DENTAL DISEASE.
CURSE OF CIVILJSEP WORLD. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 5. At the New Zealand Dental Assocation conference this morning the president, Mr A. Dickens, of Invercargill, in his address said that dental disease, with its focal and systemic infections, was the greatest curse of the civilised world to-day, less than one in 10,006 of the population being immune from dental caries. Tho dental profession and prominent medical authorities the world over had declared that the next move in the fight against disease was in preventive medicine and must como from the dentists. He strongly stressed the importance of a natural food diet of milk, fruit and green vegetables, containing plenty of mineral salts, for children and expectant mothers in order to build up tho teeth of the race.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 107, 6 April 1926, Page 6
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