Show defective teeth cauce undernourishment defective teeth in the school children of utah are the chief cause of malnutrition or under nourishment and in some districts of the state the percentage of children with bad teeth runs a trifle over 90 per cert declared reber heber J sears head bead cf the department of hygiene and preventive medicine at the university of utah it takes the average child with defective teeth six months longer to complete his eight grades in scho I 1 than it does the normal child dis aas id d tors borss Is or adenoids aden also retail the child in his studies at sc school hool as ac cording to statistics at the university any church or any other organization of the state may receive the benefit of health lectures sent out by the university without cost dr sears is now devoting all his time to lecturing on vital problems of health and social problems connected with health already this fall he has reached nearly people twenty four fou other lecturers mostly physicians are also available for these extension health lectures furnished by the university U of LT news liti bureau reau |