TEETH OF CHILDREN.
" DEPLORABLE CONDITION."
PREVALENCE OF 'DISEASE.
[by telegraph.—fress association.] DUNEDIN, Wednesday.
Iy an address on the quality of the teeth of New Zealanders, Dr. Bodds; dean of tho dental faculty of Otago University, said in spite of tremendous advances in tils knowledge of dental surgery and its*, practice, conditions of teeth in the Dominion had grown steadily worse until today there existed an appalling amount of dental disease.
Tho amount was distressingly high in the case of children. The total amount of suffering in this country alone directly traceable to dental disease was enormous and largely affected children up to 18 years. Beyond all question, Dr. Dodds declared, the dental condition of New Zealand children was deplorable. The-tend-ency was for conditions to get worse. This was attributable 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 had probably the finest dental equipment in the world and Maori teeth were stilTused as standards of excellence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20926, 16 July 1931, Page 11
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