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Gainesville braces for end of fluoride in water as new state law looms
Gainesville Regional Utilities says it’s preparing for a smooth transition as a new state law is expected to prohibit local ...
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The facts behind community fluoridation, which can reduce tooth decay by 25%
"Fluoride helps remineralize the outer layer by replacing broken minerals with fluorapatite, which is more resistant to acid breaking teeth down," Dr. Acosta told NBCUniversal Local. "That is the ...
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Prediction and Rationalization of Site Preference of Rare Earth Elements in Fluorapatite from Density Functional Theory
The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c00048. Experimental and DFT lattice parameters; Ca2/Ca1 ...
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Seminole County makes unannounced vote to end fluoride in water
helps create fluorapatite crystals in developing teeth, strengthening them and making them “much more resistant to cavities.” “It gets into those developing permanent teeth and makes them form ...
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Purification and characterization of Antarctic krill chitinase and its role on free fluoride release from Antarctic krill cuticle
(2019) confirmed that the inorganic salt in Antarctic krill cuticle was fluorapatite. Adelung et al. (1987) found that the fluoride was concentrated in Antarctic krill cuticle and the fluoride in the ...
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Surface degradation of glass ceramics after exposure to acidulated phosphate fluoride
The reason for this could be due to the presence of 65% glass, fluorapatite crystals and leucite in its composition. However, interestingly this ceramic did not present mean surface roughness values ...
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In Vitro Hydrolytic Degradation of Giomer-Based and Fluoride-Releasing Bulk Fill Composites Simulated for Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Restorative Dental Sciences Department, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh 11545, Saudi Arabia Engineer Abdullah Bugshan Research Chair for Dental and Oral Rehabilitation, College of ...