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What is it?
Titanium is a metal used for some orthopedic devices and medical implants.

How can I avoid it? 
You should avoid contact with this substance. Avoidance requires reading the Safety Data Sheets (SDS) or direct communication with the manufacturer.

Uses:
• Dental implants
• Metal eyeglasses
• Pacemakers
• Prosthetic devices for joint replacement
• Refined into titanium dioxide (pigment for paints, paper, plastics, toothpaste, and sunblock)

Titanium metal is used for alloys with aluminum, molybdenum, manganese, iron, and other metals.
Examples of titanium alloy uses are:
  • Aerospace industry
  • Camping cookware and lanterns
  • Camping lanterns
  • Crutches
  • Dental and endodontic instruments and files
  • Eye glasses
  • Jewelry including body piercing studs
  • Laptops
  • Mobile phones
  • Orthopedic implants/rods
  • Paint pigments
  • Paper production
  • Sporting goods such as:
    • Tennis rackets
    • Golf clubs
    • Lacrosse stick shafts
    • Helmet grills
    • Bicycle frames
  • Tent stakes
  • Wheelchairs

How safe is it?

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