THUMB-SUCKING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 September 1926, Page 7

THUMB-SUCKING.

ALLEGED BAB TO BEATTY

A DENTIST’S EXPERIMENTS

NEW YORK, Aug. 20. The beauty <of the -human face .is determined in tlie first isix months; of life. This t-ieo-v was propounded by Dr. .Stanley Wilkinson, •a- -Mdlbowne -dentist. in a lecture before the First International,’ Orthodontic Congress here. Detailing experiments upon Melbourne 1 rbies. .in" the. counsel of which -lie- t-ook im-pres-sions of infa-nt-s 1 ’ jaws and faces from the, age of iseven days to six mo-nths, lie -sa-id : ‘‘Even a slight is-uck-ing of the thumb in the first -six months directly inhibits the normal growth. The lower jaw dinning tire first t-ix month's a much a-ocetenated growth of the mandible O'iower jaw bones), as oiipose-d to the upper jaw. It 14 pn-w-ihl? that, -the weak and .receding chins, marring facial, ibeanity, tfure .usually the- result of thumb-sucking in the first -six months.’ ? Dr. Mil kin-son ha-s visited .the leading donir- 1 colleges of America, Canada, England, and in seven- South American countries. He siavs that- he- saw great progress in dental’ -science- everywhere. Teeth were .much -the same the world over, Dr Wilkinson -staid, but Americans to-.k tlie best care of them. Engtenld excelled m’l in pure-dental science. «nd America- in technique, white Australia had an advantage in perspective_on both. He wa-s proud of Ansta-ftlia’s standing.