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Show Karly Attention to the Teeth. About the sixth earop soon after, four permanent molar or double teeth maky their appearance, says a writer who calls the attention of parents to the importance of early attention to children's teeth. It is generally supposed that these four teeth belong to-the first set, and if they decay and are removed they, will come again. This is a mistaken idea. They are permanent perma-nent teeth, and if lost will be lost forever. No teeth that come after the sixth year are ever shed. At twelve years the second set is usually complete, with the exception of the dens sapientiaTr wisdom teeth, which make -their appearance from the eighteenth to the twenty-fourth year. During the eruption of the second set, the beauty and character of the child's countenance coun-tenance is completed, and everything depends de-pends upon proper care and attention at this time, to see that the teeth come with regularity, and without being crowded. Another very important reason why the teeth should early in life receive the utmost ut-most care and professional attention, is the effect they exert upon the articulation. The loss of a single tooth affects the utterance utter-ance and invariably produces a hissing or lisping sound in articulating certain words containing the dental vowels, such as t, d, s, q and j. Ail public speakers, especially lawyers, clergymen and others, should, a3 they value a correct enunciation and ar-ticulation, ar-ticulation, remember that the teeth vera placed by nature to form a certain arch for the express purpose of giving force and purity of utterance. The modulation of the voice also is, in a great measure, dependent de-pendent on the shape of the mouth and healthy condition of tlie teeth and their contiguous parts. ' - -- --- - |