On fluoride and bone strength
1995
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Calcified Tissue International
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Turner CH, Dunipace AJ.
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56:416-18.
We welcome the opportunity to respond to the letter by Baylink et al. Their letter makes many good points but, unfortunately, it also contains several misinterpretations of our analysis. The thesis of Baylink's letter and the paper of Einhorn et al. [1] is that fluoride incorporation into cortical bone does not impair the bone's mechanical properties. We assert that the apparent effect of fluoride on bone strength depends on how strength is defined [2, 3]. It is important to recognize the differ