ReviewBiological trace element research2021
Dental Fluorosis: the Risk of Misdiagnosis-a Review.
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- Risk Assessment of Dietary Exposure to Fluoride from Follow-On Milk Consumption.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Calcium and Microhardness Quantification in Healthy and Fluorotic Dentin Conditioned with a Self-Etching System: An In Vitro Study.Dentistry journal · 2025Article
- The metagenome and metabolome signatures of dental biofilms associated with severe dental fluorosis.Journal of oral microbiology · 2025Article
- A comparison of three whitening protocols for mild-to-moderate dental fluorosis in anterior teeth.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- Is Italian Dentists' Knowledge of Enamel Development Defects Adequate? A Nationwide Survey.International dental journal · 2024Article
- Soft Drinks as a Dietary Source of Fluoride Exposure.Biological trace element research · 2024Article
- Severe magnitude of dental and skeletal fluorosis and its impact on society and environment in a part of Manbhum-Singhbhum Plateau, India.BMC public health · 2024Article
- ERS Mediated by GRP-78/PERK/CHOP Signaling Is Involved in Fluoride-Induced Ameloblast Apoptosis.Biological trace element research · 2024Article
- Contemporary Understanding of the Etiology and Management of Molar Incisor Hypomineralization: A Literature Review.Dentistry journal · 2023Review
- Distribution of Dental Fluorosis in the Southern Zone of Ecuador: An Epidemiological Study.Dentistry journal · 2023Article
- Fluoridation cessation and children's dental caries: A 7-year follow-up evaluation of Grade 2 schoolchildren in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2022Article
- Fluoride Exposure and Salivary Glands: How Is Glandular Morphology Susceptible to Long-Term Exposure? A Preclinical Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Brick tea consumption and its relationship with fluorosis in Tibetan areas.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
- Human health risk assessment of metals and anions in surface water from a mineral coal region in Brazil.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
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Abstract
Fluoride has been considered as the single factor most frequently responsible for causing enamel mottling. However, in humans, either endogenous and/or exogenous factors not related to fluoride exposure may also cause enamel mottling. In this sense, various studies in the international literature have reported severe mottling of the teeth that could not be attributed to fluoride exposure. Thus, misdiagnosis of non-fluoride-induced enamel defects may occur frequently. Reports of unexpectedly high population prevalence and individual cases of fluorosis, where such diagnoses are irreconcilable with the identified fluoride history, highlight the necessity for a more precise definition and diagnosis of dental fluorosis. Also, a more discriminating diagnostic procedure is suggested. Particularly, positive identification of environmental fluoride levels to which the communities and individuals are exposed shall be developed before the confirmation of a diagnosis of fluorosis. It is considered that a more critical methodology for the diagnosis of fluorosis will be helpful in the rational use and control of fluorides for dental health, and in the identification of factors that may induce enamel defects.
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