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IT has recently been reported that various substances besides fluorine are capable of producing altered incremental lines in the dent in of rats' incisor teeth. Weinmann1 has shown that strontium, injected as strontium chloride, will cause a hypercalcified line in the dentin forming at the time of injection; the effects on enamel formation were much slighter. Wessinger and Weinmann2 have further shown that manganese and boron have similar effects on both dentin and enamel.
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05 August 1944
An Erratum to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/154176d0
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IRVING, J. 'Fluorine-Like' Action of Various Substances on the Teeth. Nature 154, 149–150 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154149a0
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