The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-20
FALSE TEETH.
froioss'ohai Secrets Elected From q Popu-
lar Denver Dentist.

| $500 hOI 81 early Ill lie is not
known. 1t is known that she was not
a great eandy-eater, and that so far as
couid De ascertained she had ALWAYS
taken admirable care of her teeth. The
dentlst who made her teeth said that
there must have been some inherited
defect in the formation 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 twenty-five all the way to
fifty years. presume, however, that
more persons wear false teeth after the
age OF forty than before. 1t seems
there Is general weakening in the
teeth at that age among a great many
persons"
ut is pitiful sight, that occasioned
by the loss of teeth in very young
people. They always feel it so keenly,
and make such earnest efforts to retain
every miserable tooth in the mouth.
'Da You find that people are reason
aSka& tAis"lnatterp"
',fot always. A great many of them
when they find they must wear false
teeth expect them to be finer than the
: originals. Now, anybody who stops
to think knows that a dentist can barely
approach the standard of excellence
that nature has fixed, to say nothing of
h,,+
and criticise, and annoy a workman
until he is scarcely able to accomplish
anything. They are never suited, and
one alteration 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
teeth, to look natural, must not be as
white as pearls nor indeed ANYTHING
bordering on such whiteAess. In fact,
a set of false teeth to look natural
should be rather darker than the
natural ones.
"Who wear 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 disfigures
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 II
heavily bearded man who has very bad
teeth never comes to have his teeth
fixed unless they give him terrible pain,
for you see so far as looks are con-
cerned he is quite safe in going about
with mouthful 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: Couquettes invariably throw
back their heads and laugh if their
| teethare 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 mart with
| the last two or three teeth that are
remaining in their mouths, and always
include those. Now, of course, we
can't do anything like that, but some
times it takes long time to make the
subject clear enough to customers so
that they will consent to have these last
teeth out Women hang to their teeth
precisely as they do to their husbands;
they don't give up until the last
minute"
is there much difficulty in accus-
toming people to wear false teeth?"
Yes, indeed. There has to be a
knack acquired to enable people to eat
with them, and sometimes it is never
accomplished. p"
''All persons learn to talk with false
teeth, but there are many who never
learn to eat with them. For the most
part these are very old people, who
can not reconcile themselves, some
how, to eating with mechanical con-
trivance not furnished them by nature.
Then too, there are those who have
gone without teeth for years, and who
thus find it difficult to learn the use of
new ones. There was an old man in
here the other day who had not eaten
meat for fifteen years. | made him Il
new set of teeth, and he so far con-
quered the difficulties attendant upon
their usage that he.was able to 90 out
to restaurant and eat beefsteak the
day after he put them in his mouth.
That was very remarkable case, how
9ver, and does not happen every day in
the week"
"Why is it that false teeth are so
much cheaper than they used to be?"
''Well, you see whatever is scarce is
hfgn. Inc reason is obvious enough.
When false teeth were rarity they
cost the customer five or six times as
much money as it cost the dentist to
make them; now they are so plentiful
that the manufacturers are obliged to
make them cheaper, and the dentist
now gets about three times as much
money back as he puts into the ma
terlals. He could live very nicely and
not make quite so large a percentage,
but, naturally he doesn't choose to do
so.
"Do woWen like the gold to show in
their teeth?"
"Well, | should say so. There are
very few of them who do not put in
that provso when they arrange for our
services. There's woman East some
where who is having her teeth filled
with diamonds. That's the newest and
latest thing in dentistry, and / don't
mind telling you that | think there II