[Solubility of metal components into tissue culture medium from dental amalgams (author's transl)].

Solubility of metal components into tissue culture medium, YLH, from various dental amalgams including high copper, conventional and copper amalgam was measured with atomic absorption spectrometry. The results obtained were as follows.: 1. Mercury solubility was found much in all the dental amalgams after one day extraction. This was followed by gradual increase in solubility in the high copper amalgams until after seven days. On the otherhand, initial high solubility was maintained in conventional and copper amalgams through the whole experimental period. 2. Higher solubility of silver and copper was recorded in the high copper amalgams. 3. Zinc was only found in Dispersalloy and copper amalgam. 4. Tin was unable to be measured in all the amalgams examined. It was considered that the present results could shed a light on the mechanism for cytotoxicity yielding of the dental amalgams.