Effect of fluoride on the calcification of allogenic bone implants in rats
Date
1974
DOI
Authors
Brown, Marvin L.
Burdine, John T.
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Abstract
In twenty-five (25) male adult rats which had decalcified
allogenic bone implants placed in mid-fibular gaps
and kept on a low-fluoride casein diet (1 ppm- fluoride),
the addition of 25 p.p.m. fluoride to the drinking water
did not show any direct detectable relationship to the
mg % calcium in the ashed implants or in ashed adjacent
tibial bone, nor in the percent ash content.
Neither did the fluoride enhance or inhibit the success
of the implants. For all implants did calcify and
only one control mid-fibular gap closed on its own. It
is our conclusion that fluoride at levels used in this
experiment have no effect on calcification of allogenic
bone implants.
Description
Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry, 1974. Periodontics.
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