Education: Mottled Teeth

Between Goose Creek Mountains and Snake River in southernmost Idaho lies Oakley, a farming town of 882 on a feeder line of the Union Pacific. Remote, obscure Oakley last week became an important place on the world's medical map. Investigators have definitely proved that what mottled the teeth of Oakley children, by injuring the buds which lay down enamel for the permanent teeth, was fluorine in the drinking water. The teeth looked chalky, were pitted and stained with yellow spots.

Mottled teeth mar the mouths of children in more than 100 U. S....

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