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According to the March 1941 issue of the American Dental Association, by the time she graduated from high school in 1941, an American girl had an average of 9.1 cavities, but her brother averaged only 7.7. Dentists were at a loss to explain this difference. Even the fact that a girl's permanent teeth grew in about five months earlier than a boy's could not account for the disparity. Although women took better care of their teeth than men, they still retained their unenviable lead in tooth decay in later life.
Source: "Biting Odds for the Male," Newsweek (17 March 1941) 65 George H Copeland, "Wanted More Monkeys," The New York Times Magazine (8 December 1940) 25
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