130 



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sary to take the children to a city for dentistry. Dental care in rural regions 

 is notoriously even harder to obtain than a physician's services. 



Unfilled cavities 



The condition of the teeth of all the white children of Carver and South- 

 wick, as indicated by the number of permanent teeth having unfilled cavities, 

 is shown in Tables 17 and 18, and separately for children of native and mixed 

 parentage in Tables 19 and 20. The younger children, of course, did not yet 

 have many permanent teeth. Nevertheless, since the proportions of younger 

 children are essentially the same in the two towns, the conclusions which 



Table 17. Unfilled Cavities in Permanent Teeth 

 of 168 Carver Children 



Table 18. Unfilled Cavities in Permanent Teeth 

 of 232 Southwick Children 



