Mouth hygiene and mouth sepsis.

John Sayre Marshall

Date:: 1912

Credit: Mouth hygiene and mouth sepsis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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of Oral Hygiene, says: It has come to be more appreciated that one of the great causes of decay in the teeth is lack of cleanliness, and that decay begins at the outer surface of the tooth, most frequently at the points most difficult to keep clean. . . . Clearly the work of the patient is oral hygiene,—the maintaining of the oral cavity in a state of health. The work of the dentist is dental prophy- laxis,—the placing of the teeth in condi- tion to prevent disease, a state favorable to oral hygiene. Thus it appears, from any strict definition of the two words, that the end' to be obtained by either dentist or patient is one and the same, —prevention of disease, maintenance of health. In an article on Oral Hygiene read by Dr. L. P. Bethel,3 he quotes Dr. Knowl- ton, dental examiner at the Barberton, Ohio, Diamond-match Factory, as say- ing: He is confident that the influence of oral hygiene is farther reaching than ordinarily imagined. Since its enforce- ment among these employees it has been 8Fourth International Dental Congress, St. Louis, 1904.

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