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  • a  of or relating to or containing tin

  • A technician spends three to five minutes air-drying his teeth and applying a 10% stannous fluoride solution.
  • As a substitute, considerable benefit can come from having a dentist paint children's teeth with stannous fluoride every three years.
  • Finn Brudevold of Harvard's famed Forsyth Dental Center is concerned that the tin in the stannous fluoride solution commonly used for painting may interfere with the absorption .

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