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...everyone in the U.S. over the age of 15 had his teeth fixed, the bill would come to $3,860,000,000 ($47.19 a head). Such was the estimate which Dr. Raymond M. Walls, chairman of the American Dental Association's economics committee, presented to the dentists' annual convention in Houston last week. Other dismal figures on U.S. teeth...
...According to A.D.A.'s past president, Dr. Arthur Hastings Merritt of Manhattan, the incidence of tooth decay today is as bad as it was 100 years ago, even though dental care is better. Said he: "People spend $1,600,000,000 a year on tobacco, and this is $200,000,000 more than they spend on all medical care, including surgery and dentistry...
...cannot be handled except in camps similar to the triple-C layouts. England, faced by a like problem, in a test case last year took one thousand rejectees and found that 850 could pass as one hundred per cent fit for military service after twelve months of medical and dental care supplemented by open air, exercise, and adequate food. A similar program should be developed from the president's as yet nebulous scheme...
...final reply to those who criticize the new plan on the grounds of "too much education" is given by Leroy M. Miner, Dean of the School, in a recent article in the Dental School Alumni Bulletin...
...plan, he points out, "will succeed or fail according to the way it serves the interests of he pubic, for, after all, dentists and dental schools exist only because they satisfy pubic need. Dentistry, dental schools, and the new plan at Harvard will exist only so long as they fulfill that need...