1st. Cleanse your teeth once, or oftener, every day. Rinse the mouth after eating. Cleansing the teeth consists in removing every particle of foreign matter from around the teeth and gums.
2d. To cleanse use well-made brushes, soft quill, or wood toothpicks, an antacid styptic tooth wash, and precipitated chalk. If these means fail apply to a regular dentist.
3d. Avoid eating hot food. Thoroughly masticate the food, and well salivate it before swallowing.
4th. Parents ought to carefully attend to the child’s second dentition. Prevail upon your children to visit, at frequent intervals, a careful and skillful operator.
5th. Remember that four of the permanent double teeth come in at the age of six years. They are very liable to decay early, are very large, and should never be allowed to require extracting.
6th. Never allow any one to extract a tooth or dissuade you from having them filled unless absolutely necessary.
7th. Carelessness and procrastination are responsible for a large proportion of teeth that are lost.
The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. The teeth must be taken care of or your health will suffer.
Remember, a clean tooth would not decay in a hundred years.