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Objective
The Minimata Convention on mercury includes amalgam phase‐down and eventual phase‐out from dentistry. To aid its subsequent evaluation it is important to have baseline data of amalgam use in a locality prior to implementing a phase‐down.
Methodology
Records of patients spanning 5 years from January 2011 to January 2016 were analysed to determine and the compare frequency of amalgam usage...