The Washington times., 1920-04-06
A Tooth More Important to Your
Health Than a Finger
There Are Too Many Dental Cripples as Result OF
Carelessness.

The president of the Chicago Dental Society speaking
State convention the other day. said: There is wave
Of tooth pulling in this country is sometimes necessary
to pull teeth pulling teeth leaves crippled mouth and
we are fast becoming nation OF dental crlpples
There is only real cause for ever having tooth
extracted and that is sometime in the past you have
to take proper care of it.
Teeth made for hard usage and Will stano IT, put
they have to have
And the boy or girl or who does not care
for them negects one OF the most necessary par OF MS
body.
It is well established medical fact that carries or tooth
decay as 1t is commonly called, begins in youth the
teeth kept sound and perfect until the full growth OF
the body reached they will remain sound through
out a normal length of lfe
Ten to fifteen minutes day Is not too much time 10
devote to the of your teeth.
You are very careful keep your face and hands clean
and to wash your body Have you any idea what dirty
mouth meansa mouth which Ignorant OF the use OF
toothbrush and proper cleansing preparations?
The scrapings from tooth which has not been cleaned
recently will show that in that dirty mouth there are more
than eight hundred million bacteria In clean mouth there
would not be more than eight million.
And these bacteria multiply at enormous rate. If
they allowed stay in the mouth that is if 1t is not
cleaned regularly and thoroughly they taken into the
stomach into the breathing passages and worst OF ALL into
the blood circulation by which they are carried to all parts
Of the body
Tooth infection is responsible for great variety of
troubles far removed from the mouth and teeth You read
the other day. perhaps that Vscount Grey who was Am
bassador from England to this country slowly going
blind Nothing helpful accomplished for him until It'll
found that his blindness resulted from dental trouble
When that was attended to his sight returned
Did you ever look in dogs mouth and examine his
eeth? White ivory Clean they had just been to al
entist.
The the dog his teeth He eats food that
needs chewing, and he chews it.
Human beings, in the first place, eat too much soft
food that does require masicaton and secondly they
do not chew the food that really should be chewed
Nne-tenths of the stomach troubles in the world are
caused by the failure the inability because of imperfect
teeth, to properly chew our food.
If you housekeeper, you know that you burn a.
smallszed coal in the kitchen range
You know too, that if you put in half hodful of coal
that you brought up from the furnace bin the fire would
Your stomach is just like the range 1t needs small
sized fuel.
In of the lower forms of animal life nature has
made provision for the renewal of the teeth AS fast as
falls out is out another takes its place
Perhaps there time when enjoyed t.is posi-
bty of renewal but at present. after he has lost his baby
teeth, there is set allowed him by nature and that
all he have
It behooves him. therefore, to take good of them
and to keep them as long as he
No would think of having finger cut off unneces
sary because he would know that when it ampuated
it gone for good and yet of his teeth good deal
more important to his health than of his fingers
One of the first things that should be taught child
to take of his teeth
He should have brush bottle of tooth powder or
wash paste and spool Of dental oss and he should
them all regularly and thoroughly.
More than 90 per cent Of the children in this country
have faulty teeth and considerable fraction of the under
nourshmen of children results from their inability their
failure to properly chew their food
Exercise your teeth.
If once a day man had to eat tough piece of meat
ne would keep his teeth longer and better.
Of course you will not eat tough meat when you can
get tender the next best thing to chew the tender