What Good Can Come of a Toothache?
Very few of us realize that an aching tooth is a good thing for us, provided we have it attended to and the ache removed. Any one who has had toothache will hardly agree that there can be a blessing attached to this excruciating pain.
But the good comes from the warning it gives us of the condition of our teeth on the inside of our mouths. The arrangement of the interior of the mouth and the use we make of it in passing things into our systems, favors very much the development and increase of microbes, and when they once get in they are difficult to remove. It is said that the greatest percentage of cases of stomach trouble come from teeth which are in bad condition and that a very large percentage of people who have bad teeth are in grave danger of blood poisoning or other troubles due to the microbes. When these microbes lodge in the mouth, they find conditions favorable to their development when there are bad teeth, and spread through the system.