The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-06-23
NECESSITY OF REPLACING ABB.
SENT TEETH

Why should absent teeth be replaced
if in your mind the condition of the
mouth is all right, the mastication
of food is done without any incon-
venience, and, as far as aesthetic eff
feet is concerned, conditions seem to
be propitious?
This is a problem as far as some
people are concerned. They seem to
think that it is all right to leave
spaces in the mouth, provided the
mouth is free from deposits and car
les decay and they can eat in COM
fort. Friends, would you believe me
when T say that you are not masti-
eating your food properly, neither
are you doing justice to your mouth
and it's parts, and the stomach, when
you leave space left by lost teeth.
The teeth were given you for a
specific purpose, namely to take food
in various sizes, cut it into small
pieces, grind it up and pass it on to
the stomach to further digestion
(some foods are partly digested in the
saliva of the mouth). The front
teeth, upper and lower, are called in
cisors. The term, incise, means to
cut. They are twelve in number, six
in the upper jaw and six in the low
err jaw. If you lose one or more of
the front teeth you impair the func-
tioning of them, hence one can not
bite or cut his food properly and &C.
curately. I won't say anything about
your appearance (use your own judg-
ment). For the sake of location the
incisors are also called the anterior
teeth. Then there are teeth just back
of the incisors called the posterior
or pre-molar and molar teeth. The
term, molar, comes from the Latin
meaning to grind, and that is how
the molar teeth function. They grind
the food into small particles before
passage into the stomach.
This grinding process is one of much
Importance, because if the food is not
properly prepared for the stomach
by grinding, the stomach will be
over-worked, because it will not only
have to break up the food as it
should have been done in the mouth,
but it will have to do it's own work
also land friends, you know how you
would kick if the work of someone
else was always thrown upon you):
You would not do it, and if you did
it would not be done in the proper
spirit and in many instances, it would
not be done properly. So it is with
the stomach. In time it grows tired
of doing somebody else's work and
then trouble starts. It does not func-
ton as it should and as a result you
have such disorders as gastritis, dys-
pepsia, heartburn, and indigestion,
and an undernourished body which
leads to other evils.
When the molar teeth are lost mas
tication cannot go on as it should.
Some people say that they can use
the teeth on one side when the teeth
are missing on the opposite side.
It is true that they can, but great
deal of harm is being done to the
mouth and teeth. The side that is
not used does not receive exercise
which is great necessity to the
mouth and teeth. Lack of exercise
renders an organ or a part, weak,
frail, and more susceptible to dis
ease. q used one entire article to
tell you the Importance of exercising
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YOU of the benefits that would be de.
rived therefrom. Hence it's bad
practice to use Just one side to mas
ticate food. When some of the mo-
lars or grinders are missing you &C
tually cannot masticate your food
properly and if that kind Of practice
is continued you will suffer. -
Nature tries her best to fill up
these spaces if you neglect to do So
She does this by shifting the teeth
toward the space. This shifting
causes irregularity Of the teeth. The
teeth move every which way and
have seen some mouths in deplor-
able state due to the, neglect Of re-
placing the absent teeth. This irreg-
ularity of the teeth favors pyor-
rhea and it impairs the process Of
mastication great deal.
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