Let’s play “Who Said This?” for #ThrowbackThursday!
“Our job as the #Dental Profession, therefore, is, first, an educational one. Let us all become Teachers, #Teachers of #Health.”
“So it seems that the first need of the patient is to understand the facts which govern the spread of infection and the destruction of the tooth crown and the tissues around the teeth.”
“When the patient becomes so interested in his own welfare that he strives to vigorously to prevent decalcification of the tooth crowns and the destruction of the epithelium which cause sores around his teeth …”
“ … I repeat, he will then be ready to apply modern methods of cleaning his teeth”
“This calls for effective vigorous methods of cleaning, which the patient needs to be taught; and he needs to be taught also that it takes time to do it well.”
“Some #Dentists may reason that to teach the patient to apply these principles effectively will reduce the work of the #Dentist to such a degree that it will operate as an economic loss.”
“On the contrary, every patient who is taught how to maintain his own health is so grateful that ordinarily he sends to the #Dentist much more work to be done for other persons than his own work could possibly amount to.”
Notice there is no talk of ‘putting the mouth back into the body’, or that ‘oral health is overall health’. They made no such derisory pronouncements. The thought would probably be absurd to them. Health is health is health. 
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