Show Daily Heal Health th Service How to Care for Baby's Bahs Teeth Editors Editor's note This Is the third of three timely articles on baby teeth by Dr Fishbein 1 e aBy e a t Q 00 By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of or the American Medical Medical Med Med- ical Association and of the Health Magazine The chief reason for preserving the baby teeth Is to keep the mouth In Inthe inthe inthe the right shape for the second teeth All of the 20 teeth that are called temporary teeth are usually In the mouth by the time lime the child is 3 Behind Behind Be Be- hind the first set is the second set In order to have the second set properly properly prop prop- erly developed the food must be right and the thc mouth free from Infection The only certain way to control Infection Infection in infection In- In is to have dental care when it appears The most Important permanent tooth comes come in between the fifth and sixth year car of life ure and is known as the year six molar It comes in six teeth back from the one In the front of the mouth In the center There are four year six-year molars one on each cich side of the thc upper per and lower jaws They should Rave nave the most mot careful attention Once gone they ore are not replaced except with artificial artificial artificial arti arti- teeth If they decay and are arc r removed moved without proper dental attention atten atten- lion hon the entire expression of the thet t face and o of the thc mouth may change In the absence of or the proper molars food is not sufficiently ground before entering the stomach O 0 o 9 Every child should tec ee a dentist following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing the appearance of the year six-year molars Only a generation has passed since dentists first began to give special attention to the teeth of the child chUd Now the subject Is so Important that there are many dentists who specialize exclusively In childrens children's teeth They are arc concerned with seeIng seeing seeing see see- ing that all of the teeth are are are- straight that they fit m properly against the opposites opposites op- op In the other jaw that they do not grind off surfaces that are meant to stand and that they remain firmly and are arc not pushed into the wrong positions With the help of the X-ray X the dentist is able to s see e that the teeth arc are sound at their roots By personal personal per per- inspection he finds tiny spots which indicate the beginning of de de- de- de cay These can ean be filed and polished and their decay stopped The additional cost of the X-ray X pictures means future saving Preventive Pre Pre- dentistry done early is cheap Curative dentistry done after decay has proceeded far tar after the teeth have gotten otten into wrong positions aCter after af aC- a- a ter some teeth have been lost may maybe maybe be bc expensive and can be prevented |