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Some epithelial changes in fluorosis.

1944 | The Journal of Hygiene | Spira L. | 43(6):400-1.
Extract Like the skin and its appendages, the teeth, nails and hair, so also other tissues of ectodermal origin are here shown to be affected by fluorine. The action of fluorine consists in lowering the level of the calcium in the blood and tissues. The epithelia of the mouth and the salivary glands, of the nasopharynx, the conjunctivae and the lachrymal glands may be affected. Signs and symptoms are thus produced which are closely similar to those usually attributed primarily to infection. It

Fluorine and Fluorosis [October 1944].

1944 | The Indian Medical Gazette | Mojumder NJ. | 79(10): 508.
Correspondence FLUORINE AND FLUOROSIS Sir, With regard to your remark 'This has led to the suggestion that non-toxic amounts of sodium fluoride. may be added to drinking water for the prevention of dental decay' in the editorial of June number 1944, I wish to draw your attention to the fact that the use of fluorine in dental treatment is in vogue already. A good account was published by Prof. E. H. Lukmsky, Director, Stomatological Clinic, First Moscow State Medical Institute (fluorine cu