ARTHRITIC PAINS AND FLUORIDE ACCUMULATION

Abstract

Arthritis is considered the first clinical manifestation of bone fluorosis. The first two phases of skeletal fluorosis may pass undiscovered because the symptoms referred by patients are similar to the arthritis. The incidence of the symptom is not known and the point is absent in reference books when dealing with the effects of fluoride. It is deemed highly likely that in areas of endemic fluorosis crippling articular defects may have been labelled as “chronic arthritis”.