@Article{, title={Assessment of cadmium levels in Blood, hair, saliva and teeth in a sample of Iraqi workers and detection of dental findings}, author={Raja H. Al-Jubouri رجاء الجبوري and Ammar Issa Bashbosh عمار عيسى بشبوش}, journal={Journal of baghdad college of dentistry مجلة كلية طب الاسنان بغداد}, volume={24}, number={special issue 1}, pages={60-64}, year={2012}, abstract={Background: Cadmium considered one of the heavy metals, by time can be accumulate in plants, animals andhumans. This study aimed to using some biomarkers (blood, hair, saliva and teeth), that can be easily obtained andprocessed for measuring the cadmium concentration in human body and assessment of DMF/t which may resultfrom accumulation of cadmium.Subjects, Materials and methods: This study had been done between April – October of 2010 at Al-kufa CementFactory in Najaf , the numbers of exposed subjects were 55 and control subjects were 44, blood, hair ,saliva andteeth were taken as biomarkers then DMF/t were calculated. After processing of these biomarkers (blood, hair, salivaand teeth) cadmium analyzed by using atomic absorption spectrophotometer device (AAS).Results: The study reported that blood ,hair ,saliva and teeth are good biomarker for measuring the concentration ofcadmium in addition to effect of some factors like smoking habit , residency, age and in accumulation of thatheavy metal in addition to increasing of the numbers of decayed and missing teeth with increasing of cadmium butwithout increasing in numbers of the filling teeth. Also there was significant difference in cadmium concentrationbetween exposed and control peopleConclusions: This study reported that there was significant increased in cadmium concentration among exposedsubject if compared with control subject. Also indicated that factors like smoking habit, residency and age could ledto increasing the cadmium concentration. In addition to increased the numbers of decay and missing teeth whenthe cadmium concentration was increased in these biomarkers

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