The care of the teeth during school life / by R. Denison Pedley ; issued by the Medical Officers of Schools Association.

  • Pedley, R. Denison (Richard Denison), 1857-1925
Date:
1910
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Credit: The care of the teeth during school life / by R. Denison Pedley ; issued by the Medical Officers of Schools Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    addition to ordinary medical supervision, their teeth periodi- cally attended to from the ages of five to fifteen years, when they are given a start in life to join the army of in- dustrial workers. It is extremely difficult to trace these children in after life, because, I need hardly remind you, they are a floating population; but some idea of the large number over a series of years may be gathered from an interesting bribes, Ga eoaorerrie PEE TH: BRUSHING AND SILKING , THE MEDICAMENT USED WHETHER A DENTIFRICE OR GOOD SOAP AND WARM WATER 18 NOT SO IMPORTANT AS THE METHOD OF USING WHEN CLEANING THE TEETH THE GREATEST CARE 1S TO BE BESTOWED UPON THE REMOVAL OF FOOD AND DEBRIS FROM BETWEEN THE TEETH. IT 15 BEST TO USE A BRUSH WITH BRISTLES CUT TO CONFORM TO AND REACH THOSE SPACES AS SHOWN IN DIAGRAM. |. IN USE THE BRUSH SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO PASS TO AND FRO FROM THE FRONT TO THE BACK TEETH ONLY ; BUT WITH A SHORT PRESSING SWEEP FROM THE CUMS TO THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE TEETH . THUS THE STROKE IN THE UPPER JAW IS FROM THE GUM, DOWNWARDS WHILE IN THE LOWER JAW IT 1S FROM THE GUM UPWARDS. IN THE DIRECTION OF THE ARROWS IN DIAGRAM II.” | USED ONCE AWEEKANEXCELLENT | ADJUNCT TO THE ABOVE ANDAGREAT | PROTECTION ACAINST DECAY OF THE TEETH GONSISTS IN SILKING, THAT IS, PASSING A STRAND OF SILK EIGHT OR TEN INCHES LONG, HELD | TAUT BETWEEN THE INDEX FINGER AND THUMB OF EACH HAND - BETWEEN ALL THE TEETH AND DRAWING IT OUTWARDS FOR AN INCH IN SUCH A MANNER AS NOT TO HURT THE GUM _IF THESILK IS CUT OR FRAYED IN PASSING BETWEEN THE TEETH IT IS MOST LIKELY THAT DECAY IS PRESENT REQUIRING IMMEDIATE TREATMENT. paper on “ Children Under the Poor Law,’* from which we find that from 1897 to 1906 “nearly 13,000 children were sent to various employments from the Poor Law schools of the metropolis” alone. As each metropolitan Poor Law school has long had its dental surgeon—with very few exceptions tesa boys and girls have undergone regular in- spection and treatment during a number of years—their per- * A Report to the President of the Local Government Board, by J. T. Macnamara, 1908.
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