Fluoride in drinking water and dental fluorosis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3507-3512

  Mandinic, Zoran ^a   Curcic, Marijana ^a   Antonijevic, Biljana ^a   Carevic, Momir ^a   Mandic, Jelena ^a   Djukic Cosic, Danijela ^a   Lekic, Charles P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dental fluorosis; Drinking water; Fluoride; Hair; Schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENTAL FLUOROSIS; DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE CONTENT; FLUORIDE ION; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAP WATER; WELL WATER;

ALUMINOUS REFRACTORIES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; ION SELECTIVE ELECTRODES; WATER CONTENT;

POTABLE WATER;

BIOMATERIAL; DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; GROUND WATER; SEA WATER; TAP WATER; WELL WATER; FRESH WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHILD; DENTAL HEALTH; DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; HAIR; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; ION SELECTIVE ELECTRODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERBIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOOTH DISEASE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HAIR; METABOLISM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; FRESH WATER; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING;

SERBIA;

EID: 77953807664     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.029     Document Type: Article

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