... The accompanying fluorosis problem can be observed at various intensity levels in the study area ranging from dental fluorosis to debilitating skeletal fluorosis, along with nonskeletal manifestations and premature aging...
Working conditions in the mining and processing of fluorite and in cryolite and aluminum production remain poor despite the introduction of protective measures. Every year, new cases of fluorosis are diagnosed, and in a number of regions of the country this disease is one of the foremost chronic occupational intoxications.
The clinical picture of occupational fluorosis, first described in 1932 as osteosclerosis, was subsequently supplemented by the observations of domestic and foreign authors
There have been few domestic reports on the effects of chronic industrial fluorine poisoning on the adult nervous system. In order to understand the state of higher functions of the central nervous system in patients with chronic industrial fluorosis, in November 1993 we performed X-rays, intelligence testing, fingernail fluorine content testing, electroencephalographs, and tests of nervous system symptoms and signs on workers in the electrolysis workroom at an aluminum production facility on th
