Your Teeth: Their Past, Present, and Probable Future
By (Author) Peter J. Brekhus
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st January 1941
United States
Paperback
292
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
Your Teeth was first published in 1941. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Are your teeth perfect If they are, you are one in a hundred, for 99 per cent of the population suffers from some denta
The author was the first recipient of the William J. Gies award from the American College of Dentists for a wisely planned series of scientific inquiries into the composition of sound teeth and the incidence of dental caries.Professor Brekhus served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota for 31 years, taught postgraduate courses in Norway and Finland, and was a member of Sigma Xi and other scientific fraternities in the United States and in several foreign countries.The author writes, My main objective is the enlightenment of the people as a whole who for decades have been told a great many things about their teeth that are not so. The book will be helpful to public health educators and social workers. It should challenge dentists to look upon their problems from a broader point of view.His book gives suggestions for future research and a program to meet this most pressing public health problem.