The teeth of pauper children / by Richard Denison Pedley.

  • Pedley, R. Denison (Richard Denison), 1857-1925.
Date:
[1893?]
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Credit: The teeth of pauper children / by Richard Denison Pedley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    SOFTOOL CFIFLDREN’S TEETH. ^Editorial in the “ British Journal of Dental Science,’^ Feb. 1st, 1893.] Among the Original Communications which are published in the present issue will be found a statement of some facts with regard to the teeth of certain School Children, and we recommend a careful study of Mr. Denison Pedley’s paper to oui readers, many of whom have doubtless noted the references to the general subject of children’s teeth, now becoming’ so frequent. The matter is one of growing import- ance and is destined before long to be still more commented upon. We are all aware of the good results which must accrue if early attention is paid to children’s teeth, and the paper in question does not put the case too strongly. Mr. Pedley is one ot a band of workers who, commencing with Mr. Fisher, of Dundee, have within the last few years put on record the tabulated results of a series of careful investiga- tions based upon an actual inspection and examination of children’s mouths. That such a systematic aggregation of statistics would furnish results interesting from a scientific and professional aspect must be apparent ; but there is also a public point of view from which the figures themselves must be regarded, and it is for this reason that we now draw attention to the subject. Mr. Pedley’s statement of facts is apparently plainh'^ worded, without many technical terms j and apart from the many strictly detailed points of interest to be evoked from such an extensive and comprehensive examination, we find in this table much matter for serious reflection. The danger of building up statistics on insufficient numbers is of course to be remembered, but in this case such an objection does not seem valid. Further, it appears reason- able to think that the difference between pauper children and those in Board Schools is not so great as to prevent deductions being drawn as to what may be expected should