The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-11-26
Clean Teeth.

The following interesting paper
was read by DR.. o. B. Love at the
recent Teachers Institute, and is
published by request:
Negatively teeth are not clean
because of neglect. In many
cases a number of conditions can
justly be considered as factors in
non-clean teeth.
First.-In primary causes, is 1t
too personal, or is it too broad n
statement to say that we are in
different in our personal habits?
Yet we are of the many; and So
GEOLOGY discloses the fact that we
are not only ignorant as to habits
of hygiene prophylans, but that
our ignorance is strongly en-
trenched behind the twin crimes
of indifference and carelessness Z.
Second .-Anatomists declare
that the admiXture and blending
of a variety of nationalties is re-
sponsible for many anatomical
Irregularities. Since it is rot
strange that generic expressions
appear in the development and
position of the teeth, giving It's
many incongruous productions in
size and position, thus initiating
against easy cleaning.
third Il mention decay as a
cause for teeth being unclean.
And this is true whether from the
fact that many teeth are imper-
fectly developed and hence pre-
disposed to decay, or as a result
of our persistence in the applica-
ton of ignorance and carelesness.
We deduce therefore that gener-
ally teeth are not clean because of
carelessness, Irregularities and de-
cay.
If it be true that mankind
learns best and most rapidly IN
the school of experience, we have
before us much to accomplish be-
fore we shall be IN that better and
happier condition of having clean
teeth. This is so for we are yet
i'll the practical experience of
learning that decayed teeth give
serious troubles, thereby forcing
us to attend to them whether we
wish to do so or not, and few,
and very few they be, are begin
ing to give crooked teeth some
study-leaving the vast majority
of us insiduously applying our
selves TO indifference and care
lessness.
The disadvantages or evils at.
tending unclean teeth are many.
First. constitutions inhuen.
ces are bad when the teeth are un-
clean, decayed or irregular be.
cause such conditions modify the
use of teeth.
Second. The residue Of food
remaining in the mouth and the
passing of this residue into the
stomach in varying intensities OF
poison modities both the diges.
ton and nutrient energy.
Third. teeth depend
ent upon irregularities and de-
grees of decay often become re-
sponsible nervous lesions-sucl
as impaired Use Of the muscles OF
mastication. headache, neuralgia,
eye troubles and occasionally in
tluencing the ear, nose and throat
Fourth.-Tne residue of fooC
remaining III the cavities of de-
cayed teeth, and between anC
around unclean teeth, furnish O
condition or favorable media fol-
the lodgment, growth and rapiC
increase of very large class Of
low-grade germ life, very poison
Gus and injurious when taken in
to the stomach.
This disadvantage is easily I'M
derstood when you consider the
many serious results from using
bad water, poor food, and the
contracting of contagious dis
eases by using drinking cups o.
glasses used by those who have
the disease.
Fifth.-ls a specific injury tc
the teeth themselves from lack O.
cleanliness, in that decay results
from food lodging and remaining
between and around the teeth
In the decomposition of food pro
ducts thus left about the teeth
certain active acids are formed
which act as solvents of thu
enamel and tooth structure. Al
the elements of the tooth are thus
dissolved and decomposed, decom
posing food products are added
and this mass becomes the home
and breeding place of many pois
onous germs.
These facts not only explain tn,