Dental Researches Emphasize
Vitamin D Need

International Jl. of Orthodontia, Oral Surgery and
Radiography (Sept. 1929): “The importance of adequate
nutrition during the period of growth of teeth and bones is
well recognized. It has, however, not been so well recog-
nized that fully developed teeth and bones may also be
profoundly influenced as the result of inadequate nutrition.
Teeth and bones are not fixed, inert tissues, like the struc-
tural iron of a skyscrap2r, but very live body tissues which
can be maintained properly only when the nutritional needs
are adequately met.”
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The British Dental Journal ( July 16, 1928); “... vita-
min D... enables the ameloblasts and odontoblasts to make
use of the circulating calcium and phosphorus and other
salts and so to incorporate them in the developing dentine
and enamel.”

Edinburgh Medical Jl. (March, 1929): “... although
the calcium and phosphorus of the diet are essential for
tooth formation, their importance is secondary, because the
extent to which they can be utilized depends on the presence
of vitamin D and the cereal factor.’’ (Note: Certain cereals
are believed to exert an anti-calcifying effect.)

U. S. Public Health Service Broadcast No. 357: “The

work of preventing dental disease should begin with the

diet of the mother even before the birth of the child...
‘* |. in preventing disease of the teeth, ‘cleanliness is good;

diet is vital.’ ”
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A leading Austrian authority on metabolism: “Vita-
min D fosters assimilation of calcium and phosphorus, the
elements necessary to build and keep teeth strong and firm.
This vitamin is present in irradiated fresh yeast.”