VITAMIN D
BUILDING GOOD TEETH WHAT DIET DOES LONDON, April C. If research into dental decay, which the (ieneral Medical Council is carrying out is successful, it is most likely that there will be no dentists in the next century. Working on 1000 children in a chain of orphanages around Birmingham, Dr. Alan Devcrall, from Johannesburg, has been for three years testing the theory of building up teeth from within by a daily diet of vitamin l>, which has rich calcifying properties. The children have a full course of ordinary diet, the only addition being vitamin I). Children undergoing the diet showed 75 per cent, less decay than children not dieting. Dr. Devcrall said: "We have only begun. I shall be satisfied if 1 can say definitely after 20 years that we are on the right lines. We are also conducting research into the reasons for the greater decay of boys' teeth than girls. "The whole basis of our theories is that teeth are best doctored by building up from the body. Incessant tinkering with fillings, extractions, crownings and other makeshift methods arc mere painful palliations and must
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 7
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