BRISTOL-MYERS COMPANY
630 FIFTH AVENUE

NEW YORK

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

Dear Instructor:

As requested we are very glad to send you Oral Hygiene
help material for use with your groups.

Instruction from the colored wall chart entitled "Why Do
Teeth Ache?" can be tied in very nicely with a lesson on good groonm-
ing which is becoming so vitally importent to success these days.
Because a bright, sparkling smile is dependent upon healthy gums and
clean teeth, the grooming angle leads in very effectively to a basic
health lesson on Oral Hygiene.

Instructors everywhere are recognizing the importance of
teaching students to massage their gums as well as to brush their
teeth. The habit of regular gum massage has become a necessity as
a result of modern diet. The soft foods everyone eats today do not
give gums enough work to keep them firm and healthy. They grow
soft and tender, A warning tinge of "pink" appears on the tooth
brush. If neglected, the soundness of even apparently strong teeth
may be endangered.

Establishing the gum massage habit will do much to carry
one through life with sound teeth and healthy gums, while neglect
can cause poor physical health with resulting absence from school
and backwardness in studies. Gum massage can be practiced either
with the tooth brush or the finger and the enclosed folder gives the
technique.

BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES ON VITAL METALS, WE MUST
ASK YOU TO FOREGO HAVING IPANA SAMPLES JUST NOW IN ORDER TO RELEASH
‘FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE WORK THH TIN WH HAVE ON HAND FOR USB IN MANUFAC-
TURING TUBES. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, HOWEVER, WH SHALL BE HAPPY TO RH-
ESTABLISH TH PRACTICE OF SENDING SAMPLES FOR PUPIL DISTRIBUTION.

Very truly yours,

BRISTOL-MYERS COMPANY

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. (Miss) Marion P. Morris

Director
MPM: ITH Hducational Department