Milford chronicle., 1921-02-11
IMPACTED TEETH

Impacted teeth are the teeth that
cannot come in properly on account
of some change that has taken place
in the formation of the jaws. When a
tooth has started to grow nothing will
stop it's development. If it cannot
grow up into the mouth, where it be-
longs, it must grown downward into
the jawbOne. This frequently results
in immense pressure on some of the
nerves and blood vessels and may
cause grave disorders to some part
of the nervous system, sometimes re-
sulting in insanity.
It is a difficult matter to determine
the real cause for many of the things
from which the human race is suf-
fering. Many of these troubles evil
IDENTIFY originated many centuries ago.
Conditions of the human system as
we find them today are a direct result
of some biological or sociological
change which started during some
great crisis in the life Of man.
Some radical change in our mode
of living, we are told, caused the
atrophy Of a second intestine to what
is now the appendix.
ties of civilization. Constipation is
said to be one of the results Of mans
assuming an upright position in walk
ing.
The foreshortening Of the human
jaws is due to the lack of their use,
and the result is deformed and i'm
pacted wisdom teeth. When we do
not use our jaws it is unnecessary
for them to be so strong, and the pen
atty is impacted molars.
Primitive mans mOlar teeth in
crease in size from the first molar
back, while ours decrease in size. In
time the third molar or wisdom tooth
will, no doubt, become a thing of the
past.
Wild animals living in their natural
state have little tooth trouble. Pre-his-
toric man lived in the same way and
was undoubtedly free from these NAL
aides at that time. Animals in their
wild state live on simple, natural,
raw food; while we live on cOmpli-
Gated diet of soft cooked food, and
any change in diet or environment
causes a change in the anatomical
structure of the animal, in time.
The greatest crisis in mans de-
velopment evidently came when he
discovered fire and began to cook his
food Had he continued to live on
simple raw diet he may never have
had some of his present trouble.
Is it not also possible that he would
never have attained the mental devel-
opments attained at the present time?
Some authorities on diet advocate
a return to a diet largely composed
of raw foods. 1t is reasonable to sup
pose that a radical change in diet
will force a multitude of digestive ad-
justments which finally result in
changed tissues and secretions, even
going so far as to cause changes in
the hardest tissues of the bOdy-the
teeth.
Wild animals, domesticated by man
and fed upon a different diet, often
develop decayed teeth and pyOrrhea
and other mouth diseases.
If it is true that soft, prepared food
that deprived man of his ability to re-
sist disease, then he must return to a
natural diet in order to regain his
natural lost immunity to disease, or
resort to some other artificial meas
ure to overcome that effect of his pres
ent form of diet. It is obvious that
no sensible man will ever return to
hard, raw food. There is the question
whether the average city man, espec-
tally, would take sufficient exercise to
digest such food.
AS long as man eats soft starches
and sugars they will cause the teeth
to decay, unless he uses an artificial
means to keeping them clean.
Oral hygiene will go a long way to-
ward preventing those diseases that
are caused by our present mode of
living.
A full return to natural conditions
would probably do the same thing, but
who wants to be monkey and swing
by his tail from the limb of tree?
Would we not prefer impacted teeth?
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