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IN spite of the facts that there are more dental clinics, that many more people brush their teeth and that more dental treatment is practised to-day than ever in the world before, dental disease seems to be as prevalent as it has ever been, especially among civilized peoples. The experimental work of Mrs. Mellanby has shown that there is an intimate relationship between the diet and the structure of the teeth in both animals and man, and that there is similarly a close relationship between structure and liability to caries in man. It remained to be proved that the incidence and progress of the disease could be influenced by alterations or additions to the diet.
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Dental Caries and Diet. Nature 138, 956–957 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138956a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138956a0