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WINFREY , JOHN HALDI, KATHERINE DICKEY BENTLEY AND MARY LOUISE LAW WITH THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OP DORIS RAMSEY Department of Physiology, Division of Basic Sciences in the Health Services, Emory University, Emory University, Georgia (Received for publication September 6, 1955) Recent studies appear to lend support to the ideas expressed some years ago by Mellanby ( '18, '23) that resistance to dental caries is related to the chemical structure of the teeth, which in turn is determined by dietary influences at the time of development. Sobel and Shaw (Sobel, '52) found that the molars of rats that had been fed a low calcium - high phos phorus diet in early life were nsiderably less susceptible to caries than the teeth of rats that had been fed a high calciumlow phosphorus diet. Earlier studies (Sobel, Rockenmacher and Kramer, '45a, b) had shown that the mposition of the diet is reflected in the blood serum and that the mposition of the bone is related to that of serum. Subsequent investiga tions (Sobel and Hanok, '48) on the growing incisor teeth of rats gave results similar to those obtained in the studies on bone. On the basis of these observations Sobel