MTA-WHITE REPAIR ENDODONTIC CEMENT

SECTION 2: Hazards identification

MTA-ANGELUS IS A LIGHT GRAY AND MTA-WHITE IS A WHITE POWDER. WHEN IN CONTACT WITH MOISTURE IN EYES OR ON SKIN, OR WHEN MIXED WITH WATER, THE PRODUCT BECOMES HIGHLY CAUSTIC (PH>12) AND WILL DAMAGE OR BURN (AS SEVERLY AS THIRD-DEGREE) THE EYES OR SKIN. INHALATION MAY CAUSE IRRITATION TO THE MOIST MUCOUS MAMBRANES OF THE NOSE, THROAT AND UPPER RESPIRATORY SYSTEM OR MAY CAUSE OR MAY AGGRAVATE CERTAIN LUNG DISEASES OR CONDITIONS. HOWEVER A SINGLE SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE TO THE SMALL QUANTITIES INDICATED IN EACH APLICATION IS NOT LIKE TO CAUSE SERIOUS HARM. USE EXPOSURE CONTROLS OR PERSONAL PROTECTION METHODS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 08.

Potential health effects

MAY VARY DEPENDING UPON THE DURATION AND DEGREE OF EXPOSURE. TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE HEALTH HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PRODUCT, USE EXPOSURE CONTROLS OR PERSONAL PROTECTION METHODS AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 08. 00 2/4 Acute Chronic Acute/Chronic EXPOSURE TO AIRBONE DUST MAY CAUSE IMMEDIATE OR DELAYED IRRITATION OR INFLAMMATION OF THE CORNEA. EYE CONTACT BY 3.1 Eye Contact LARGER - AMOUNTS OF DRY - POWDER OR SPLASHES OF OF WET PRODUCT MAY CAUSE EFFECTS RANGING FROM MODERATE EYE IRRITATION TO CHEMICAL BURNS AND BLINDNESS. Acute Chronic Acute/Chronic MTA-ANGELUS AND MTA-WHITE EXPOSURE TO DRY PRODUCT MAY COMING IN CONTACT WITH WET SKIN CAUSE DRYING OF THE SKIN WITH OR EXPOSURE TO WET MTA- SOME INDIVIDUALS MAY EXHIBIT AN CONSEQUENT MILD IRRITATION OR ANGELUS AND MTA-WHITE MAY ALLERGIC

Response

UPON 3.2 Skin Contact MORE SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS CAUSE MORE SEVERE SKIN EXPOSURE TO THE PRODUCT. THE ATTRIBUTABLE TO AGGRAVATION OF EFFECTS, INCLUDING THICKENING, RESPONSE MAY APPEAR IN A MOTHER CONDITIONS. DISCONFORT CRACKING OR FISSURING OF THE VARIETY O FORMS RANGING FROM OR PAIN CANNOT BE RELIED UPON SKIN. PROLONGED EXPOSURE CAN A MILD RASH TO SEVERE SKIN TO ALERT A PERSON TO A CAUSE SEVERE SKIN DAMAGE IN ULCERS. HAZARDOUS SKIN EXPOSURE. THE FORM OF CHEMICAL (CAUSTIC) BURNS. Acute Chronic Acute/Chronic EXPOSURE TO PRODUCT MAY INHALATION EXPOSURE TO FREE CAUSE IRRITATION TO THE MOIST CRYSTALLINE SILICA MAY CAUSE MUCOUS MEMBRANES OF THE DELAYED LUNG INJURY INCLUDING NOSE, THROAT AND UPPER 3.3 Inhalation SILICOSIS, A DISABLING AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. PRE- - POTENTIALLY FATAL LUNG DISEASE, EXISTING UPPER RESPIRATORY AND AND/OR CAUSE OR AGGRAVATE LUNG DISEASES MAY BE AGGRAVATE BY INHALATION OF THE OTHER LUNG DISEASES OR CONDITIONS. PRODUCT. Acute Chronic Acute/Chronic 3.4 Ingestion INTERNAL DISCOMFORT OR ILL - EFFECTS ARE POSSIBLE IF LARGE QUANTITIES ARE SWALLOWED. THE IGREDIENTS USED TO MANUFACTURE MTA-ANGELUS AND MTA-WHITE IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS A CARCINOGEN BY NTP, PSHA, OR IARC. HOWEVER, IT MAY CONTAIN TRACE AMOUNTS OF SUBSTANCES RECOGNIZED AS 3.5 Carcinogenic potential CARCINOGENS BY THESE ORGANIZATIONS. IN ADDITION, IARC CLASSIFIES CRYSTALLINE SILICA, A TRACE CONSTITUENT, AS A KNOW HUMAN CARCINOGEN (GROUP I). NTP HAS CHARACTERIZED RESPIRABLE SILICA AS "REASONABLY ANTICIPATED TO BE A CARCINOGEN." (SEE ALSO SECTION 15.)