Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-07-16

FALSE TEETH.
Facts About Them ELECTED from Denver
Dentist.

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.
'sWhat Is the average age of persons
who wear false teethp" asked reporter
of q Denver dentist
''From % all the way to 80 years. ]
presume, however, that more persons
wear false teeth after the age of 40 than
before. Ii seems there is a general
weakeningi in the teeth at that age among
o great many persons.
'sIt 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 matterpn
mot 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 a workman until he
is scarcely able to accomplish anything.
They are meyer 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, q set OF
false teeth to look natural should be
rather darker than the natural ones.
'.Who wears false teeth most-men OF
womenp"
''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 r-sex. The beard, too, also acts as
an effectual disguise, so that 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 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 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.n
'.Is there much difficulty in accustom-
ing people to wear false teeth?n
"Yes, indeed. There has to be a
knack acquired TO enable people to eat
with them, and sometimes it is never
accomplished.
ssAll 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, somehow, to
onfswnp Nth .rnrnt -,
not furnished them BY nature. Then,
too. there are those who have gone
without teeth for years, and who thus
Gnd il 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 q new
set OF teeth, and he SO far conquered the
difficulties attending upon their usage
that be was able to 20 out to restau-
rant and eat beefsteak the day after he
put them in his mouth. That was
very remarkable case, however, and
does not happen every day in the
week.
.Why is it that false teeth are so much
cheaper than they used 70 bc?"
''Well, you see, whatever Is scarce is
high. The reason Is obvious enough.
When false teeth were rarity they cost
the customer five or six times as much
money as II 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 materials he could live
very nicely and not make quite SO large
q percentage but, naturally, he doesn't
choose to do s0