print email comment close Dental Board of California: Dental Materials Fact Sheet URL: http://www.dbc.ca.gov/formspubs/pub_dmfs2004.pdf Description: This site features a fact sheet (also available in Spanish and Mandarin) that describes the advantages and disadvantages of various types of dental materials. Materials include porcelain (ceramic), nickel or cobalt-chrome alloys, glass and resin ionomers, porcelain fused with metal, gold alloy, composite resin, and amalgam. Discusses toxicity of dental materials, including amalgam fillings, which contain mercury (an element on California's Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to cause reproductive toxicity). Opens directly into a PDF document. Publisher: State of California Extra Keywords prop 65 Library of Congress Subject Headings: Dental materials Dental materials -- Toxicology LII Database Information: Record 21172 created by Maria Brandt on 04/06/2006 Last modification on 03/01/2008 Published: 04/13/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21172