Background: The fluoride drug is mentioned as a double-edged weapon due to its positive and negative outcomes. Reducing dental caries in large population, cost effective excess teeth or body may lead systemic diseases even death. Dental erosion affects the hard tissues of rendering them vulnerable decay. Methods & Materials: A school based descriptive cross-sectional survey. Purposive sampl...

The review of this article is focusing on role of chemical nature of fluoride on human health and environment. Fluoride has both positive and negative effects on human health and environment. However this positive effect is felt when the fluoride concentration is low. At higher concentration the negative affects of fluoride far out way its positive effects. Millions of people all over the world...

Endemic fluorosis leads to dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis and visceral fluorosis. This case described about the crippling skeletal fluorosis with neurological manifestations in the form of myelopathy, due to exposure to high fluoride level in water for many years. The complications of fluoride deposition in bones resulted in generalised sclerosis, osteophytosis, with narrowing of inter ve...

This field study included the whole population of children aged 10-15 years (77 from a 0.19 mg/L F area; 89 from a 3.00 mg/L F area), with similar nutritional, dietary habits and similar ethnic and socioeconomic status. The fluoride concentration in the drinking water, the bone mineral content, the bone density and the degree of dental fluorosis were determined. The left radius was measured for...

OBJECTIVES We assess the prevalence and pathogenic stage of skeletal fluorosis among children and adolescents residing in a severe coal-burning endemic fluorosis area of southwest China. METHODS We used a cross-sectional design. A total of 1,616 students aged between 7 and 16 years in Zhijin County, Guizhou, China in late 2004 were selected via a cluster sampling of all 9-year compulsory educ...

Choi et al. (2014) is a pilot study of the association of exposure to fluoride with cognitive function of children in a Chinese community. Although limited it provides more useful information than almost all the studies included in the earlier review by Choi et al. (2012). Most of the reports considered in that reviewwere very brief with little detail or consideration of confounding factors. Po...

Dental fluorosis manifests itself as white stains on the enamel of teeth exposed to excessive doses of fluoride during their formation. Fluorosis usually occurs as a result of the ingestion of dentifrices, gels and fluoridated solutions. It may be diagnosed as mild, moderate or severe, and in some cases, it may cause the loss of the surface structure of dental enamel. The aim of this study was ...

Fluorosis in man and animals is the resultant of chronic exposure Fluoride (F) for prolonged period through F contaminated drinking water foods industrial pollution. However, fluoridated emissions are major sources humans domestic animals. Chronic not only deteriorate health human beings but also causes diverse adverse toxic effects on hard (teeth bones) soft (organs) tissues. Various induced p...

Introduction: Dental fluorosis is a condition which occurs due to exposure fluoride than required.The begins at the first eight years of life leads an eruption discolored teeth with stains from yellow dark brown, surface irregularities and noticeable pit. It can be treated by whitening, composite bonding Porcelain veneers. Aim: To determine knowledge, attitude practice on management among denta...