Impact of Community Defluoridation on a Village Endemic for Hydric Fluorosis in Rural Karnataka, India.
October-December 2020
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Indian Journal of Community Medicine
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Isaac A, Pruthvish S, Haridas R, Murthy NS.
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45(4): 454–457.
INTRODUCTION
Fluorosis is an endemic disease that has affected 70 million individuals and is prevalent in 22 states of India, particularly in parched parts of the country.[1] The process of removal of harmful fluoride from water is called defluoridation.[2] The world's ground fluoride stores are estimated to be 85 million tons, of which almost 12 million tons are in India.[3] As Kaiwara, a part of Chikkaballapur district, Karnataka, has no alternate source of water, it is dependent solely on gr