Excerpt from Dental Physiology and Oral Hygiene

Modern dentistry is devoting much effort toward preventing and removing the cause of disease, as well as repairing damage after bad habits have caused decay of the teeth. Medical men assert that many of the infectious and contagious diseases find their beginning in unclean oral conditions.

Disease contributes toward poverty and crime. In any community where right living conditions are practiced, poverty and disease decrease.

People are very much interested in their own welfare, and are anxious to know of anything that will aid them in preserving their health and good appearance. Unfortunately, many people neglect or avoid seeking dental advice and aid until pain prompts them to call on the dentist.

Often serious damage has been done, which it may be too late to remedy.

The time to begin the care of the teeth is in infancy. The children are not responsible for the neglected state of their teeth. The careless or ignorant parent is to blame for the condition.

Diseased conditions put a handicap on the child, retarding mental and physical development.

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