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Show r: THE LATEST DISCOVERY. pj. In the good old clays of toothache, before dentists had any other instruments than their fingers, a mallet and a gouge, the human fam-Hily, fam-Hily, except the wild tribes, became toothless at middle age. Today, the dentists manage to keep teeth in the jaws by constant work on H the mouths of their patients. A big part of retained teeth, which have been operated on, have had the nerves extracted. This practice, ;ye are now told, is all wrong. Ogdenites, just back from the Mayo Hft institute at Rochester, state that the greatest advancement in health Hl restoration in the past year is the revolutionizing of dentistry where- j ly teeth without nerves are treated as a menace to health, and a big .fraction of the source of all ailments is searched for at the roots of 'the teeth. Patients are not placed in a chair, but are stretched on an oper- i feting table and are as carefully protected as they would be, if under-. 1. 1 i'going an operation by a surgeon other than a dentist. X-Rays are obtained and when pus is discovered, instead of scat- j jtering the pus by breaking the walls, the pus sack is frozen and the dangerous, life-destroying matter is removed intact, i; . Tests made in the Mayo institute prove that nearly every disease !' fo which the human body is heir, can be produced from the teeth. !; 'Even tumors are attributed to neglect of the mouth. 1 rj If this be true, we must begin to learn a lesson from the Ameri- h can Indian. When the pioneers arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley, fl ;ll 'ther noted the excellent preservation of the teeth of the natives. j .Old men had all their teeth and toothache was almost unknown, ll jrr It is said that the highly civilized races eat too much sugar, m yhich, in its chemical effects on the body, helps to weaken the lime fl ' Structures of the teeth. Whatever the cause, it is evident that mod-a mod-a rn civilization lessens the resisting power of the teeth, and, thcre- fove it follows that, if ill health is in great degree due to the teeth, herc must be a going back to the simple life. |