The soft tissue reaction to amalgam depended on whether it was finely ground or a solid mass. Finely ground amalgam was actively digested within macrophages and giant-cells with loss of mercury and the formation of fine particles of silver and sulphur. Larger masses became surrounded by a fibrous capsule.
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