CHILDREN’S TEETH
deplorable condition
DUNEDIN, July 15. In an address on New Zealand teeth Dr Dodils,'Dean of the Dental Faculty, said that in spite of tremendous advances in the knowledge of dental surgery and its practice, the condition of teeth in the Dominion, had grown . steadily worse until to-day there existed an appalling amount of dental disease. The amount (per child was dis.■■t' trest ingly high. Tho total amount of /suffering in this country alone directly traceable to dental disease must be enormous, and was largely in child- ?>- ren up to eighteen years. Beyond all ouestion the dental condition of New Zealand children was deplorable. The tendency, was for «Vn- . ditions to get worse. This was rt (fy tributable to no one cause, but rather ‘ to the absence of certain forces or )/ factors which upset the equilibrium of health. In pre-pakeha days the Maori v liad probably the finest dental equipment in the world, and Maori teeth were still used as standards of ex- , pallence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1931, Page 2
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