The contrast between the teeth of the past and the teeth of to-day is appalling” said Air J. Renfrew White, F.R.C.S., speaking to the Sunlight League of New Zealand in Christchurch. He described a Maori skull 100 years old and a German skull 2000 years old, each with perfect, regular, and undiseased teeth. “You would have to drive for a very long Way and look very patiently to find anythin’" as good as that in New Zealand to-day,” he remarked.
The following appeared hi last week’s Second jEdition.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 33
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