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Show 4k .YOUR DENTAL I. Q. 5" "- American Dental Association. ., x Can arthritis be caused from 1 21 decayed teeth? H. P. , . E. Goldhorn, D.D.S., writing on "Dental Infections and the Industrial Worker" in the Journal nf the American Dental Association, bays. "Rheumatism covers a wide variety of ailments, the most common com-mon of which are arthritis, myositis, inflammation of a voluntary muscle) mus-cle) lumbago and neuritis . . Denial Den-ial infection has long been recog-lized recog-lized as a predisposing cause of inany of these ailments, and the re--noval of mouth infection has been ndvised or insisted upon by most nedical men. There are, however, other predisposing causes of rheumatism, rheu-matism, many and varied, such as improper diet and climatic, chemical, chemi-cal, mechanical and endrocrine conditions." con-ditions." B. I. Comroe. M. D., points 1 ,,ut in the same journal, that dental infection is to be treated with great vare in arthritis, not primarily to cure the arthritis, but to lessen the burden which the patient is carry-Tig. carry-Tig. The dentist must never raise :alse hopes in the arthritic patient uy promising to relieve the arthritic symptoms by dental procedures. On '.he other hand, definite infection in Mothers sometimes worry because spaces appear between the five year old youngster's teeth. Spaces between be-tween the teeth, such as are shown above, are natural. They show that the child's jaws are growing longer and wider, making room for the larger permanent teeth. If spaces do not appear between the front baby teeth the permanent teeth may come in crooked and uneven. the mouth should be treated in general gen-eral as though no arthritis were present. Send questions with sell-addressed, stamped envelope, to American Dental Association. 212 tZast Superior street, Chicago. 111. |