Health impact of supplying safe drinking water containing fluoride below permissible level on flourosis patients in a fluoride-endemic rural area of West Bengal
Background: The problem of high fluoride concentration in groundwater resources has become one of the most important toxicological and geo-environmental issues in India. Excessive fluoride in drinking water causes dental and skeletal fluorosis, which is encountered in endemic proportions in several...
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Indian Journal of Public Health |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ijph.in/article.asp?issn=0019-557X;year=2011;volume=55;issue=4;spage=303;epage=308;aulast=Majumdar |