Show 1 67 short 0 rt tife the ile loss of the th e masticating masti ma sti cating teeth before the thirtieth year means a short shortening laing of the life of the individual of from two to five years to know the extent tent to which many of these teeth aro ara lost eveir even before the fifteenth year one has only to turn to the recently published reports of the examination of tho tha teeth of children in the schools and orphan homes of london and elsewhere if some effective measures are not adopted for combating the ravages of dental decay it looks very much as though another half century would find the poorer classes of english people practically edentulous before the twentieth year 41 |