THE EFFECTS OF DIETARY DEFICIENCIES UPON THE ORAL STRUCTURES

Abstract
The authors review the effects in man and animals, of deficiencies in vits. A, B, C, D, and E and of mineral elements (total salt, Ca, P, Fe, and Mg), and also of replacement therapy, hypervitaminoses, fluorosis, excess carbohydrate, and the physical character of the diet upon odontogenic epithelium, enamel, dentin, pulp, alveolar bone, gingivae, salivary glands, tooth eruption, local tumor formation, and susceptibility to disease; also the influence of pregnancy and starvation; 286 references.