Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-06
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
(By DIR. Arthur NJ. Huntcr.)

A few years ago DR.. Mayo, one of
Americas foremost surgeons, SAID
that the next step in preventive
medicine must be made by the
dentists. In line with this prophecy
the new campaign for mouth n.y.
giene aims to teach three things:
1. How much damaged done to
the general health of the body by
an unclean mouth, with teeth BAD
ly broken down, large cavities or
inflamed gums.
2. Proper methods of correcting
mouth diseases.
8. How to prevent dental dis
ease.
Very few persons realize that the
three vital sources of life, food,
water and air, are affected by
mouth conditions. No one can I'VE
without these three things. inc
government spends enormous sums
TO insure the cleanliness of tood
and water. Housewives see tha'
cooking utensils, china and cutlery
are washed so that the food may be
served clean. All the details OF
bringing pure food to the mouth
are carefully looked after, but
when it passes the lips the FOOD is
abandoned and left to its fate foi
most mouths are unclean and tood
however clean before, becomes
contaminated after it passes the
| lips.
How can the mouth best be kepl
clean and dental decay prevented
Here are four practical sugses'
| tons:
I. Have the mouth put in gooc
condition by a good dentist. 90 lC
the best man that you can una; !
is economy of health and pocket
hook to go to him often. Thr,e'
ar fotr fines a year should be TN
minimum. A.,
Q. X-ray examinations of IN
teeth should be made to ascertall
The conditions of root-fillings' am
tho condition Of bone surrouhullll
tha root-ends of the teeth, LOT
10 these areas that may cause syS
temic disturbances which VIII lo"e
resistance to disease. All teetl
with the pulps removed tnerVe
killed. must be held as susplclou
characters until proven ihnoceh,
THE lack of pain is not sate sig
of no infection. There may De
"blind" abscess, which only III
x-ray can discover. t., an,
3. Get your dentist to give ~
minute directions as to the pIJp ~,
wav to perform your mouth tolie,
II Is necessary to spend at l'as
three minutes every night ana eV
erv morning brushing your gun,
and teeth, in order to propel
cleanse them. That amount
fine and energy will give you D.
dividends in good health. Remen
ber n clean tooth will not deCa.
and a clean mouth will not poliu'
tho food. 80 orar he
cause sugar will cause the deca
III teeth more than any other vi
thing. Nature never intehded tne
We should use sugar in a conceL
t ~ form. but preferred to CIV
it to us in it's natural s.a1e nam
w. in fruits and vegetables. ~,
would like TO paraphase t tn,
we'll known quotation from l'o ,,no
Rurns. "Oh would the gift the go goo
cod give us to see our mou'h9
he dentist sees them" The del
list not only sees the unclea
month with inflamed gums, % o.
he sees the long chain of even u
namely, an unclean mouth, si ,ia
cavities, large cavities, '.pollut, y
|, Of food with digestive disturbance
, death of the tooth pulp, apsceS ~
at the end of the root, aesorl1t,u
Of the poison, lowered resistant
against disease. and finally oroNo
down health. H. hold
The, late Prof. Osler, who hel1
Mace at the head of the proles'l0
. of medicine, said oo
"You have one doctrine to preaJ,
} and YOU have to preach IL eai
i and late, in season and out Oh s Sc,
, SON. It is the gospel of clean,ih ~
J of the mouth, cleanliness Oh -
, teeth, cleanliness of the throa '
. These three things must be yo'
, text through life. Oral hysleile-
: the hygiene Of the mouth-hoo -
: single thing is more impor'am.
3 the public in the whole raheo
Y hygiene than that"