Show i health column A higher health standard for babion can be obtained by proper care of the teeth of expectant mothers it is extremely dangerous declares the tae division of dental health utah state board of health to approach motherhood with infected or unsound teeth ahll while 0 a child does not got get teeth until at least six months old tooth formation actually begins seven months before the child la Is born it la is stated nearly half the crowns of df the baby teeth aro are formed before the child la is born scientific care of teeth has shattered the old bellef belief that for each child the mother must inevitably lose a tooth but experts point out that it there is insufficient calcium to form the ille bones and teeth of the unborn child nature adjusts the 7 situation by drawing lime from the teeth leoth and bones of the mother one of the most moat serious mistakes is ia to disregard the childs teeth until trouble has developed reports to the state bourdot board of health disclose it has been definitely established that from two and a half years old the child should have regular dental care the first permanent molar usually app eppars aars when the child Is six years 0 od jd and dow doea not tall fall out as do all the twenty temporary teeth one of these molars clars appears at each of the farther ends 1 ids of the jaws interlocking will one another and guiding the whole facial structure loss of one of these four our molars Is often a serious pe per manint mishap yet these molars are declared to suffer greatest from neglect on the theory that temporary need no attention frequently such teeth are permitted to decay and become infected and are unwisely extracted tr the poor little orphan living in a public institution but on a balanced diet way may have better teeth than more fortunate children in n good homes bomes and under the tender care of their parents says dr R C dalgleish director of the division of dental health |