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It is well and good to encourage your children to emulate George Washington, but !not where dental health is concerned. Our first president had a long history of troubles with his teeth, and later with his dentures. Your children’s teeth should last their entire lifetime. Of course, this is true provided today’s youngsters have been started on the way to good i dehtal health at a young age. National Children's Dental Health Week, which begins Feb. 5, is an annual reminder to parents that dental hellth habits must be learned in child hood. In fact, youngsters should have theix^first dental examination at the age of two and one-half to three years— when all their primary teeth have erupted. Those first teeth areimportant to future dental health. One basic function of primary teeth is to preserve proper space for permanent teeth, and if they are lost too soon— through decay, for example— the permanent development of teeth is often crooked. Poorly aligned teeth can affect appearance, eating habits anc speech. Frequently misshapen dentition can only be corrected; by orthodontic treatment which may be lengthy and' costly. And, if a child’s ap- '
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