Fluorosis, Dental |
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| Dental Fluoroses; Fluoroses, Dental; Enamel, Mottled; Enamels, Mottled; Mottled Enamels | |
| A chronic endemic form of hypoplasia of the dental enamel caused by drinking water with a high fluorine content during the time of tooth formation, and characterized by defective calcification that gives a white chalky appearance to the enamel, which gradually undergoes brown discoloration. (Jablonski's Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p286) | |