Chronic endemic fluorosis (with bone affections) in the Punjab.
September 1945
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The Indian Medical Gazette
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Khan YM, Wig KL.
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80:429-33.
First Page of Study
Since the investigation of Black an,d McKay in 1916 into the problem of mottled enamel, and the definite association of this anomaly with the fluorine content of drinking waters by Churchill (1931, 1932), the matter of fluorine intoxication has been studied in detail by different workers in various parts of the World. It has been shown that this mottling of the enamel occurs only if the fluorine content of the water is above 2 to 3 mg. per litre (Smith and Smith, 1932) or, a