Show IN THE DENTISTS care of children Teeth Several good suggestions false teeth the other day I 1 sat down in my dentists chair comfortably knowing that what was abent to be done would not bo at all painful or annoying and while he was getting ready his various instruments asked inquiringly bostonians have very good teeth as a rule they the dentist smiled as a rule are rather bad the corid over in these days abe said people are gradually up to chec fact that it is never atoo soon to attend to childrens teeth cindy as a result theyS come into our hands at so early an abc that we are able to correct m growth carefully at regular intervals that a fine set is assured A baby should have a tooth bash aa soon as he has a tooth and it should be used too carefully and judiciously always once and generally twice a day first teeth very often decay and need filling just as much as the second and one cannot be too particular about these things does the second set usually come as it ought to come without any as a dentist said I 1 anxiously thinking of my infant nephew who was just then cutting the eye teeth of his first set and decidedly taking time by the forelock he smiled again well I 1 should say it is always safer and wiser 0 o consult hood observed he then there is no risk although those teeth which grow crookedly can bo made their proper place after a time with a littile attention they will come properly boon their first appearance and a good deal of needless trouble and perhaps suffering would be saved modem dentistry as you well know works miracles the only thing it succeeded in doing is to induce a third set of teeth to grow and I 1 fear that is something which science will never achieve but there is no reason why everyone should not have at least a fai of teeth which with proper safely over a natural existence what do you mean by proper care brushing frequently and coming often to you they ought to be brushed after every meal or certainly at night and morning but ono cannot be too careful as to the sort of tooth powder one uses I 1 very often see powdered charcoal advocated by newspaper writers and quacks now nothing is more injurious to the teeth than powdered charcoal it is in reality carbon the hardest substance known of the same nature precisely as the diamond its constant use cannot help wearing off the enamel and otherwise seriously affecting the teeth and except ii rare cases and seldom it should never bu put upon a brush or into the mouth of course each dentist has his own particular powder which he advocates and advises in preference to all othas but this is a question upon which his opinion should most assuredly be asked if he is consulted often and allowed to examine the teeth at regular stated intervals the cure of them will be far less painful and they will naturally be kept in much better order people are apt to be negligent perhaps because they dread the discomfort of the dentists chair if they only knew however how very much better ones own teeth are than any artificial set they would never hesitate about preferring any amount of filling to pulling out A good dentist never advises the latter alternative unless it is absolutely avoidable false teeth I 1 regret to say anre rather fashionable in a certain ds of humanity the lower class whose principal faculty is the imitative mrs jones who really needs it has all her upper teeth drawn and Is provided with a new set white even and of the finest porcelain thereupon mrs brown whose magors and bicuspids are sound as a with pangs of envy goes and does likewise and regrets her folly eves ater but the deed is done and teet honce out can cover bo put back this an axiom everybody ought to remember |