What can a mother do to preserve her children's teeth?

  • Quinby, Henry C.
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: What can a mother do to preserve her children's teeth?. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    HER CHILDREN'S TEETH? The question which serves as a title to this httle book is one that almost every mother asks when she takes her suffering child to the dentist to get relief from the first experience of the pain which Burns describes as the— venomed stang That slioots my tortured gums alang : And through my lugs gi'es mony a twang Wi' gnawing vengeance. And there are so many erroneous ideas, with so little real knowledge of what a mother can and should do for her children's teeth, that it has seemed to me a want would be supplied if some trustworthy informa- tion were put together in a popular form to explain a few of the causes of tooth deterioration, and the means by which the evil can be arrested. My experience as a dental practitioner teaches me that if parents do not take the trouble to look after their children's teeth intelligently and carefully, the dentist may as well cease his endeavours to preserve these organs, and go back to his old position of tooth-drawer, which is still the only idea conveyed to many minds by the word dentist.