Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-30
A ToornsoME SUBJECT.

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tAe Use of Imitation Grinders--H osc to
Care for the Pearls that Form Wondn,s
Chief Charm.
The time has gone by when a woman
will permit set of crooked, discolored and
decayed teeth to mar pretty or otherwise
interesting face. A set of beautiful, even
white teeth always attract admiration, and
the French are right in holding to the as
sertion that nobody is positively ugly who
remarkable how much projecting, incisors
driven in and out at intervals like broken
line, will detract from the beauties of com
plexion and feature.So teeth are crooked
because they are crowded out by lack of
room, others for lack of proper attention
permit the accumulation of tartar to spoil
their appearance. Blackness and discol-
Grafton originating from bad digestion
are frequently allowed to pass unheeded,
save by the critical stranger. Some per-
sons are unfortunate enough to have the
two upper front teeth largely developed.
They are called squirrel teeth" because of
their prominence, and in all cases spoil
the facial expression by tending to short
en- the upper lip. When they prelude, as
is often the case, they so far distend the
| lips that it is often impossible to close the
mouth. There is little remedy for this de-
feet, except to keep them scrupulously
clean. Yet with the perfection in dentist
ry it is possible to have a tooth removed
| and the substitute cannot be detected. So
often is this truism verified that ladies
blessed with perfect molars are frequently
provoked into bemoaning this state of af-
| fairs, which gives them no credit for the
genuineness of their charms.
| The fact that the false teeth are incom-
parably better than the real causes most
people to prefer them. 1t is also quite a
common thing to have defective teeth re-
placed by false ones rather than 90 to the
expense of having it filled. But whether
the teeth are real or false the same amount
| of care is necessary, both for their pre-
servation and the purity of the breath.
The simplest method, which, if used
with persistency, is most effective, is to
brush the teeth after every meal if pos
| sible, but certainly night and morning,
using soap and water and a little chalk,
charcoal and magnesia. While the brush
should be firm, stiff one may scratch the
enamel. 1t is we'll to select a
brush with double bristle pads; the
long ridge for the outside and the shorter
| one for the inside Tt is we'll to use
pick, not a quill nor metallic one, however,
| to cleanse the interstices from the lodge
| ment of particles OF food which hasten de-
cay. 1t is customary among people who
| have added the subject of teeth to their
studies, to keep them filed apart or well
| separated. This is accomplished by pass
ing a silken or course linen thread between
them as often as three times day.
Very hot liquids, all acids and most
medicines injure the enamel, and should
be avoided. If essential to the health sip
| them through straw.
Teeth were never intended to knaw hard
candies and calcareous substances, to
| sharpen pencils, crack nuts or serve as a
substitute for a scissors or knife.
The old doctrine that candies and sac
charine matter were injurious to the teeth
has long since been denounced. The only
| injunction placed on food is that it shall
| be pure. Authorizations are as pernicious
to the teeth as to the stomach.
There never was a time when the traffic
in teeth was SO great. People have learned
to heed the care of the teeth earlier than
| formerly, and little folks of less than a
dozen years arc bribed into the dentists
| chairs and forced to renew their visit as
often as every two years.
When teeth are poor by inheritance and
the dentate soft it is like pouring SO much
gold into funnel. In such instances the
expense of filling and the torturous at
tacks with file, drill and freddie insno way
compensate for the lack of durability.
At Wilmington, Del, false teeth fac
tory gets out 100000 of grinders every
four weeks, and the operation is thus
described:
'.Ir the process of manufacture the slick
and feldspar lin their crude state are sub
mltted to red heat, and then suddenly
thrown into cold water, the effect being to
render them m, re easily pulverized. Hav-
ing been ground very fine in water, and
the water evaporated, the two materials
mentioned are dried and sifted The kao-
lin is washed and freed from impurities.
These materials, with feldspar. sponge.
platina and fux in proper proportion for the
enamel, are mixed with water, and worked
into masses resembling putty. This done,
the unbaked porcelain masses are ready
for the molding room. The models are in
two pieces, and are made of brass, one-half
of the teeth or sections being on either side.
The coloring materials are first placed in
| the exact position and quantity required,
and the body of the tooth and the gum is
inserted in Jumps corresponding to the
size of the teeth. The molds are then
closed, and they are dried by slow heat.
When perfectly dry they are taken out and
sent to the trimmers' room. The trim
mers remove imperfections,a and send them
in trays of fire clay to the furnace, where,
having remained for twenty minutes, they
are complete"
| There are numerous establishments in
this city where orders for one or thirty
two teeth are readily filed. The dentist,
after removing the troublesome molar,
makes a cast of it in wax, and from this as
model the order is filed. The better to
dispel suspicion of the counterfeit an in
cision is fled or made in the tooth and
then filled with gold. But with all the
facilities for masticating the food by ar
tifcial processes perfect set of mother
natures pearls is not to be despised.
4 1t pays to take care of them. Next to a
bank account and pure pebble diamonds
nothing is more admired than fine teeth.
A set of glistening worries has caused many
la man to wed girl, and not few girls
have thOuOht men akin to AdOnis because