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Prom Infancy to otd Age. ffl?
Hate children to clean their teeth, at least twice a day, and
when this practice has been once adopted, it will be continued
as a matter of course. Besides this, from the age of six to
twelve years in particular, a dentist should be consulted three
or four times a year, and at a later period, Once or twice for
the purpose of examining the teeth, and counteracting, by the
timely removal of such causes as may produce disease, any
mischief which is likely to take place." Parmly's Notes to
Brown's Dentologia, 171.
Many persons think that if they have the teeth once oper-
ated on, it is quite enough, and that it will secure them from
future decay this is a great error and- has caused the loss of
;
many teeth. We have had many opportunities of examining
the mouths of individuals, whose teeth were thoroughly " put
to rights" ten years before ; in many cases, those teeth that
were plugged long before, stood firm amid the ruin of others,
sound at the time they were operated on.
The polite semenaries in London and Paris, also in most of
the large towns in Great Britain and France, generally have
a dentist attached iu ibem, whoicgularlj examines the mouths
of the pupils two, three or four times a year, and thus is en-
abled early to correct any disposition of the teeth to irregularity.
We do not so often meet with deformed teeth, among well
bred foreigners, as in our own country. It were to be wished
that the same plan be adopted in our boarding schools.
" In our modern polite semenaries, the children's teeth are
frequently examined and kept, in order by a dentist. This is
a regulation that prevents much future pain and regret, and
one for which they, when grown up, will be far more grateful,
than for the lighter accomplishments." Murphy, page 74.
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Prom Infancy to otd Age. ffl?
Hate children to clean their teeth, at least twice a day, and
when this practice has been once adopted, it will be continued
as a matter of course. Besides this, from the age of six to
twelve years in particular, a dentist should be consulted three
or four times a year, and at a later period, Once or twice for
the purpose of examining the teeth, and counteracting, by the
timely removal of such causes as may produce disease, any
mischief which is likely to take place." Parmly's Notes to
Brown's Dentologia, 171.
Many persons think that if they have the teeth once oper-
ated on, it is quite enough, and that it will secure them from
future decay this is a great error and- has caused the loss of
;
many teeth. We have had many opportunities of examining
the mouths of individuals, whose teeth were thoroughly " put
to rights" ten years before ; in many cases, those teeth that
were plugged long before, stood firm amid the ruin of others,
sound at the time they were operated on.
The polite semenaries in London and Paris, also in most of
the large towns in Great Britain and France, generally have
a dentist attached iu ibem, whoicgularlj examines the mouths
of the pupils two, three or four times a year, and thus is en-
abled early to correct any disposition of the teeth to irregularity.
We do not so often meet with deformed teeth, among well
bred foreigners, as in our own country. It were to be wished
that the same plan be adopted in our boarding schools.
" In our modern polite semenaries, the children's teeth are
frequently examined and kept, in order by a dentist. This is
a regulation that prevents much future pain and regret, and
one for which they, when grown up, will be far more grateful,
than for the lighter accomplishments." Murphy, page 74.
