SOUND TEETH.
WHY ABORIGINES HAVE THEM. A return to food conditions much more primitive than those in vogue will be necessary if ravages of dental disease are to be ah-ecked. This is the lesson derived, by Dr T. D. Campbell, of Adelaide University, from an exhaustive examination of teeth and jaws ol‘ Australian aborigines, which ihe finds are strikingly large, wellformed, and healthy (says che American Science Magazine). “There is in every respect,” Dr Campbell says, “ a very marked, difference between the well-formed Australian dentition and the ill-formed, djsease-stricken masticatory outfit with which modern civil ised people are burdened.” The very marked immunity from dental disease among aboriginal children and grownups he attributed to the coarse, tough food which formed their djet, and the crude methods of preparation and cooking. Even children’s teeth, he found, were well worn from chewing tough substances at an early age.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 1
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