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IN the course of Prof. E. Mellanby's researches on rickets in dogs, which led to the discovery of the antirachitic vitamin, now known as vitamin D, it was noticed that defects in calcification were not confined to the long bones, but occurred also in the jaws and teeth of animals maintained on defective diets. Mrs. Mellanby followed up this point, and during the last decade has published numerous papers upon the influence of the diet upon the teeth, and also upon the relationship between dental structure and disease. A detailed account of this work is in preparation, and is being published in three parts: the present volume is the first of the series and is being followed by Part II., upon dental structure in other animals than the dog, and upon the production of dental disease, and by Part III., upon the structure of human teeth and the relationship between structure and caries.
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Medical Research Council. Special Report Series No. 140: Diet and the Teeth, an Experimental Study. Part 1: Dental Structure in Dogs. By May Mellanby. Pp. 308 + 109 plates. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1929.) 17s. 6d. net.
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Diet and the Teeth1. Nature 125, 604–606 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125604a0
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