Mouth hygiene and mouth sepsis . Right Side of Same Fig. Hi-. Left Side of Same. THE HUMAN MOUTH The lower teeth usually appear a fewweeks in advance of the upper ones (, II, III).2 No general rule can be for-mulated from which, however, there willnot be marked and frequent deviations. The variations are so marked in thedates of the eruption of the teeth that notwo authors give them exactly and syphilitic children cuttheir teeth very early, while in rhachitic—rickety—children the process begins verylate. THE CARE OF THE MOUTH OF LITTLECHILDREN. As soon as a child begins
Mouth hygiene and mouth sepsis . Right Side of Same Fig. Hi-. Left Side of Same. THE HUMAN MOUTH The lower teeth usually appear a fewweeks in advance of the upper ones (, II, III).2 No general rule can be for-mulated from which, however, there willnot be marked and frequent deviations. The variations are so marked in thedates of the eruption of the teeth that notwo authors give them exactly and syphilitic children cuttheir teeth very early, while in rhachitic—rickety—children the process begins verylate. THE CARE OF THE MOUTH OF LITTLECHILDREN. As soon as a child begins to take foodits mouth should receive attention; buthow few mothers or nurses ever think tocleanse a nursing babys mouth! Muchif not all of the suffering that some babieshave to endure from nursing soremouth—stomatitis—might be avoided bya little care upon the part of the motheror nurse in cleansing the mouth of thebaby after feeding. Oral hygiene, or oral health, must bebased upon prophylaxis—the prevention Photographs from the collection in the L
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