. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. with the upper and lower teeth held slightly apart,bring the brush with a rotary motion down to the end of theteeth. Clean first the upper teeth and then the lower, each setseparately. The brush should never be brought from the upperteeth down over the lower or from the lower up over theupper, as by this method particles of food are forced underthe edges of the gum. The rotary movement causes the hairsof the brush to penetrate between the teeth and thoroughlycleans in between them. The inside of
. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. with the upper and lower teeth held slightly apart,bring the brush with a rotary motion down to the end of theteeth. Clean first the upper teeth and then the lower, each setseparately. The brush should never be brought from the upperteeth down over the lower or from the lower up over theupper, as by this method particles of food are forced underthe edges of the gum. The rotary movement causes the hairsof the brush to penetrate between the teeth and thoroughlycleans in between them. The inside of the teeth is cleanedwith the small brush, turning it with the same rotary move-ment. Brush the masticating surfaces of the teeth with anin-and-out, side-to-side movement. This cleans the pits andgrooves. Tooth pastes and powders. Mouth washes, powders, andpastes are of little good as disinfectants, but they help to cleanthe teeth and mouth and leave a pleasant taste. No gritty powders Fig. 5. Correct position of the brush incleaning the inside of the front teeth. Care of the Mouth and Teeth 15. Waller E. Fancher, Waller E. Fancher, Fig. 6. Radiograph of aching light area around the roots of thetooth in the center of the cut is due tobone destruction and the presence ofpus. At the right is shown a tooth witha well-made porcelain crown, but theroot canal has not been perfectly filled. Fig. 7. The patient experienced no painfrom any of the teeth, but the radio-graph shows that the root canal of thesecond tooth from the left is only par-tially filled and the light area at the rootindicates infection and the destructionof bone. should be used, as they may injure the enamel and make the teethmore liable to decay. Use of toothpicks and silk. A toothpick or floss silk may beused between the teeth to remove particles of food, and are bene-ficial unless used with sufficient force to injure the gums. Silkshould not be used if the teeth are so close together that i
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