Talk:Skeletal fluorosis

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[edit] What is it exactly?

It is quite hard to deduce from the text (particularly at the beginning) what Skeletal fluorosis actually is. It just describes what the possible causes are, and statistics of it in several countries, but gives no mention on how it affects the body. --125.60.241.168 16:03, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I concur. I came here to find out what it was. I still don't know. I may add a needs expert tag if I can figure out how. --24.6.198.12 (talk) 14:34, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Fluorosis is caused by building flouride anions into bone's mineral hydroxylapatite instead of OH- group. It means that hydroxyl anions are replaced by fluoride. I'm sorry I can't explain it more scientific because of my language skills. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.99.163.91 (talk) 14:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)