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■SECTION TWO- Good Teeth—For You, Your Chid Your Community By ERNEST A. BRANCH, D.D.S - ■ - -- The Council on Dental Health of North Carolina Dental Society is sponsoring this aeries of ar ticles on Dental Health. The writer, Dr. Ernest A. Branch is the Director of the Division of Oral Hygiene of the North Caro lina State Board of Health. Fluorides and Teeth In the current interest and concern about fluoridation, the addition of fluorides to municipal water supplies, we should not forget the dramatic history of the discoveries and develop ments on which this preventive meas ure is based. This particular story begins almost fifty years ago with the desire and determination of a young dentist to do something about a condition that was disfiguring the teeth of his pa tients. In 1908 Dr. Frederick S. Mc- Kay and his colleagues in Colorado Springs set themselves the task of finding the cause and cure of the] “Brown Stain” occuring in the teeth of 80 per cent of the children and young adults of their town. In ex amining the teeth and talking to the children they noted that the teeth of those who had moved into the com munity after the age of ten were not affected. Dr. McKay extended his investiga tions to the surrounding countryside and small communities, traveling by horse and buggy and asking the peo ple what they ate and where they got their water. He found many other similarly afflicted communities but he also found one community that did not have “Colorado Brown Stain.” Os gv»at significance was the fact that this was the only one of these towns that did not get its water from the Pike’s Peak watershed. Later, in a mining community, the condition was found to be extremely serious. This town used water from a deep mine. Dr. McKay had called in Dr. G. V. Black to help in the investigations. It gradually became apparent to them from their own studies and from re ports received from others who had become interested that the condition was related to the water supply. Dr. Black gave the name, mottled enamel, to the condition. The first article on mottled enamel in dental literature was published in 1916 in “Dental Cos mos” under the joint authorship of Dr. McKay and Dr. Black. Conclusive evidence of the validity of the water hypothesis was furnished between 1916 and 1931 by experiences with changing water supplies in sev eral communities. Britton. South Da kota, changed from shallow, surface wells to deep drilled wells with the result that all of the young children had mottled tooth enamel while the teeth of the older children were not affected. After a similar experience in Oakley, Idaho, where- the water source was changed from surface wells to water piped from warm springs, a second change was made and the mottling was ended. At Bauxite, Arkansas, with the establishment of a deep well system mottling appeared. The wells were sealed off and water from the Saline River was used. Ten years later Dr. McKay and Dr. H. Trendley Dean of the United States Public Health Ser vice examined the children’s teeth and mmmmmmmmmmmmammm SEE US FOR YOUR paint mm We Carry a Full Line of GLIDDEN PATNTS AND VARNISHES Harrell & Leary Phone 459 I JACQUIN'SI I PEACH FLAVORED I I I Page Two found the teeth of those bom since the change from the well to river wa ter free of mottling. They also not ed, however, that the teeth of these children were more subject to decay than were the mottled teeth. This new and important observation led to a new field of investigation. The study at Bauxite also led to finding that it was the high fluorine 1 content of water that caused mottled enamel. This discovery was made by • H. V. Churchill, chief chemist of the : Aluminum Company of America, and was announced by him January 20, • 1931. He found the fluoride content of the deep well at Bauxite to be 14 : parts per million and was the first to I suggest the possible correlation be i tween fluorides in the water and mot ; tied enamel. Waters from other af fected communities were analyzed and found to contain fluorine, i Dentists and chemists then became ' engrossed and engaged in studies and: : | experiments to determine the amount j i of flourine which would inhibit decay without causing mottled enamel and! in devising methods for regulating the i fluorine content of drinking water. As late as 1935 there was more emphasis on reducing the fluorine content of ; water to prevent dental fluorosis than there was on adding fluorides to mu nicipal water supplies to prevent den tal caries. In our own State in the early thir ties, Dr. Dean and the writer visited j ; communities where the children’s teeth ' showed mottling. In Windsor, where . the condition was prevalent in a mild ; form, the artesian well water wav ■ found to contain excessive amounts of ; fluorine. These'wells were sealed off i and a new source of water substi , tuted. i In brief, then, the first three steps i in discovering the relationship of ; fluorides in drinking water to dental health have been: 1. The association of the preval ence of mottled enamel with the water ingested during the period of tooth . formation. | 2. The isolation of fluorine as the , constituent of water that causes mot tled enamel. ( 3. The "observation that mild dental . , fluorosis was accompanied. by low I . dental caries prevalence. ,*■' ■« In our next article we will discuss ■ some of the studies and experiments leading to the acceptance of fluoridat r ed water as a means of reducing the i incidence of tooth decay. 3 . CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES’ . Services at the First Christiai . Church have been announced as foi i lows by the past -he Rev. E. u > Alexander: Bible School. Sunday morning at 1 . o’clock; morning service at 11 o’cloca; 1 ■ evening service at 7:30 o’clock. Wed ; nesday Evening Bible Class meets at 7:30 o’clock. Everyone is welcome U voung people’s meeting at 6:30 P. M.. all services. - Surprises galore for '54! | See the new Chevrolet at . • . B. B. H. MOTOR COMPANY "YOUR FRIENDLY CHEVROLET DRALRRT S. Broad and Oakum Streets ~ • * •' ~ ' Edenton, N. C THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1953. | Vets* Question Box j Q —The VA has just awarded me disability compensation for an ailment I incurred in service. Can 1 count on receiving compensation checks, for the same amount, each month for the rest of my life? A—Not necessarily. Your compen sation payments may be subject to change, depending on your physical condition. If medical evidence shows your disability is improved, payment? may be reduced or even stopped; or, if it shows the disability is worse, payments may be increased Q —l’m a teacher and A World War II veteran. I’ve been spending my summers going to school under the GI Bill. This coming summer I won der if I could take a course to get credits I need in order to renew my teaching certificate. A—No, you could not Summertime GI training by teachers may not be taken just to renew a certificate or keep it in force. But it may be taken if it will lead to a higher or more advanced certificate than the one yon now have. I Christmas Special S TAKE YOUR PICK OF ANY . j [ Magic Chef i FOR ONLY 19.95 DOWN j I '* - j , i - | I s i I ■ ! j f : a ft ~~ * j I I t , ... J \ Pyrofax Installation and Gas Included ! HARRELL GAS & COAL COMPANY | ' NEXT TO PERQUIMANS HIGH SCHOOL ! 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