Why we have not changed our minds about the safety and efficacy of water fluoridation

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 526-543

  Newdrun, Erxest ^a   Horowitz, Herschei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE CANCER; DENTAL CARIES; FLUORIDATION; FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SAFETY; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARIOSTATIC AGENTS; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; FLUORIDATION; FLUORIDES; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0033278107     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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