Show T Dental Hygiene The Road to Health By DR R. R ALLEN GRIFFITH TEETH AND VANITY T TWE FIVE FIVE TY or thirty years ago It was considered quite the thing to have ha diamonds set In the teeth About the same time too even some of at our own American people had ball gold sold crowns put on their front teeth to add to their A little later several American dentists did a land office business In old Mexico grinding down the front teeth of ot the peons and putting gold sold crowns on them Many of ot these peons would spend their last dollar for a gold sold crown And these were we-re nearly always put on perfectly sound teeth The mouth Is the most expressive organ of ot the human body What Is Ismore Ismore Ismore more attractive than smiling lips Ups with a perfect set of oC clean white teeth Most people could have bave beautiful teeth l If they would only give them the necessary time and attention My lady sometimes spends a fortune for a string of pearls and neglects the real pearls which are In her mouth Teeth carefully polished and free from decay have ha much of oC the sheen of ot the pearl and should be far prefer prefer- able of ot I. d-I. di dl- Teeth are the first organ Poorly chewed food places an nn enormous strain on the digestive system Not only does the person lose much of the food value but serious digestive disorders may re ra re- re suIt sult The average crage Individual does not realize the value of ot either teeth or health until they are lost Then he makes frantic efforts to regain what Is too frequently gone forever when a little prevention In the beginning would hn have ve preserved both Vanity alone should prevent the very absurdities noted above Even the loss of ot a single back tooth will show In a photograph The teeth form a n perfect arch and any single tooth removed from that arch will cause a change chanse In Its Us form torm In the same way should a brick or stone be allowed to disintegrate In an architectural arch It will cause the arch to gradually collapse Porcelain teeth are made nowadays nowadays nowa nowa- days to take the place of ot teeth lost from any cause canse The art of dental ceramics has reached a a stage where the artificial Is hard to tell from the natural Vanity Is unquestionably the cause canse of ot this high degree of ot perfection but no artificial tooth Is ever as good as the natural It Is perfectly natural for every normal human being to want to look lookas as well as possible and vanity alone should teach them to care for their teeth In time and to keep them clean TEETH AND SELF-RESPECT SELF a man takes a bath th and MANY changes his collar every day and wears the latest style clothes while his teeth cry aloud Give me ine a bath and take me to the dentist dentist den den- Go where you yon will there Is a continuous continuous continuous con con- parade of Irregular elongated elongated elongated elon elon- gated unkempt teeth Of Ot those who visit the dentist very few do so because they sincerely believe that sound clean teeth are conducive to lengthening their lives Most men visit the dentist because they are driven drien to him by pain or pride Few people think of ot their health until i they are sick i As the physician and dentist see things today there will be far less I surgery and sickness when the full I knowledge of ot modern preventive medicine and dentistry become fully known throughout the world The average e duration of ot human life lIte has been Increased many years during the last half halt century This has come about more through the protection protection protection pro pro- of ot the people by public health laws and the saving of ot children chil dren than through the knowledge and use of ot drugs Bad drinking water Is probably one of ot the most common and dangerous dangerous dan dan- erous carriers of ot disease e. In our cities millions of oC dollars have been spent to Insure pure drinking water water water wa wa- wa- wa ter but we are Just beginning to spend anything to keep clean the childs child's mouth This great advance In the prevention prevention prevention tion of ot the diseases wherein dentists dentists dentists den den- are so much Interested Is the knowledge that acute special local and chronic diseases such BUch as neuritis neuritis neu neue sciatica and acute paralysis come from mouth Infections In the majority of or Instances We are arc also coming to believe that appendicitis diseases of ot the gall bladder and ulcerated stomachs may be caused by bacteria In the C capillary circulation circulation tion at nt the base of ot mucous cells Another prime cause Is local Wee We Wo find foci of ot Infections In the tonsils in pyorrhea In cavities Inthe Inthe in inthe the teeth In abscesses at the roots of the teeth All of oC these foci of ot Infection may be prevented by keeping keep ing tag the mouth clean and healthy Q Or Newspaper per Union |