Mr President, I greatly appreciate the honour of being the Elsdon Storey Memorial Lecturer for 1994. In this Lecture I propose to examine some of the main characteristics of Storey's life and work, and them to apply them in a discussion of the future of children and dentistry. At the outset I have to say that my direct personal knowledge of Tony Storey was limited. I was never a work colleague of his, so I acknowledge the help of many of his colleagues and former graduate students in gaining an appreciation of his achievements and his complex character.