Author: Alfred C. Fones

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780282005986

Excerpt from Mouth Hygiene: A Course of Instruction for Dental Hygienists; A d104-Book Containing the Fundamentals for Prophylactic Operators Judging from the condition of the mouths of the children in our public schools, fully 90 per cent. Of the population of this country has decayed teeth. If all the dentists In the United States dex oted all of their time to reparative work alone, they could not take care of one -eighth of the people. But Operative dentistry 18 expensive. It 13 beyond the means of the great working class who need sound teeth and good health. There must be some cheaper and better solution than merely to follow the endless chain of repair. We must get at the source of this universal disease and try to check it by educational and preventive means. The source is the children in our public Schools. We know that with extreme cleanliness, the elimination of improper foods and with surface treatments of the teeth at regular intervals, fully 90 per cent. Of dental decay can be eliminated. If this knowledge and service is to be given to the children as well as to those adults who are patients in private practice, who is to give it? Apparently the only solution is the woman who is educated and trained as a dental hygienist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.