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Show I Lucky Kids I L ."fl . m ES These children have healthy teeth. They are a lot better off than most American children. Right now, according to Dr. Walter Wal-ter H. Scherer, president of the American Dental Association, children chil-dren between 6 and 18 years of age in the United States need more than 244,000,000 dental fillings, many miHions of extractions -and vast amounts of other corrective work. Communities, states and the fed-eral fed-eral government must share with parents and dentists in the responsibility respon-sibility of providing sound dental health for all children, Dr. Scherer points out. The ADA has a national program calling for (1) expanded research to find the causes of and new means of preventing dental diseases; dis-eases; (2) dental health education for all; and (3) dental care projects proj-ects for every community, particularly particu-larly for all children. Dental health for children today will mean dental health for the entire nation tomorrow. |