Bone density vs bone quality: What’s a clinician to do? — Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine: "Although the dose-response curve indicates that sodium fluoride increases bone mass, this drug actually increases the fracture rate because it makes bone more brittle.
KLEEREKOPER M, BALENA R. FLUORIDES AND OSTEOPOROSIS. ANNU REV NUTR 1991; 11:309–324 REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION � 1991 FROM ANNUAL REVIEWS, WWW.ANNUALREVIEWS.ORG
Fluoride looks good as a treatment if we look only at density"
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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