Show la wl i short life the rhe loss of the masticating masti cating tooth teeth before tb tha thirtieth year means a shortening of the life of the individual of from two to five years to know the extent to which many of these teeth are lost even before the fifteenth year one has only to turn tum to the recently published reports odthe of the examination of the tha teeth ofelt of children ildren in the tha so schools bools and orphan homes of london and elsewhere if some effective measures are not adopted for combating combat izig the ravages es of dental decay it looks verv very much as though an another 0 ther half contu century ry would find the poorer classer classe of english people practically illy edentulous before the tha twentieth year |