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Dental Fluorosis and Dental Caries.

November 1939 | American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health | Editorial | 29(11):1260–1261.
FOR some 8 or 9 years past the presence of fluorine in water supplies has been attracting much attention, chiefly as a danger and as the cause of endemic dental fluorosis, or mottled enamel, which has been reported in some 300 communities in 23 states of the Union. According to Dean,1 this condition was first described by J. M. Eager 2 in a report from Naples under the name " Denti di Chiaie (Chiaie teeth)," so called from Dr. Stephano Chiaie, who first observed the condition in Italy, where