Proper Care of the Teeth.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume 4, Issue 35, 25 January 1895, Page 2

Proper Care of the Teeth.

They Should be Brushed Thoroughly Aitoi Meals, Dentists are daily committing the error ol not instructing their patients in regard to th« proper methods of cleansing their mouths—brushing, picking, rinsing v/ith warm watei after m6als and at night before going to bed. Our observations must show that people who do these things faithfully have little or no dentistry to do. It is astonishing what ignorance exists among people of all classes and conditions as to what cleanliness of the mouth means. They will tell you frankly that they do not brush their mouths as well as they ought to, for they did not know they were going to he examined, and when you looked you really thought so, and the seoond thought was probably not for a month. Cleanly habits are part of an individual’s education and can be formed only in childhood. Too much care cannot be bestowed on the subject for the little ones. Each individual must see it thoroughly done—bavo it done for him and experience having it well rubbed in with a brush. Not much dentifrioe of any kind is needed —small quill tooth-picks are best, narrow strips of rubber dam for epaoes the quill will not clean. Water used frequently for rinsing, with a motion of the tongue on all the surfaces 01, the teeth and gums, lingual, palatal, labial and buccal. So much for preventive dentiS' try, which should be our highest aim. Maude : “ Just think I It ia predioteo that, in fifteen years, horses will have become so intelligent that they may be driven without reins.” Mabel (regretfully) : “ Yea, but what good will it do üb? Wc shall be

too old to go riding then I”