Tag: Bone Density

Interest in fluoride’s affect on bone density stems back to the mid-twentieth century, when scientists first started using fluoride as a drug to build bone mass in patients with osteoporosis. From the 1960s to the 1990s, numerous clinical trials examined the effect of high daily doses of fluoride (20-34 mg/day) on bone density and fracture […]

Based on fluoride’s ability to increase bone mass, doctors in the 1960s began using fluoride as an experimental drug in human clinical trials as a treatment for osteoporosis. The hope was that fluoride would increase the bone density of the patients and thereby help to prevent fractures. Since fluoride was found to increase, rather than decrease, fracture […]