Sentences with phrase «tooth decay rates»

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This holds whether we are thinking of how to grow more grain in the tropics, reduce the birth rate, control inflation, stimulate economic growth, get rid of tooth decay, provide better health care, find some way to turn garbage into a useful resource, reduce air pollution, win the next election, avoid war with Russia, develop human potential, extend the length of life, or find a cure for cancer.

Jason Armfield, a senior research fellow at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, says the association is investigating the links between bottled water and the increasing rates of childhood tooth decay.

For each response they identified a realistic better and worse case scenario for health, by estimating the likely impact on rates of obesity, diabetes and tooth decay.

They add that the study did not look at the time lag between implementation and effect of the changes, but suggest that improvements in tooth decay would be seen first, followed by reduced rates of obesity and cases of type 2 diabetes.

Compared with similar children without early preventive dental care, children receiving early preventive dental care from a dentist had more frequent tooth decay - related treatment (20.6 percent versus 11.3 percent), a higher rate of visits and higher annual dental expenditures ($ 168 versus $ 87).

When we look at native populations with low rates of tooth decay, these populations had 4x the minerals in their diets and 10x the fat soluble vitamins.

As Dr. Weston A. Price (a dentist) found and detailed in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, there were cultures throughout the world who had perfect teeth despite no access to dentists or modern toothpaste, while similar cultures with different diets had very high rates of tooth decay.

Not all native diets were equal, however: those in which animal foods were virtually absent, for example, produced much lower rates of tooth decay than found on modern, refined diets, but much higher rates of tooth decay than found on diets containing a significant amount of animal foods.

Price found the same rate of tooth decay among the Dinkas in Jebelein, Sudan, who similarly subsisted on fish and cereals (p. 150).

These include the Chewya at Kisumu, Kenya (p. 141), who subsisted on «large quantities of fish... together with cereals and sweet potatoes,» and suffered from tooth decay at a rate of only 0.2 percent.