The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1889-01-17
IN THE DENTISTS CHAIR.
Some Professional Advice as to the Car,
of tie Teeth.


Some Professional Advice as to the Car
of tile Tceth.
The other day sat down in my dentists
chair, says Boston writer, com ror. abb,
knowing tha. what was about 10 be don,
would rot be at all painful or annoying
and while he was ge.tiny reGly his variou
| Instruments, asked inquiringly:
''Bostorians have very good teeth as
rule, haven't theys''
The dentist smiled? "Tceth, as a rule
are rather good than bad the world over, il
these days" he SAIL ''People are gradually
waking up 10 the idea that it is never to,
soon to attend to children's teeth, and as
rule they come in.o our hands at SO earl,
an age that we are abls to correct any
Irregularities in grow h. and to look af:el
,hom SO carefully at regular intervals that j,
fine set is assured. A baby should have ;
tooth brush as soon as he has tooth, ald i
SHOULD be used, TOO, carefully and judi
c'ouiy, always once, and generally twice q
day. First teeth very often decay and
need filing JUS. as mu h as the second, enc
one can not be TOO par r.icular about these
.hings''
doe. che second SCI usually come as il
ought to come, without any assistance from
dentist" said ], anxiouIy, thinking OF
my infant nephew, who was just then cut.
ting his eye teeth CT tho first set and do
c;dedly taking time by the forclock.
He smiled again. 'Well, should say ii
is always safer and wiser to consult the
brotherhood, observed lie; then there is
no risk. Although those teeth which grow
crookediy can I've made to take their proper
place after q time, with a little attention
they como properly on their first ap-
pearance, and a good deal of needless
trouble and perhaps suffering would he
saved. Motnrn dentistry, rs you well
know, works miracles. The only thing it
hasn't succeeded in doing is to introduce a
third set of teeth to grow, and fear that
il something which science will never
achieve. But there is no reason why every
one should not have at least fair set OF
te,th which, with proper care, will tids
them safely over a natural existence"
''What do you mean by proper care.
Brushing frequently and coming ofteaer TO
your
'sThey ought to he brushed after every
meal, CT certainly at night and morning.
But one cannot be too careful us to the sort
Of tooth powder one uses l very often see
powdered charcoal advocated by newspaper
writers and quacks. Now. nothing is more
injurious to the teeth than powdered Char
ccal. It is in reality carbon, the hardest
substance known, of the same nature pre-
c.sely as the diamond. Its constant use can
not help wearing off the enamel and other
wise seriously affecting the teeth, and, ex-
cept in rare cases and seldom, it should
never lie put upon brush or into the
mouth. OF course each dentist has his own
particular powder which iie advocates and
advises in preference to all others, but this
is a question upon which his opinion should
most assuradly he esked. II he is con-
suited often, and allowed to examine the
teeth at regular stated intervals, the care
of them will I've far less painful, and they
VIII naturally he kept in much better
order.
people are apt to be negligent perhaps
because they dread the discomfort of the
dentists chair. Ii they only knew, how
ever, how very much better ones own
teeth are than any artificial sct, they
would never hes state about preferring any
amount of filling to pulling out. A good
dentist never advises the latter alternative
unless it is absolutely unavoidable. False
teeth, regret to say, are rather fashic,,n-
Tie IN certain e...ss Of hitnanity-tile
lower class, whose principal faculty is thu
initiative. Mrs Jones. who really nael Is it,
has all her upper teeth drawn, and Is pro-
vidcd with new set, white, even, and of
the finest porcelain. Thereupon Mrs.
Brown, whose mo!ars and bicuspids are
sound as a trivet, seized with pangs of
envy, goes and does likewise, ami regrets
her folly ever after. But the decd is done,
cnd teeth onco out can never be put back
That is an axiom everybody ought to re-