Facts to know:
- Are you consuming untreated groundwater ?
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- Is your water contaminated with fluoride?
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- Fluoride ingestion is hazardous to health.
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- Besides drinking water fluoride can enter the body through food, dental products, drugs and industrial emission.
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- Health complaints emanating from fluoride poisoning are of diverse nature
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- Affliction of children are significantly different from adults.
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- In children the adverse effects commence from intra-uterine life, if the mother is exposed to high fluoride.
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- In children the discolouration seen on the permanent teeth may not necessarily be due to Dental Caries or Dirty Teeth.
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- The discolouration of the permanent teeth can be due to Dental Fluorosis.
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- Dental Fluorosis can be distinguished from Dental Caries and Dirty Teeth by the following yardsticks.
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- Discolouration is always horizontally aligned on the enamal surface; discolouration shall be away from the gums; the discolouration shall occur in teeth in pairs (bilaterally simmetrical)
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- Fluoride poisoning effects in adults can be tracked to soft tissue manifestations besides skeletal derangements.
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- Identifying Fluorosis at early stages could potentially save millions of life if intial observations can be confirmed through blood and urine tests for fluoride.
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- The importance of the confirmatory test is to catch the patients at the turning points, before the disease affects multiple organs and systems including bony rigidity and paralysis.
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- If Fluorosis is detected early enough, it has been proven in practise that the disease can be totally cured
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