Volume 25

No.1 1992

FLUORIDE

J O U R N A L

of t h e

Internat ional

Society for

Fluoride

Research

XlXth Conference

page 44

Volume 2 5 No.1 1 9 9 2 P a g e s 1 -52

FLUORIDE QUARTERLY REPORTS I s s u e d by

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR FLUORIDE RESEARCH

E d i t o r : J o h n C o l q u h o u n PhD Auckland, N e w Z e a l a n d

C o - E d i t o r s : A W B u r g s t a h l e r PhD L a w r e n c e , K a n s a s U S A G W Miller PhD Logan, U t a h U S A

E M K r i s h n a m a c h a r i MD H y d e r a b a d , I n d i a

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL New Evldence on Water F l u o r l d e and Bone F r a g l l l t y . . . . . 1-4

O R I G I N A L ARTICLES FLUORIDE INGESTION A N D ITS CORRELATION WITH GASTROINTESTINAL DISCOMFORT

A K S u s h e e l a , Taposh K Das, I P Gupta, R K Tandon, S K Kaker, P Gosh, R C Deka . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 2 2

EFFECT OF INDUSTRIAL FLUOROSIS ON HAEMOGRAM OF CAMELS

FLUORIDE CONCENTRATION IN TILAPIA FISH (OREOCHROMIS LEUCOSTICTUS) FROM LAKE NAIVASHA, K E N Y A

M H Karram, Th A Ibrahim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-36

J o s e p h K Gikunju . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31-43

ANNOUNCEMENT ISFR C o n f e r e n c e Kyoto, Japan . September 8-11 . . . . . . . 44

ABSTRACTS EFFECT OF FLUORIDE TREATMENT ON THE FRACTURE RATE IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN WITH OSTEOPOROSIS

B Lawrence Riggs, S t e p h e n F Hodgson, W Michael O'Fallon, Edmund Y S Chao, Heinz W Wahner, J o a n M Muhs, S a n d r a L Cedel, L J o s e p h Melton 111 . . . . . . . 4 5

FLUORIDE A N D BONE - QUANTITY VERSUS QUALITY

FLUORIDE IN THE PREVENTION OF OSTEOPOROSIS AND FRACTURES

REGIONAL VARIATION IN THE INCIDENCE OF HIP FRACTURE

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R o b e r t L i n d s a y . 46

L J o s e p h Melton I11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1

S t e v e n J J a c o b s e n , Jack Goldberg, Toni P Miles, J a c o b A Brody, W i l l i a m S t i e r s , Al f red A R i m m . . . . . . . . 47-48

C o n t e n t s c o n t i n u e d

WATER F L U O R I D E C O N C E N T R A T I O N AND F R A C T U R E O F T H E PROXIMAL FEMUR

WATER F L U O R I D A T I O N AND H I P F R A C T U R E C Cooper , C Wickham, R F Lacey, D J P Barker . . . . . 40-49

C y r u s Cooper , C a r o l A Wickham, David J Barker , S t e v e n J J a c o b s e n . . . . . . . . . . . . 49-50

A P R O S P E C T I V E S T U D Y O F B O N E MINERAL C O N T E N T A N D F R A C T U R E I N COMMUNITIES WITH D I F F E R E N T I A L F L U O R I D E E X P O S U R E

MaryFran R S o w e r s , M K a t h l e e n Clark, Mary L J a n n a u s c h , R o b e r t B Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . 50

BOOK REVIEW S C I E N T I F I C KNOWLEDGE I N C O N T R O V E R S Y : T H E S O C I A L DYNAMICS OF T H E F L U O R I D A T I O N D E B A T E

Brian Martin. Reviewed by Nevi l le H i c k s . . . . . . . . 51-52

F L U O R I D E , o f f t c l a l j o u r n a l of t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l S o c i e t y f o r F l u o r i d e R e s e a r c h , p u b l l s h e s q u a r t e r l y r e p o r t s on biological , chemical , e c o - l o g i c a l , i n d u s t r i a l , t o x i c o l o g i c a l and clinical a s p e c t s o f i n o r g a n i c and o r g a n i c f l u o r i d e compounds.

M A N U S C R I P T S , including p a p e r s p r e s e n t e d a t ISFR c o n f e r e n c e s , a r e a c c e p t e d f o r p u b l i c a t i o n a f t e r a p p r o p r i a t e e v a l u a t i o n a n d recom- mendat ton by q u a l i f i e d r e v i e w e r s ( see I n s t r u c t i o n s t o A u t h o r s on f i n a l page) .

S U B S C R I P T I O N : USS30 p e r annum i n advance .

In J a n u a r y 1 9 9 2 t h e E d i t o r i a l Off ice was moved from Michigan, USA t o Auckland, N e w Zealand. From March 1 9 9 2 s u b s c r i p t i o n s a s w e l l a s m a n u s c r i p t s s h o u l d b e s e n t t o :

The E d i t o r , FLUORIDE 2 1 6 Atkinson Road T i t i r a n g i Auckland I New Zealand