HIGHER REACHES ANSWERS: Oral History: Remember the shrewd gold-toothed amahs? [June 20, 2017]
1. (i) age
(ii) deteriorate
(iii) symptoms/signs
2. Losing one’s teeth is just one of many things that will happen to the human body when a person gets older.
3. i) F ii) NG iii) T
4. If you had to run away, you had something worth a lot of money in your mouth
5. There were a lot of Japanese sex workers in port cities. They were willing to pay to fix their teeth so that they wouldn't lose customers.
6. C
7. Most large provincial towns in Asia had at least one Japanese dentist.
8. photographic studios, restaurants and hairdressers; people thought they were spies
9. They couldn't get accreditation, but the law was less strict in Kowloon Walled City.
10. There was a shortage of professional, affordable dental treatment in Hong Kong. Now a majority of dentists who work in Hong Kong are trained there.