When to Clean the Teeth.
Of all the people who clean their teeth regularly, it is certain that a very large proportion only do co once a day, and that generally at the time of their morning ablutions. A much pmaller number nlso in so at retiring, bat the number of tho^e make a practice or regnlaily brushing their teeth after eating, tho most important time of all, in indeed very small. It is while eating thai. i.U little cavities or interstice b between the teeth become the repositories of fragments of food, or traces of some acid 3 in the food are left on the teeth, to cause incipient decay, and hasten it where it has already commenced. It is of course dosirable to brudh tho teeth on rising in the morning and before retiring at night, but it is of infinite more importanca that they should bo thoiougtily cleaved after eating.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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153When to Clean the Teeth. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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