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Dental Amalgam

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an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth

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Classifications

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
amalgam
plural
Dental Amalgams
possessive
Dental Amalgam's
pluralpossessive
Dental Amalgams'