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Comparison Of Fluoride Excretion After Intake Of Fluoride Tablet With Water, Plain Milk And High Calcium Milk., Yuttana Punya-Ngarm, Pornsri Patimanukaseam, Krissanun Prakongsup, Santerm Mudhasakul

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

Objective To determine urinary fluoride excreted during 3 hours after intake sodium fluoride (NaF) tablet with water, plain milk and high calcium (Ca) milk. Materials and Methods Ten healthy subjects, 19 - 21 year-old, took 0.25 mg NaF tablet with 250 ml water. Afterwards, urine samples were collected every 30 minutes for 3 hours. The volume of urine was measured, and fluoride ion concentration was determined by fluoride electrode. Mean fluoride ion concentration excreted in 3 hours and mean percentages of total fluoride ingested were calculated. The experiments were repeated 4 times for 2 kinds of plain milk and 2 …