Excerpt from The Journal of the Allied Societies, 1909, Vol. 4 Dental Hygiene is an important part Of a broad, an universal movement for better care Of the public health through a more complete knowledge Of the conditions which promote health. The dentist must now take his active part and responsibility in the great progress for preventive medicine which is everywhere working. He must give to it his skill, his time, his money. One Of the best and surest marks Of civilization is found in the attitude of its medical men - and the dentist belongs to the medical profession; and those medical men who consider them selves simply a kind of glorified mechanic remain in a purely shop point of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.