Tag: Placental transfer
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Developmental fluoride neurotoxicity: an updated review.
Background After the discovery of fluoride as a caries-preventing agent in the mid-twentieth century, fluoridation of community water has become a widespread intervention, sometimes hailed as a mainstay of modern public health. However, this practice results in elevated fluoride intake and has become controversial for two reasons. First, topical fluoride application in the oral cavity […]
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Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada.
Key Points Question Is maternal fluoride exposure during pregnancy associated with childhood IQ in a Canadian cohort receiving optimally fluoridated water? Findings In this prospective birth cohort study, fluoride exposure during pregnancy was associated with lower IQ scores in children aged 3 to 4 years. Meaning Fluoride exposure during pregnancy may be associated with adverse […]
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Fluoride: A review of use and effects on health.
Introduction: Appropriate oral health care is fundamental for any individual’s health. Dental caries is still one of the major public health problems. The most effective way of caries prevention is the use of fluoride. Aim: The aim of our research was to review the literature about fluoride toxicity and to inform physicians, dentists and public […]
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Transplacental passage of fluoride in pregnant Polish women assessed on the basis of fluoride concentraions in maternal and cord blood plasma.
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Fluoride concentrations in the human placenta and maternal and cord blood
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Placental Transfer of Fluoride and Tin in Rats Given Various Fluoride and Tin Salts
Fetal fluoride and tin levels. Two-way analysis of variance of the values for animals fed salts containing fluoride indicated that the variable of test salt did not have a significant effect on fetal fluoride level (P > 0.25). However, the dietary level of fluoride had a highly significant effect (P << 0.01 ) on the […]
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Prenatal and postnatal ingestion of fluoride salts: a progress report.
*This study was made possible, in part by research grant D 70 from the United States Public Health Service, U, S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and in part by a grant from the New Jersey Dental Research Association, Inc. Enziflur@ tablets were supplied for this study by Ayerst Laboratories, 22 East 40th Street, […]
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Prenatal and postnatal ingestion of fluorides: fourteen years of investigation — final report*.
SUMMARY Data is presented showing that fluoride ingested by gravid women enters the maternal circulation, is stored in the placenta and passes through the placental barrier to enter the foetal blood supply. Evidence is presented that the fluoride in the foetal blood supply affects the developing teeth to make them more resistant .to dental caries. […]
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Analyses of ECGs in 271 cases with dental fluorosis
Our team performed investigations in Yuqing Village and Guanfang Village (1) which were seriously affected by endemic fluorosis, from September to October 1985; those two villages are only 1,500 meters distant from Mangbu District of Zhenxiong County, and the life and production conditions in these two villages are similar to those in Mangbu District, only […]
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Developmental toxicity evaluation of sodium fluoride administered to rats and rabbits in drinking water.
The authors comments on the Embryo–fetal effects on rats: … Although there were no significant pairwise effects from sodium fluoride administration, the percentage of litters with one or more external malformed fetuses, the percentage of externally malformed fetuses per litter and the percentage of skeletally malformed fetuses per liter, exhibited increasing trends with increasing dose […]