The influence of a high-sucrose diet on the calcium and phosphorus percentage of the rat femur, and a comparison with its effect on the enamel and dentine of the rat incisor teeth

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Abstract
The Ca and P content and the Ca/P ratios in the rat femur were the same whether the animals were raised on a stock diet of Lever cubes or a diet containing 67% sucrose. This is in contrast to the "sugar" effect on the enamel and dentine of the incisor teeth of the same rats. The correlation coefficients for Ca/P on the stock diet and sugar diet, respectively, were: enamel 0.628, 0.482; dentine 0.629, 0.276; bone 0.435, 0.282. The findings support the view that the processes of mineralization in the 3 tissues are significantly different.