. Dental and cuspid teeth in both jaws have one rooteach. The first bicuspids in the upper have two roots, whilethe second bicuspids in the upper have only one root. Theupper molars have three roots each; however, the wisdomteeth may not have three fully developed roots. The lower bicuspids have only one root each, and thelower molars each have two roots. Now you will at leastknow that you cannot have a tooth extracted with five orsix roots as our grandfathers have told us they have. Twelfth Slide This represents the human jaws at old age, but if youwill care for your teeth as I have
. Dental and cuspid teeth in both jaws have one rooteach. The first bicuspids in the upper have two roots, whilethe second bicuspids in the upper have only one root. Theupper molars have three roots each; however, the wisdomteeth may not have three fully developed roots. The lower bicuspids have only one root each, and thelower molars each have two roots. Now you will at leastknow that you cannot have a tooth extracted with five orsix roots as our grandfathers have told us they have. Twelfth Slide This represents the human jaws at old age, but if youwill care for your teeth as I have described, your mouth shouldnever reach that condition. If you follow the rules I haveoutlined, there is no more reason for you to lose a tooththan you should lose a finger and that would be by , by modern dentistry, when people reach this con-dition, they may be supplied with artificial teeth so that theymay not be in the condition spoken of in Shakespeares SevenAges of Man. THE DENTAL SUMMARY 799. Twelfth Slide Copyrighted by Haskell Postgraduate College. This concludes the first section of the lecture which Ihave passed over hurriedly. You have seen that there are manypoints that could be enlarged upon and improved; but as mytalk usually continues for an hour, if I talk longer on one pointin the subject I will have to shorten it at others. (To be continued.) ORAL Grace Pearl Rogers, D. I). S., Detroit, Mich. (Continued from page 721 October issue.)PART in. THE DENTAL EDUCATION OP OUR PATIENTS. That every dentist is responsible for the dental educationof his patients, will be admitted by any one who has given thematter serious thought. This responsibility is of vital impor-tance to the oral prophylaxis specialist, since a large portionof his work necessarily consists in the proper instruction of MM) THE DENTAL SUMMARY his patients. the term dental education for the patientimplies is governed by the class of patients with which onehas to d
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