Lucy Stock from Gentle Dental Care explains how sunshine aids our skin’s absorption of vitamin D, which is crucial for tooth development ...

As rickets is characterized by delayed growth, bone and teeth deformities, as well as the occurrence of pain, complete physical and dental examinations should be performed.

Rickets has been identified in a Neolithic skeleton from the Scottish island of Tiree, making it the earliest case of the disease in the United Kingdom. The nature of the grave itself - a simple ...

Often dubbed the "sunshine vitamin," Vitamin D plays a critical role in numerous bodily functions, far beyond just bone health. When our levels dip too low, a cascade of negative effects can occur, ...

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Rickets has long been considered a Third World disease, not seen widely in the United States since poignant photos captured the bent and bowed legs of malnourished children during the Great ...

Mellanby at first supposed that cereals increased the rate of growth of animals, and therefore increased the demand for the food factors necessary for the calcification of the bones and teeth.

Rickets, caused by too little vitamin D in the diet or too little exposure to the sun, has been documented by physicians for thousands of years. But its cause wasn’t fully understood until the ...

Rickets used to be the kind of condition that plagued city children put to work in factories during the Industrial Revolution, the Oliver Twists of 19th century England, who lived off gruel and ...