Your Healthy Mouth Book 4
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A healthy mouth.
No more bleeding gums. No more toothache. No more bad breath. No more worrying about dental treatment. A mouth you can enjoy and rely upon, at every stage of your life. Wouldn’t that be great? As one of the UK's leading dentists, Martin Ashley has successfully guided thousands of people on the pathway to a healthy mouth.
In Your Healthy Mouth, he shares this knowledge with you.
For twenty years, Martin has trained dentists and hygienists to help their own patients have a healthy mouth.
Your Healthy Mouth is written for real people like you. Martin explains dental problems in a way that you can understand. There is advice for everyone, at every stage of life. Parents of young children, teenagers starting to look after their own mouths, adults looking for a dentist and then those of us who act as carers for friends and relatives.
Your Healthy Mouth is conveniently separated into five books.
In Book 4, Martin describes your dental lifetime, from teething, through the early years and onto the rest of our life. He explains what you are likely to experience and reassures us it is possible to have a healthy mouth..
A healthy mouth for life.
Martin Ashley
Martin is a dentist in Manchester, UK.He works at the University Dental Hospital of Manchester as a Consultant in Restorative Dentistry and at his specialist dental practice, in Altrincham, Cheshire.
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Your Healthy Mouth Book 4 - Martin Ashley
YOUR HEALTHY MOUTH
DENTAL KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL THE FAMILY
BOOK FOUR
MARTIN ASHLEY
Published by Martin Ashley at Smashwords
Copyright 2014 Martin Ashley
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CONTENTS
In Book 1
Dentistry isn’t working for everyone and so you and I are going to do something about it.
The mouth in your mirror
Healthy mouth, healthy body
Eat and drink well for a healthy mouth
Your dirty mouth
Do you have bleeding gums?
From tiny holes to rotten teeth
In Book 2
Gumbrushes – the missing link
Toothbrushes and toothpastes
Interdental bottle brushes
Dental floss and tape
Mouthwash
In Book 3
Bad breath
Mouth cancer
Ouch! – I’ve got sensitive teeth
Worn out and brushed away
Book 4
Chapter 17 - It’s only teething…
Chapter 18 - From drool to school
Chapter 19 - A dental lifetime
Chapter 20 - A healthy mouth for life
About the Author
Acknowledgements
In Book 5
Drilled, filled, capped and cleaned
The hidden problems with cosmetic dentistry
How on earth do I find a good dentist?
Why do you like being a dentist?
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CHAPTER 17
IT'S ONLY TEETHING…
I have many friends, relatives and colleagues who are enjoying the sleepless nights that accompany expanding families. As a dentist, I need to be able to give a little more help than simply saying, It's only teething…
Throughout history, teething has been held responsible for a wide variety of childhood illnesses. There are references to teething difficulties in the Homeric hymns from around 1200 BC and in the prayers of early Indian literature around 1000 BC. In the fourth century BC, Hippocrates wrote a short treatise ‘On Dentition’:
‘Teething children suffer from itching of the gums, fevers, convulsions and diarrhoea, especially when they cut their eye teeth and when they are very corpulent and costive’.
In 117 AD the physician Soranus of Ephesus was the first to suggest using hare’s brain to ease teething. This remained a favoured remedy until the 17th century. There is a recorded cure from the 4th century AD:
‘If they are in pain, smear the gums with dog’s milk or hare’s brain; this works also if eaten. But if a tooth is coming through with difficulty, smear Cyperas with butter and oil-of-lilies over the part where it is erupting’.
By the 9th century, physicians were concerned with which season was best for the teething child. ‘They that teethe in winter, come off best’. It is probably no coincidence that contamination of foodstuffs and gastrointestinal disorders (upset tummies) were more frequent in the summer.
Ambriose Pare (1517-1592), the French army surgeon, began to advocate a new solution to the age old problem of ‘breeding teeth’: cutting the gums with a lancet. In 1575, he described how he developed the method, from the examination of a dead child:
"When we diligently sought for the cause of his death, we could impute it to nothing else than the contumacious hardness of the gums… when we cut the gums with a knife we found all the teeth appearing… if it had been done when he lived, doubtless he would have been preserved."
And later:
"…of which kind remedy I have with prosperous and happy success made trial in some of mine own children… which is much better and more safe to do as some nurses do, who taught only by instinct of