Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — The Care of Children’s Teeth. [ARTICLE]

The Care of Children’s Teeth.

The ignorance of many a mother determines whether her children shall go through life with poor and constantly poorer teeth. Not half the mothers of children, who are intelligent in other directions, knows that the “six-year molar” comes to stay, and that if it is allowed to decay the child loses a tooth he needs and ought to have. Care should be taken of the first baby teeth, even. A dentist of good standing says' that a very smooth bit of wood dipped into myrrh will remove discoloration and tartar from the baby’s teeth without injury to the gum, and with benefit to the teeth. Nothing is more common than to see little boys and girls whose first teeth have decayed, and of whose use they are deprived before the second teeth are near ready to appear. Some people attribute this to the constant munching of candy, particles of sugar and candy being left .upon or between the teeth, but it is true also that particles of food will act in much the same way; perfect cleanliness should lie

observed. The children should be fed with reference to their teeth. The com bread upon which the negro depends may well be given to our children. The good effects of forming the habit in early childhood of caring for the teeth will be felt at three score and ten.— New York Evening Poet.