1Deptartment of Foods and Nutritional Sciences, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur-522 510, Andhra Pradesh, India
2Department of Zoology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur-522 510, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Fluoride has a relative atomic weight of 19, at room temperature it is a pale yellow-green gas. It is the most electronegative and reactive of all elements present in nature. For the present study five different villages of Krishna district were selected for better sampling. To study the fluoride content and nutritional status, questionnaire method was used. Different soils were collected from different areas of the villages. The mean average fluoride content of the soil in these areas was 2.85, 2.75, 1.69, 2.84 and 2.97ppm respectively. Fluoride from the soil reaches the population through diet. Women seem to be suffering from dental and skeletal fluorosis. The people were also educated to use home scale to reduce the dental and skeletal fluorosis.
Availability of Fluoride, Epidemiology, Soil, Clinical aspects
