1020 Periodic Table of Medicine: Flouride

Travel Medicine Podcast

In this episode, Dr's J and Santhosh do a deep dive into an element common to dental care and how it came to be! Along the way they cover Colorado brown stain, pediatric dentistry, epidemiology studies, elemental water, industrial aluminum, health crises in the 1920s, the fluoridation of water, industrial waste recycling, modern day dental health, skeletal fluorosis and more! So sit back and relax as we give you the unvarnished tooth about flouride!

Further Reading

https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation#:~:text=Fluoride%20research%20had%20its%20beginnings,brown%20stains%20on%20their%20teeth.

https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-transformation-industrial-waste-public-health-miracle?language_content_entity=en#:~:text=During%20the%201930s%2C%20Dean%2C%20McKay,and%20reduced%20rates%20of%20caries.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6309358/#:~:text=used%20by%20McKay.-,H.%20V.,Treadley%20H.

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