A laboratory researcher and a clinical researcher review and organize 50 years of fluoride studies in this reference book for clinicians, researchers, and students. The result is a thorough analysis of each aspect of the multifaceted relationship between fluoride and dental health, from caries development to the body's metabolism of fluoride. A complete picture of the nature of fluoride is provided for more successful and opportune use of the substance.

290 pp; 86 illus (47 in color)
ISBN: 0-86715-102-1

Table of Contents:
1. Formation of Dental Caries
2. Anticaries Mechanisms of Fluoride
3. Fluoride Metabolism
4. Water Fluoridation
5. Dietary Fluoride Supplementation
6. Chemistry of Topical Fluoride Treatment
7. Professionally Applied Topical Fluoride
8. Fluoride Dentifrices
9. Self-applied Topical Fluoride