title: Placental transfer of fluoride in pregnant women consuming optimum fluoride in drinking water.
abstract: The study was conducted on 25 healthy women residing in optimum fluoride areas, who were to deliver normally through vaginal route, to correlate the maternal and cord plasma fluoride levels and evaluate the placental transfer of fluoride. A wide variation was found in the maternal and cord plasma fluoride levels. In only 8 percent of the cases the fluoride levels in cord plasma were higher than maternal plasma. It was deduced that the placenta allows passive diffusion of fluoride from mother to foetus and does not act as a barrier.
authors.affiliation: Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Dept of Dentistry, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malhotra
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tewari
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Chawla
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gauba
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dhall
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005312:Fetal Blood / Q000737:chemistry; D005457:Fluoridation; D005459:Fluorides / Q000097:blood / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D006801:Humans; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D011247:Pregnancy
chemical_list: D005459:Fluorides