Show DENTAL DISEASE SAPS ENGLAND'S STRENGTH CLAIM LONDON July 4 AP During AP-During P During I the last few tew generations the teeth lof of the nation have been getting steadily worse according to J. J H H. Badcock who In his presidential address address to the forty fifth annual meeting of ot the tho British Dental as association association ne- ne I contended that the strength of ot the country country's s being beings s sapped by bys dental disease Bad teeth he s said Id was ore one of ot the re results results results re- re of civilization and roughly speaking the nearer people get back to nature the better the teeth Mr Badcock said that during the thelast thelast last Hast fifty or sixty years there had been a great change In the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's food and that the Increase In population pop and the concentration tion In cities had Involved the Importation Importation importation Im Im- im- im of ot more food largely canned or preserved The softness of modern food Mr Badcock be believed believed believed be- be failed to provide that frIction friction friction fric frIc- tion and cleansing to which gums should be naturally subject In the mastication of hard foods roods Taking the nation as a whole said Mr Badcock it appeared that at least 85 per cent of the population population population lation under 20 years of age and an Increasing percentage over that age were sufferers from tram dental diseases There was a higher In Incidence In- In among women than men Dental disease was to be found among all civilized people averred the speaker but we In these Is Islands Islands islands Is- Is lands undoubtedly exhibit a a. bad preeminence It It Is sapping the strength of ot the nation |