Unsound Teeth.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 230, 13 October 1905, Page 2

Unsound Teeth.

The importance of paying great attention to the care of children’s teeth is emphasised by a special report which the High street School Committea (Dunedin) has obtained from a dentist of good standing on the stats of the teeth of scholars on the school roll. Mr. F. H. Blakey, the dentist entrusted with the work, reports to the committee that he examined the teeth of 300 hundred children of Standards I. to VII. Of all 'he sch lars exsm'n ed, only about 85 have sound sets of teeth, ib** general condiion of th • tec h being very bad. Mr Blakeley ad Is, I .vould .ike to express my *>ir j i-e and regret at finding a > man 4 -sound t -Wi in the months of other VI e her Phy looking children. I cr-'ider th t u is decidedly to tbe ad vantage of parents and sch lars that a periodical examination should b« made, ■ -much pn-sent and future Buffering w >uld be saved, and I would empha ais« the great importance < f caring for bo welfare nf children’s teeth, as ’he children would then have better health nd be consequently brighter in their school ttudits.”