"Bad oral health leads to bad health in other parts of the body." This is incorrect.
Early last century, for nearly 10 years, Dr Weston A Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". This book is still available and in it's 8th edition. I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know the truth. It would of course be impossible to repeat his study now because elements of the modern diet have largely replaced traditional diets in most cultures.
"Bad oral health leads to bad health in other parts of the body." This is incorrect.
Early last century, for nearly 10 years, Dr Weston A Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". This book is still available and in it's 8th edition. I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know the truth. It would of course be impossible to repeat his study now because elements of the modern diet have largely replaced traditional diets in most cultures.
Perhaps those on benefits should have them
docked if they have no record of their children attending a free Dental Clinic?
Same for everyone else too. If you don’t send your kids for free dental care then pay yourself.
Unfortunately it will be the kids that suffer, as usual.
I do believe that dental care is ridiculously expensive in NZ. Like doctors, we simply don’t train enough dentists.