Where can I find information about the effects of metals/nonmetals on living systems?

Question

Please give reference to a website or another topic that can answer my question.

Answer 1

Google is a start, but may not have the information you're looking for. You'll need to search further in the medical literature for the actual report, because this is specialized data, so check into medical publications in your university on-line catalog.

I've seen these publications and know they exist, but don't have a copy at the moment.

Basically, stainless steel and mecury fillings in your teeth DO interact with your body (corrosion), but the corrosion rate is low enough not to be a problem. Titanium implant's corrosion rate is so low as to be non-existent, so if you have a choice, choose titanium.

Only certain plastics are biocompatible (silicone breast implants). Silicone is inert - the problem came from when the implants burst and you had a bunch of silicone floating around.

Stents (for arterial walls) are coated with certain chemicals to make them bio-compatible (so your body doesn't reject them). The trick is in the surface state of the coating to either make the material appear benign to the body, or a coating that resists a bio-film from forming. Look up "medicated stents".

This area of study is strongly related to several areas: electronic surface state of materials, organic chemistry, and immunology of implants.

Answer 2

Go on google.

Answer 3

have you tried the library lots of books in there