Popular essays upon the care of the teeth and mouth.

  • Bell, Victor C. (Victor Charles), 1867-
Date:
1902
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Credit: Popular essays upon the care of the teeth and mouth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. CLEANLINESS. The importance of keeping the mouth free from remnants of food and masses of tartar cannot be too strongly impressed upon the reader. It is no exag- geration to say that ninety-five per cent, of all dental troubles are the direct outcome of uncleanli- ness. When particles of food are allowed to accu- mulate upon and between the teeth, fermentation, which will be subsequently explained, takes place, and decay is the result., Or putrefaction may ensue, and the mouth become a very center of disease and infection. If the mouth could be kept perfectly ,clean and pure, teeth would never decay, but as this is impossible, it only remains for us to clean the teeth thoroughly after each meal, that the par- ticles of food may be as perfectly removed as is practicable. Tartar.—This is a deposit of animal and mineral matter, precipitated from the fluids of the mouth upon the teeth. Sometimes it accumulates in such large quantities as completely to incrust them. It