THE EFFECT OF DEFECTIVE DIETS ON TEETH

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From its inception, dental literature has contained many statements associating food habit with oral disease. Dietary errors or excesses are said to be predisposing, if not active, causes of dental caries and gingival lesions. It is also implied that these diseases do not exist in races or individuals with correct food habits, the inference being that a proper dietary regimen will prevent oral pathologic conditions. Tangible evidence of what constitutes a correct diet is not offered by the donors of these hypotheses, which, when applied in daily routine, are not practical in the individual, whatever they may been masse. We are told that races living under primitive dietary conditions are free from oral disease: the Eskimo is said to be immune for the reason that he is essentially carnivorous, using little carbohydrate food; and the Maori, because he consumes quantities of carbohydrate and little protein food. In the midst

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