Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-07-18
GETTING WISDOM TEETH.

!, m ouths and teeth since the widespread
report of General Grants pecu'iar dis
ease and the various causes ascribed for
it." remarked dentist to the Chicago
News. "The majority of persons have
been prone to give little heed to any
disarrangement of their mouths, dental or
otherwise, and to pass it over, even for
years, as something merely uncomfortable
and moi important to the general health"
Concerning teeth cutting he said
THE upper wisdom teeth are usually
eruptcd without difficulty, but those OF
the lower jaw often occasion considerable
disturbance, and are frequently, especially
with males, the reason of various obscure
nervous affections. Crowding is the
cause of the most trouble with these teeth,
which are known as the third molars,'
the space between the second molars and
the upper right portions of the jaw being
insufficient to permit the tooth to come
through readily. The inflammation which
ensues frequently causes lump to form
at the place where the jaw reac hes the
throat. This is called fungus excres-
ence,' and usually has to be cut out.
Sometimes simply lanclng the gum and
letting out the blood Will give relief
The record of troubles caused by the at
tempt of wisdom tooth to push itself
out into the society of an already crowded
arch is manifold. They are sometimes
very slow in accomplishing the job, and
I've known youths and young men wh"
were not in good health for two or three
years, from no other cause than cutting
their wisdom teeth. In the cases of some
exceptionally susceptible and sensitive in-
dividuaIs, they have occasloned DEATH"
what is the average age of cutting
wisdom teeth2"
"Any period between sixteen and forty
five. The most critical period is usually
at the ages OF SIX, twelve and seventeen.
although few persons cut wisdom teeth
until over twenty People suffer more IN
later years from the stupidity OF their
parents and the lack of attention they
give to their teeth from the ac0s "t six 10
seventeen than from any other rau'r.
Now, the six year Old liars are the larg
r4t teeth IN the mouth, Ind are very i'm
portant. They sh all never he allowed
to decay il possible IT, prevent it. Even
# they cannot he permanently saved, they
should by all means he retained until the
child is between ten and twe.ve years old.
Blu, if hey cannot tie kept there are rea-
sons why they should be extracted at this
Particular period. The want OF proper
year old molars is one of the principal
causes which occasion most people to
Jose part or all of their teeth before they
are 40. Why2 Oh, the effects of their re-
moval are so many that can't give them
in detail. Their removal rohs the arch
of support, just ns taking stave from a
barrel would. and. therefore it must col
laps. sooner or later. II people haven't
good teeth they can: masticate t cir
food sufficiently Many persons don't do
so who have the teeth. Indigestion is,
OF course. the result. Indigestion is our
prevailing malndy, and 1t has its origin,
eight times out of ten, in some trouble
with tho teeth. either nervous or owing
to decay of the dental apparatus. The
pressure exerted upon teeth during mas
tication is essential to their healthy con-
dition. They are strengthened, the same
as any other organ, by exercise"
"What is the most common disease OF
the teeth"
"Tartor deposit. 1t resembles cream
of tarter, which gathers from time to time
and adheres to the teeth - that does 10
the side of the cask. 1t occasions heap
of mischief. The only treatment tor it is
thorough removal. 1t is very destructive,
frequently eating furrows across the
teeth Just below the margin of the gum.
1t accumulates the most rapidly at night,
for as the mouth is then ut rest there is
nothing to interfere with its attachment
ns there is when the fluids are in motion.
The acids OF the mouth are more active
ai night, too. Therefore teeth should al-