Fluoride dentrifice and stomatitis
September 1957
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Northwest Medicine
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Douglas TE.
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56:1037-1039.
Stomatitis has been seen with increasing frequency the past fifteen months (prior to October 1956). At first I was quite aware that a gastrointestinal disturbance, gall bladder disorder or some physical or pyschologic factor might be producing some of the oral lesions which I was seeing. However, as time passed I became more and more cognizant of one basic underlying factor -- namely, practically all of the patients whom I was seeing were using dental powder or cream which contained one of the f