Education and Modern Teeth.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 62, 10 September 1897, Page 2

Education and Modern Teeth.

Education is playing sad havoc with the teeth of modern generations. So an experienced dentist in the West-end aays, and b<3 ought to know. Formerly decayed teeth were generally attributed to a secret fondness for bonbons, bnt this idea is, it appears, quite a mistake. In fact, sugar is rather nourishing than otherwise. The troth is that the aocient sturdy sqnare jaw of the English race ia changing through lessons and booklearning to an anpular or V shape, which presses the molars ons upon the other, does not give them room to grow, and will in time prevent some of them cutting at all. Indeed, this catastrophe is not infrequent already- In many cases the original teeth are becoming less in number than they onght to be, and often the " wisdomers " fail to appear. This, in an " educated jaw," is lamentable. The new facial form is, according to the dentist, much cultivated by ladies, who find sb at it is popular among gentlemen. The latter like women with the " educated " angle of chin, which generally carries with it pearly but very frail teeth. If the specialist be right, this process of selection, aided by farther lessons and more study, will in the course of time, prod ace a race without any teeth at all. Then will the dentists make fortunes, for people will require complete artificial sets from the day of their birth onwards.