1959 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 47-54
“Miss Dental Contest in Tokyo” in the 1957 was held under the auspices of the Tokyo Dental Association and the Sankei Shimbun, and through -certain bodies' co-operation. 33 candiates of “Miss Dental” of wards and districts recommended by each Dental Association were examined to-gether on May 30th at the Tokyo Chub-Health Center. The individual examination table of the candidates who gathered on this occasion were statistically arranged and compared with the data of those of the 1956 which were able to be compared with.
(I) The ages of candidates were from 19 to 25, and the average was 20.8 years old. In ages, 19 were numerous, and in profession, they were mostly business girls and clerks, age width being similar to that of the 1956.
(II) The examination results of the candidates, gained through each examiner concerned:
1) The 1st results examined by the hands of 10 examiners:
(i) In general, the state of teeth, 100 got full marks and the extent of the marks gained was 60-100. All the average marks were 82.8 -worse that of the 1956.
(ii) As for the state of dental caries, 200 won full marks, and the extent of marks was 130-200, and all the average marks were 189.3 -worse than that of the 1956.
(iii) In general, of the state of the oral conditions examined, 100 took marks, and all the average marks were 84.8-worse than that of the 1956.
2) The 2nd results examined through 8 dentists and 2 doctors:
(i) In culture, speech, movement and sanitary common-sense, 100 won full marks, and the extent of marks was 50-100, and all the average marks were 85.3-better than that of the 1956.
(ii) In the present condition of the disease of the subjects, 100 won full marks, the extent of marks was 70-100, all the average marks being 85.0.
(iii) As to growth, granted that 50 was full marks, the extent of marks 25-50, all the average marks 46.8-better than that of the 1956.
(iv) In nourishment, 50 got full marks, the extent of marks was 35-40, all the average marks were 46.3.
3) The results of the special examination which were done in 13 candidates who had given better marks in the 1st and 2nd examinations: they were examined by the 10 representives of the auspices of certain bodies. Granted that 100 was full marks, the extent of marks was 50-100, the average were 83.2-similar to that of the 1956.
4) The examination results of those who were tried in the 1st examination, were almost equal to that of the 1956.
(III) As above-mentioned, in the 1st examination, the result was rather inferior to that of the 1956, and in the 2nd one, it was better than that of the 1956 and in the special examination, it was equal to that of the same.
Now, the difference between the 1956 and the 1957, and that between the 1st and 2nd examinations, were both due to the differnce of the candidates and, to a partial change of the examiners. It would be an interesting subject to attribute the cause of this difference to the qualities of the candidates who joined the examinations and, to the way of marking a standard of them. And the special examination results of the 13 excellent candidates and the 1st examination results of the candidates, who were qualified to take in the special examination, were both the same ones in 1957, and though all the candidates were examined by the hands of diffrent examiners, but as it was only a partial change then, the very cause of the results in the 1st and 2nd examintions, should necessarily be attributed to the side of the candidates on this occcasion.
