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Study finds link between tea, fluoride, and weak bones

June 20, 2012

The authors identified 5 patients in their practice who developed skeletal fluorosis as a consequence of drinking tea (primarily darjeeling tea) over a course of 10 to 25 years. The skeletal fluorosis in these patients was the osteomalacic variety of the disease, in which the bones become softened and weak. As a result of the “fluoride-related osteomalacia”, the patients suffered “spontaneous bone fractures” where their bones fractured without external trauma.