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    Your Healthy Mouth Book 4
    Your Healthy Mouth Book 4
    Your Healthy Mouth Book 4
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    Your Healthy Mouth Book 4

    By Martin Ashley

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Ashley
    Release dateSep 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301146116
    Your Healthy Mouth Book 4
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    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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      Book preview

      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

      See the other works in this series at Smashwords.com

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of this author.

      * * * * * * *

      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?

      * * * * * * *

      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

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