Maternity and child care . the neck, causing them tobecome infected and enlarged. The child must early learn to use dental floss,which can be purchased in any drug store, toremove all particles of food from between theteeth each day, as regularly as the tooth-brushis used. After each brushing, the mouth shouldbe thoroughly rinsed, using a glass of water inwhich is dissolved a teaspoonful of table has three purposes, it rinses out the parti-cles of food removed from the crevices of theteeth by the brush and the dental floss; it hardensthe gums; and it stimulates them, protectingagains
Maternity and child care . the neck, causing them tobecome infected and enlarged. The child must early learn to use dental floss,which can be purchased in any drug store, toremove all particles of food from between theteeth each day, as regularly as the tooth-brushis used. After each brushing, the mouth shouldbe thoroughly rinsed, using a glass of water inwhich is dissolved a teaspoonful of table has three purposes, it rinses out the parti-cles of food removed from the crevices of theteeth by the brush and the dental floss; it hardensthe gums; and it stimulates them, protectingagainst infection. Every six months your childs teeth should belooked over by a competent dentist, any littlecavities promptly filled, and the teeth thoroughly 226 MATERNITY AND CHILD CARE cleaned and scaled of all accumulations. Thesehardened accumulations have been observed inthe mouths of some children to such an extentas to actually interfere with the proper closingof the jaws, thus causing the bolting of unmasti-cated Diagram showing- the Permanent Teeth, a—Central Incisors,b—Lateral Incisors, c—Canines, d—First —Second Bicuspids, f—First Molars, g—Sec-ond Molars. h—Third Molars. The permanent teeth come in crooked at must never fail to have them straightenedby your dentist, held by braces until they havegrown into the correct position. Crooked teethdeform the mouth and greatly lessen your childspersonal appearance. Do not be in a hurry to pull the temporaryteeth; they are loosened and pushed out by theincoming permanent teeth. The latter maketheir appearance in the order shown in the fol-lowing table. Eruption of the Permanent Teeth.— The per-manent teeth are thirty-two in number. The ear- TEACHING HEALTH 227 liest ones cut are the first molars which come injust back of the temporary second molars. Theyappear about the age of six and are called thesix-year-old molars/ The order and dates ofappearing are subject to considerable varia
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