Social workers believe there are hundreds of girls like Jane who gave up life coals at an earlv age and retreated from the world. The story of primary teeth neg lect doesn't end with a lost per sonality. Well-functioning teeth are a. necessary part of a child's digestive apparatus, particularly I in a period of rapid growth and i development. With the capacity | to chew affected, proper foods j often cannot be eaten. Neglected primary teeth can be I a factory, too. in gum disease so ! prevalent in later life.

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