Briefly, my research supports the following conclusion: native-born Japanese who have been raised in Japan on a predominantly Japanese diet and have not been exposed to foreign languages, have oral structures that are uniform, and that vary significantly from individuals not similarly born, raised, fed or unexposed. Of course, my findings do not refer to any individual Japanese mouth; it is the relative proportions of Japanese oral structures that differs in a statistically significant way from those of foreigners. I must admit that at this stage my foreign sample is rather limited. Many prospective foreign subjects have been repelled by the thought of placing the Uni Oral Calibrator in their mouths. I am at present field testing versions of the UOC, shaped like doughnuts and hot dogs. which I hope foreigners will find more acceptable.
x 1000. This article is repulsive on so many levels. It's yet another "scientific" attempt to prove that Japanese are different from all other human beings and it's rife with hackneyed references to "unique Japanese culture" and how gaijin are so different. Let's face it: Japanese mouths are deformed because dentists, like other Japanese doctors, are inadequately trained, and because Japanese people tend not to place the same emphasis on dental hygiene that other cultures do.
