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I Sir, —Your correspondent, I asks six questions. They cannot be adequately answered in 150 words. 1. Treatment is necessary because of the prevalen'ce of dental caries (60 per cent, or more of this can be “prevented”). 2. Teeth may be “watched”’ in the clinic or elsewhere, until Doomsday; “watching” not lessen the incidence of dental caries. 3. Propaganda spread “through a special travelling nurse”: a small step in the right direction, but constitutes no more than “a drop *in the ocean” of that required to enlighten the nation on “prevention.” 4 is answered in general, in my reply to 1. sis likewise answered in 3. We know enough to-day to “prevent” about three-quarters of the general and dental diseases of the people. My contention is that the same amount of time, energy, and money must be expended on “prevention” that is now spent on “treatment.”—Yours, etc., DENTAL SURGEON. April 14, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25160, 16 April 1947, Page 9
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