Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-20

that the last census showed about forty [ thousand practitioners in this country | &lone: Back ef these dentists stand the manufacturers of their supplies and | equipment. There is no profession whose equipment, and tools, whose materials and sanitation, whose care and precision i and whose workmanship must be more | perfect to obtain good results Dental | ! colleges have become foremost educa- i tional institutions. Dental clinics and 1 1 dental research work are being conduct | | ed on extensive scales throughout the l country. 1 The twentieth century has brought ! great renaissance in dentistry. Research has proved that general health is depend ent to a large degree upon tooth health, l that the mouth is one of the three points at which systemic disease has it's incep- tion. The other two are the tonsils and the nasal cavity.
 Tooth Health Affects Body Health.
 Heart and kidney lesions, neuralgias, l rheumatism, headaches, "a whole body full of neuroses, deafness, blindness, gastritis" and scores of other physical as well as mental afflictions of humans have been found frequently to have their origin in abscessed or pyorrheaT teeth. The world has learned that general health and tooth health are so closely bound up that not even the wisest path ologist can say where one leaves off and the other begins. And so dentistry has become sdienoe-a very exact science. It has become highly specialized taking it's place in point of importance with the surgery of any other part of the body
 Intelligent people everywhere are sensing this changed attitude among i modern dentists with syrnpa thetic under standing. The great mass of the read ing public particularly, are awakened and adverse to continuing their former roles of walking poison factorles-cul- ture tubes for flourishing colonies of pus germs which work their way through the blood streams to attack heart, kid ney, liver or other vital organs. Even . little children. in the more progressive schools, know the significance of the T tooth brush drill.
 t The world has accepted a new word in the Anglo-Saxon dictionary, "Fletch- . erizh1g" It originally meant the . chewing of food forty times. Now it means thorough Inastifcation.
 Horace Fletcher, 9 member of the American Association for the Advance ! ment of Science, was at the age of 50, because of indigestion, given up to die. l He went to a dentist and was af1vised to ! have his teeth regulated so that 1e might . l properly Enasticate his food and obtain ! l loo per cent. digestion. Horace Fletcher q was treated and he regained his health :. The development Of X-ray photographic < work has brought dentistry to posi- # tioG1 of supreme importance among the ;, sciences. It has provided 9. means of as f certadning the condition of roots of the . teeth and barred hidden abscesses whicf r were poisoning human systems and giv.
 ing berth to all manners of tubeNcular rheumatic heart, skin, stomach and oth
 CT Ills. There have been so many 5 thousands of miraculous cures performe(
 by the dentist that one would think th' <, entire world would be thoroughly srous ,s ed to the dangers of neglect Of tn V teeth.
 y. AlIay Old FOrebOdings. d But probably less is known of the ben Id ef1ts of dentistry than any other science le Less than 25 per cant of the people 0 of this country have ever had any. dents ir attention. though every person shoul k have 3 thorough dental examination a 'n least twice a year. If the people c IS America gave their teeth the care the ly need the 40 GOO dentists now practicin
 would be utterly unable to handle th
 calls for dental service.
 Hand in hand with the tremeudou or improvement In dental technique ha It. has gone q transformation in dental ot ne fees. No longer are they gloom o- chambers which accentuate forebodine le of suffering anI excite tense or fraye O. nerves. The dentist of today has reC Eo ognized physchology and given 1t in = portant role in his practice. He ha
 found that little adjustments in SUI
 roundings create q happier and nor
 soothing atmosphere
 q don't dread going 10 a dentist lis ! I used to-" is confded frequently thes
 days.
 Patients are no braver than those c
 yestervear; they have less paiI-pra,
 ticaily no pain-to endure in Gents l treatment; the dental offices are nor
 attractive and soothing; harsh, disa
 greeable noises are now absent. Dentc
 engines run smoothly. Tools and equiT
 mert generally are in the best of COT
 dltion and the dentist uses them wit
 a syrnpathettc fitness. It is a new dent;
 science which cares for the patient an
 it's tests of courage are extremely iigi
 ones.
 Tn closing I would say that toda
 America has the leadership in dentistr
 Its equipment is most superb and i
 technique is ut7edualled and the day
 rapidly approaching when an awakent
 public will take the full benefits offer5
 by this really wonderful dental scienc
 suappy Singing.
 During the two hours that the Rota
 lsns were together Song Leader Alex M
 Nicol conducted 8 snappy musical pr