Author/Authors :
DEMİREL, Ümit İstanbul Lepra Hastanesi, Turkey , DELİBAŞI, Tuncay Ankara Dışkapı Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi - Endokriniloji Kliniği, Turkey , AREN, Gamze İstanbul Üniversitesi - Dişhekimliği Fakültesi - Pedodonti Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye
Abstract :
Fluoride can enter public water systems from natural sources, including runoff from weathering of fluoride containing rocks and soils and leaching from soil into groundwater. Fluoride pollution from various industrial discharges and emissions can also contaminate water supplies. Underground water in some regions of the world including Turkey is contaminated with high concentration of fluoride and resulting toxicity creates a major public health problem. In view of reports of increased fluoride levels in many foods and water supplies, it is urgent that further studies be conducted to examine whether there is a link in animals and humans between fluoride and disturbances of the development and function of the human body systems.