Excerpt from Dental Diseases in Relation to Public HealthThe three communications which go to make up this little book were written in response to requests (1) to present a report on Dental Diseases in Relation to Public Health at the recent International Medical Congress, (2) to open a discussion on Dental Hygiene in Infancy and Childhood at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Sanitary Institute at Exeter, and (3) to open a discussion on Children and Dental Disease before the State Medicine Section of the British Medical Association at their Annual General Meeting, 1912.They are now published together in order to try to bring home to physiologists and others the importance of a knowledge of the physiology of oral hygiene, a subject which, notwithstanding its overwhelming importance at the present day, is altogether neglected in text-books of physiology. Why such considerations with regard to the physiology of the mouth and teeth have been omitted in the teaching of medical students need not concern us, a change must soon come when the terrible harm resulting from such an attitude towards the mouth and teeth is revealed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.