DENTAL CONFERENCE.
| THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. GRAVITY OF TEETH LIS EASES. 1 f By Telegraph.—Press* Association. Dunedin Last Night. The sixth annual meeting of the New "Zealand Dental Association will b© opened here to-morrow. Alter the delegates had been welcomed I.\ the Mayor to-day, the president of the aseociat?on (Mr. T. A. Hunter 1 delivered & presidential address, his subject being the duty of the State at.d the public towards prevention of' denial disease. In the course of his remarks he said at least four-fifths of the people in the Dominion are suffering in a greater or less degree from dental di«ea««, the prevalence of which constituted one of the most insidious forms o f diieate that napped human vitality. The »peaker went on to refer to the assistant* that could be rendered bv ths medical profession in minimising d(ntal disease, and also advocated that th* authorities should have organised examination SeJ efficient, treatment of (he ir outlu of onndren in public schools By this intervention the health of the people would be enhanced, hnnpiness increased, calls on ;he charitable institutions lrt«ened, I.ind the t«xpn ver relieved of yearly increasing burdens.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 350, 30 March 1910, Page 5
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189DENTAL CONFERENCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 350, 30 March 1910, Page 5
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