Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-04-12
FALSE TEETH.
Facts About Them Elected from q Denver
Dentist.

Dentist.
The Youngest girl on record who ever
wore false teeth is said to have been Just
16 years old. How her teeth came to
fail her so early in life is not known. 1t
is known that she was not great candy
eater. and that so far as could be ascer-
tanned she had always taken admirable
care of her teeth. The dentist who
made her teeth said there must have
been some inherited defect in the forma-
ton of her teeth-something wrong in
the bone structure, the fault in which
could not easily be detected.
"What is the average age of persons
who wear false teeth?" asked reporter
of Denver dentist.
From 25 all the way to so years. l
presume, however, that more persons
wear false teeth after the age of 40 than
weakening in the teeth at that age among
a great many persons.
'.It is pitiful sight, that occasioned
by the loss of teeth in very young peo-
pie. They always feel it so keenly, and
make such earnest efforts to retain every
miserable tooth in their mouths"
'.Do you find that people are reason
able in this matter?"
..Not always. A great many of them
when they find that they must wear
false teeth expect them to be finer than
the originals. Now, anybody who stops
to think knows that dentist can bare
ly approach the standard of excellence
that nature has fixed, to say nothing of
surprising it, but these persons fret and
criticise, and annoy workman until he
is scarcely able to accomplish anything
They are never suited, and one altera-
ton after another has to be made, until
the work is worth about twice the
amount of money it was at first. This
class of people want their teeth as white
as milk, whereas those who have more
intelligence know that their teeth, to
look natural, must not be as white as
pearls nor indeed anything bordering
on such whiteness. In fact, set of
false teeth to look natural should be
rather darker than the natural ones"
"Who wears false teeth most-men or
women?"
''Women, to be sure. Men preserve
| their teeth with their boards and by the
use of tobacco. The latter preserves
them for years, although it disfgures
them to great extent and renders their
mouths anything but attractive to the
fair sex. The beard, too, also acts as
an effectual disguise, SO that a heavily
bearded man who has very bad teeth
never comes to have his teeth fixed un-
less they give him terrible pain, for you
see so far as looks are concerned he is
quite safe in going about with Il mouth
full of old snags.
with women the case is different;
when they speak or smile their teeth
are wholly exposed, and any woman
who values her appearance knows what
it means to have good teeth in her
mouth. Coquettes invariably throw
back their heads and laugh if their teeth
are good, not otherwise. If they are
bad, they contrive somehow not to open
their mouths to any great extent.
when some decide to have new teeth
they are always 10th to part with the
last two or three teeth that are remain
ing in their mouths. and always insist
upon having the teeth inserted to include
those. Now, of course, we can't do any
thing like that, but sometimes it takes a
long time to make the subject clear
enough to customers so that they viii
consent to have these last teeth out
Women hang to their teeth precisely az
they do to their husbands; they dom
give up until the last minute"
''Is there much difficulty in accustom
ing people to wear false teeth?'
Eyes, indeed. There has to be {
knack acquired to enable people to ea
with them, and sometimes it is never
accomplished.
'All persons learn to talk with false
teeth, but there are many who nevel
learn to eat with them For the mos
part these are very old people, who can
not reconcile themselves, somehow, tt
eating with mechanical contrivanc'
not furnished them by nature. Then
too, there are those who have gon
without teeth for years, and who thu
find it difficult to learn the use of new
ones. There was an old man in her
the other day who had not eaten mea
for fifteen years. / made him a nev
set of teeth, and he so far conquered tn
difficulties attending upon their usag
that he was able to go out to a restau
rant and eat beefsteak the day after n
put them in his mouth. That was
very remarkable case, however, ant
does not happen every day in th'
week"
''Why is it that false teeth are so mucl
cheaper than they used to be?"
''Wel, you see, whatever is scarce il
high. The reason is obvious enough
When false teeth were rarity they cos
the customer five or six times as mucl
money as it cost the dentist to max
them; now they are so plentiful that tn
, manufacturers are obliged to make then
cheaper, and the dentist now gets abou
three times as much money back as h
puts into the materials He could liv
very nicely and not make quite so larg
a percentage, but, naturally, he doesn'
choose to do sc"
t ''Do women like the gold to show il
their teeth?''
''Well, | should say SO. There ar,
very few of them who do not put in tha
proviso when they arrange for our ser
vices. There's woman of the
demi-monde east somewhere who il
having her teeth filled with diamonds
That's the newest and latest thing il
dentistry, and | don't mind telling yol
that l think there'l be a rage for i
among the bellies l believe 1 coult
point you to ladies in this very city wht
would gladly adopt this or any othe
silly fashion if they thought it would i'm
prove the appearance of their teeth ant
render their mouths unusually attrac
tive. ."-Denver Iribune-Republicam.