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Show OR. A. L IHGIESBY IS : --OSAFTWOEHTIST - Dr. A. L. Inglesby was this week appointed ap-pointed dental examiner for the local draft board by Dr. William G. Delryra-pie, Delryra-pie, of Ogden, who Is the state director direct-or for Utah of the Preparedness Lea- . gue of American Dentists. Dr. W. A. " Marshall will act at IMidvale and Dr. Wallace Mace at Garfield. The government aims to be very strict in the matter of good teeth, and all registrants will be required to pass a minute dental examination as well as a general physical examination. The rigors of stern warfare necessitate necessi-tate ample masticating qdalltlea. Decayed De-cayed teeth are more ban liable to ache when the soldiers are obliged to sleep In tents and labor in cold and damp places. At the same time the "canned" food, such as hard-tack, etc., . which they carry with them, requires strong, healthy teeth to pronerly chew it, and if this cannot be done, malnutrition mal-nutrition and improper nourishment will result. The instructions also urge that all abscessed roots and teeth be extracted, as they are foci of countless bodily infections and make the soldier liable to sickness and disease. The physical examinations for the recond draft will commence In a few days and the examining physicians and dentists will be busy men during the test period. The instructions arc issued by the dental committee of the general medical medi-cal board of the Council of National Defense, which is the agencv for the medical and dental preparedness in this war emergency, acting under the direction of the Surgeon General's office, of-fice, headquarters war department, Washington, SD. C. Charts are to be filled out, showing a complete record of the oral condition condi-tion of each recruit. These records are to be filed with the secretary of the hoard for future reference. 13y thus accurately axamining the teeth of ea h registrant before he coos to a cantonment camp the government will be saved much trouble and money in numerous cases where certain men would later have to be sent home at government expense because of inadequate in-adequate and unsanitary dental conditions, condi-tions, and the resultant incapability of the recruit. |