PERFECT TEETH BARELY FOUND PRESERVE YOUR TEETH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 81, 1 May 1909, Page 3

PERFECT TEETH BARELY FOUND PRESERVE YOUR TEETH

BY A CAREFUL DIET. One of our foremost dental surgeons tells us that the reason why the present generation possesses such bad teeth can only be attributed to the fact that th- system of dietary is all wrong. He advises us to eat for breakfast bacon, or bacon and eggs, baked or toasted bread, fresh fruit, and only drink tea or coffee when you have finished your meal, not during its course. For lunch or dinner the surgeon advises a meat of some sort, followed by a sweet pudding (if you must), and then fruit. For the last meal, meat, ship's biscuit and butter, and an apple. It will surprise you to hear that he wholly objects to iarinaceous diets, such as porridge, wheat cakes, and the like, for the reason, h e declares, that if not followed by a fruit diet, which cleanses the teeth from deposits of food-matter, the immediate consequence will be to deprive the digestive organs of their lubricity, with an ultimate reaction occurring in the teeth. The perfect tooth, without fissures, or clefts, or pits, is rarely found, except among children -who have been very carefully watched by their parents during their years of rearing. Faulty molecular structure •of the teeth is accentuated by the mischievous dietary of the children. Many little ones arc allowed to grind mj unlimited quantities of hard bake When they have not long passed the teething stage. As they grow older in years, chocolates are showered upon them, and so the poor molar? arc given no chance. Of all the food* which have a bad "Vet on the teeth, starch and sugar foods are the worst, and those who have the care of children, or who are theinselves addicted to eating starch ■or sugar foods, should never omit to cleanse the teeth. VEGETARIANS AT A DISADVANTAGE. Mastication is one -of the conditions necessary to a proper, exercise of the digestive functions, an' consequently to th P attainment and preservation of perfect bodily health.

When one eats soft foods, it is certain that little gastric juice is produced, and if sugar forms a main constituent of these foods, llic quality of the juice exuded is very speedily vitiated. Vegetarians have rarely good teeth, for the reason that their foods arc not of sufficient hardness to produce a sufficient quantity of gastric fluid to lubricate the digestive organs "properly.

The consequence is the teeth soon show signs of decay. If you must indulge in iarinaceous

*oods, and have what is known as a ''sweet tooth," you must neutralise their effects upon the teeth with fruit.