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Important Information Relative to Personal Oral Hygiene

by
Charles C. Bass, M.D.

October 1, 1966

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"A Clean Tooth Does Not Decay."

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"The essential fact is that the early stage lesion of each of these entirely different diseases originates and advances only beneath a thick pad of bacterial material, called dental
plaque, at the vulnerable locations."

"The "secret", missed heretofore, is that while the outer part of dental plaque contains many different kinds of mouth bacteria the main, deeper part is composed entirely of long
filamentous type microorganisms..."

"Those who learn and regularly follow our method will be able to keep, healthy and functional, all the good teeth they now have throughout a long lifetime; but not without it."

"A Clean Tooth Does Not Decay, nor does periodontoclasia occur about a clean tooth." C. C. Bass, M.D.