dental restorations and prostheses on radiotherapy dose distribution: a Monte Carlo study. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2009 Feb 03; 10(1):80-89.
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Reducing metal artifacts in cone-beam CT images by preprocessing projection data. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Mar 01; 67(3):924-32.
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[Polishing of amalgam]. Prev Assist Dent. 1987 Mar-Apr; 13(2):26-7.