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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 19

ISSUED BY THE DEPT OF HEALTH 8 Good Teeth are Priceless GUARD THEM FROM THE VERY START EXPECTANT MOTHERS : Your baby will be born with the first set of teeth fully formed: Your diet must be balanced to help them develop soundly: Your ante-natal clinic know exactly what You should eat 1 follow their advice in every detail. BABIES: Breast-feeding helps the teeth to continue developing and encourages the jaws to grow because the natural gnawing muscles are brought into Play: If the jaws do not grow properly, teeth will be crowded, and crowded teeth invite decay: If your baby has to be bottle-fed, use a small-holed nipple; and see that the bottle is held PROPERLY When the first tooth is cut, give baby hard things like rusks, twice-baked bread, and bones to chew a let it exercise its jaws naturally: CHILDREN: From the start, see that 4 healthy taste in food is cultivated: Use as little sugar and white flour as possible: Give the very minimum of artificially sweetened and refined foods: (2) Give the maximum of body-building and protective foods milk, cheese, fish, liver, whole-grain cereals, fruit and vege" tables: And don't forget Cod liver oil: (3) Keep teeth clean: Finish each meal with fruit or raw carrot; and use the tooth brush vigorously after meals: (4) Have teeth examined every 6 months: Your child can attend a School Dental Clinic from 2} years old: 16 FOR A HeaLThiER NatiON