Child fluorosis in Chhattisgarh, India: a community-based survey

Gitte Sunil Vilasrao1, K M Kamble, Ramanath N Sabat

  • 1Regional Office of Health and Family Welfare and Regional Leprosy Training and Research Institute, Government of India, Under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Lalpur, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Correspondence to: Dr Sunil Vilasrao Gitte, Deputy Director, Regional Office of Health and Family Welfare and Regional Leprosy Training and Research Institute, Government of India, Under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Lalpur, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492 001, India. sv.gitte@gov.in.

Indian Pediatrics
|November 30, 2014
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