The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-10
ORAL Hygiene
REPORT GIVEN
By DR. EPENG
rteresting Survey Made at
Afternoon Session Of
Dental Meeting

Ths report OF the oral hygiene
sommittee Of the West Virginia
te Dental Society was submit.
rcd 10 the state convention OF the
West Virginia State Dental Society
fhis afternoon by Dr.. 2. g. EpliuH,
chairman. In connection with this
report an Interesting report was
read from Miss N. NJ. Elbon, direc:
~ 81 the Kanawha County Dental
Clinic 4
The report, which reviews the
VOL Q the Mcdowell County Dem
tat Clinic, follows:
az was the intention OF this com.
t1ittee 70 have an address on Oral
HyEiepe' given before. each teach
B institute throughoutE the state
last fall when the schools opened
but speakers were only secured for
til following 'places:s Fairmont.
Mprgantowp, fClarksburg, West
Union, H~arrisyille, Center Point,
Buckhanron, PhiIippl, Sutton. Fix.
mi, Parsons, Webster Springs, Lo-
Huntington, Clay Court House.
Lfwis County, Putnam, Lincoln,
Mcdowell, Kanawha, .!Greenbrier,
Barbour. Gilmer, Webster. Pendle.
tons Grant, Tucker, Mflgo and
Hkrppshire Countless
a complete teport.of this work
whsanot made TO this committee
IA we believe that other Institutes
dyfre addressed which were not re
tipfted, neither was a report made
bsthe speakers TO the above named
Aeiitutest but the following were
me Of the speakers on this work:
pr. @. II. Neill, DR.. H. K. Ru-
per, DR.. c. w. Wise1Dt. r G. Jen.
nings; DR.. Henshaw; Or. Farms.
worth; DR.. w. @. Yaumeter, DR..
Babb, DR.. B. ]. Ferell, DR.. L. J..
Walker, Miss N. M. aE1bon, Miss
Ridenour, Miss Van Ripper.
THE Mcdowell County Dental
Clinic has done the following work
during the past year:
Two hundred class room talks
on Oral Hygiene have been given
the schools throughout the coun.
Two hundred Illustrated lectures.
have been given TO schools with
teachers and parents present.
sTwenty.nine abnormal fraenums
shaye been removed by knife and
Electric cautery. 10 o.
asEight reservations OF the incisel
ends Of anterior teeth. which mad
been broken, by one child, IN the
shirt OF fun, striking another child
While It was drinking at sanitary
drinking fountain found ins al,
school buildings.
aTwenty-five reservations OF
broken anterior teeth which. were
caused by basketball
sSeyen reservations Of broken
ANTERIOR teeth caused by baseball.
Fifteen reservations Of broken
anterior teeth caused by other
.ttaumatlc injuries.
.aThirteen cases Of Trench Mouth.
averaging ten treatments to each
case.
aFour hundred cases Of gingivt
itfs, one hundred cases Of ulcera-
tive sgingiyitis, about twenty cases
ofIspical abscess, treated by cleo.
tFo tberophy (Ionizationi, three
hundred cases OF root canal treat.
snaent.
.We have treated twenty grave
,cases Of assesses where patients
came to US after the abscess had
either broken OF been lanced extor.
nally.
yTwenty thousand bulletins have
been issued free Of charge to the
school children and parents.
Eight hundred, pamphlets en-.
aitied milk, the Master Carpen.
ter,ss issued by ohiId's Health Or
ganisation Of America. have been
delivered torthe parents OF chill
8dren suffering from malnutrition or
under development
about five thousand mouth by.
giene songs aud ilngles have been
distributed TO the school children
sof the county.
AMoregthap twelve hundred tooth
brushes have been given to the
ohildren and several hundred havs
bSen sold 10 them at thssmall cost
ten cents where they wished to
Many sample boxes OF tooth
taste furnished to us by the Col.
cate company have been given to
the children by the staff OF the
aental clinic and the school teach.
Two thousand pasteboard pos.
ters have been used around the
chool buildings in the interest OF
mouth hygiene.
five baby clinics have been
held, where the children under
school age were taken by the moth.
efs TO be examined and directions
given to the mothers relative to
heir diet and care Of the moth
and teeth. The babies were care
eiily charted and the charts flea
be referred to atJlater clinics,
W. have all the children in the
sehoots charted and keep the charts
rom year to year and add all work
done each year.
Many articles concerning the
dental clinic. and. results OF the
York have been sent to the Blue
held Daily Telegraph. our nearest
daily paper and the Mcdowell Re.
order. our county paper, by par.
cnts. teachers aud Others interest.
ed in this work and copies OF same
have been sent to many health or.
Limitations and dentists who have
aBked for information relative to
the work OF the Clinic and stats.
tics OF same, among which were
the dental clinic at Rochester.
MINI, and other good organiza