DENTAL DISORDERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 140, 5 August 1911, Page 4

DENTAL DISORDERS.

i'hcre is now a very general rocognilion of tlio dangers which arise from I in extraordinary prevalence of dental dir.orders among school children. Decayed teeth are at least a contributory aftor in the ("Miring of many serious Hoots and illnesses; and over 90 pm eat. of the elementary school children hi Groat Britain have teeth which are iflier decayed or show signs of decay, fet (says the “Westminster ClaKftte”) Mn record of flic Cam bridge dent'd •hide founded four years ago by the jjonerositv of ]Vlr .Scdley 1 aylor, and mw maintained by the Borough Conni!, shows bow successfully the evil a be controlled. WJien t!ie elinie vas opened d() per cent, of the chilli n of thirteen years of age had each :dne or more permanent teeth carious. Now the borough dentist is able to •cijort that In and bis assistants have '.neccedcd in keeping the teeth of 70 ■>er cent, of the eliildien dealt v. 511» •’rco from curies. One expects that vhen the clinic has been establislird ■o long that every child lias been in its care since entering tin school, that

iguro A', ill ho even higher. it is a ■uflicioncv remarkable* result of for.i

oars’ work, in demonstrate ill? groat alnc anil tl:o small cost of the dental

clinic; one could wish indeed that every educational authority had already imitated the Cambridge Borough. Conn-