. The Dental cosmos. ministered through the Gregg inhaler, asshown in the accompanying illustration. Dr. S. B. Luckie. Chester. Methodof Using the Tooth-brush to Get the BestProphylactic Effect.* 356 THE DENTAL COSMOS. The brush should be of such size as toallow it easily to pass between the tuber-osity of the maxillary arch and theramus of the mandible. This requires inmany cases as narrow a brush as can beselected. The brush is placed upon thegums of the right side with the bristles to cause one portion of them to spreadover the buccal and the other portionover the morsal surfaces. The brist


. The Dental cosmos. ministered through the Gregg inhaler, asshown in the accompanying illustration. Dr. S. B. Luckie. Chester. Methodof Using the Tooth-brush to Get the BestProphylactic Effect.* 356 THE DENTAL COSMOS. The brush should be of such size as toallow it easily to pass between the tuber-osity of the maxillary arch and theramus of the mandible. This requires inmany cases as narrow a brush as can beselected. The brush is placed upon thegums of the right side with the bristles to cause one portion of them to spreadover the buccal and the other portionover the morsal surfaces. The bristlesshould reach the margin of the with short strokes the bristles areinduced to conform in their movementto the shapes of the crowns of the teeth,. directed upward (see Fig. 1), so asto remove the accumulations of fooddebris from within the fold formed bythe cheek, then passed back over thetuberosity and distal surface of the poste-rior tooth. Then the brush is turned sothat the ends of the bristles point toward Fig. 3.


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