Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-05
FALSE TEETH.
Professional Secrets ELECTED From . Pops
lar Denver Dentist.

wore false teeth is said to have been
lust sixteen years old. How her teeth
came to fail her so early in life is not
known. 1t is known that she was not
a great candy-catcr, and that so far as
could be asccrtained she had always
taken admirable care of her teeth. The
dentist 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 a Denver dentist.
.'From twenty-five all the way to
fifty years. l presume, however, that
more persons wear false teeth after the
age of forty than before. 1t seems
there is Il general weakening in the
teeth at that age among a great many
PERSONS
at is a pitiful sight, that o%ccasioned
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"
s'Do you find that people are reason
able in this matter?n
s'Not 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
Surprising it, but these persons fret
and criticise, and annoy a workman
until he is scarcely able to accomplish
anything. They are never suited, and
pne 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 us white as milk. whereas those
who have more intelligence know that
teeth, to look natural. must not be as
white as pcarIs nor indeed anything
bordering on such Wilderness. In fact,
a set of false teeth to look natural
should be rather darker than the
natural ones"
N"Who weay false teeth zaost-Incn
or women?"
"Women, t2 be sure. Men preserve
their teeth with their boards and by she
use of tobacco. The latter preserves
them for years. although it distigures
them to Il great extent and renders
their mouths anything but attractive TO
the fair SEX. The beard, too. also acts
as an etfectuaE disguise, SCI that %
heavily beardeh mnn who haas,vpry los;G
teeth never comes. to have his teeth
fixed unless they give him terrible pain,
for you sec so Ear as looks arc ott+
cerned he is quite safe in going about
with Il mouthful'of old snaga
"With womeEs the case is different;
when they speak. or smile Sieir teeth
are wholly exposed, and any woman
who values her appearance knows wlaat
it means to have good teeth in. hen
mouth. C%ouquettes invariably throw
back their heaas; and laugh. if. their
teeth are good, aot'othcrwise: If they
are bad, they %contrive somehow no to
open their mouthsto any great eNterls;
'When some decide to lave nssvs
teeth they are always 10th to. part witty
the last two or three teeth that ere
remaining in hair1moutls, and always
insist upon having the teeth inserted to
include those. Now, Of course, VIC
can't do anything like that. but so1ae-
) tiSsncs it takes a long time to make Size
subject clear enough to Customers So
tk3at they will consent to hare these last
teeth out. Women hang tc.their teeth
precisely us theysdo to their husbands;
they don't sgi9e up until the lhst
nlnute."
~~Is there rruoh difficulty, in acsus-
tas1ing people to, wear false teeth?"
Yes, indesGs There las to be a
EzMack acquired to enable people O ea'
/ with them, ara sometimes it is nsRez
accomplishment
..All persona learn to tax with faise
teeth, but there are many who neve,
learn to eat 72it.h chem. .Ar the mos
1sart these are. very old people, w4r.
!, Gan not resonciAe them selves, some.
iAow, to eating with Il me shanical con
mivance net funzaished tllam by nature
Then, too, tklms are these who have
gone withcub'teeth for years, ands who
thus find it, diifieult to le arm the Use o
Hnew ones. There was IN old man ii
= here the cshsH day who had not eater
meat for .sf5e:ass years. / made linn
). ! new set ciHeesh, and le so f;Ir con
qucred thsc difficulties %attendal1: upo,
: their us;age,tlsat he was able to go on
to a restaurant and casa beefsieak; TIL
day afterrhe put them> in his, mouth
That w:asSa' very remarkable case, hoss
ever, arlId0es not happen eyasE day il
the we4Gs."
"sWly.iss 1t that false teetlIi ane. $
% much cheaper than aey use24 to, Ne+s
''WsAl,. you see whatever - scarae
high. The reason IS obvious enough
!" Wher.Ealse teeth acre q sarity the
&c cost THE customer dive or six tinAss +;
muctnnaoney as itseost the. dentist t
make,tlnem; now obey are SO pscntif'
&c that ae manufacturers ara, Obliged
l make, them cheaper, and the denti
ne now gets about dhree tiraes; as mue
TO money back as he puts into, the M;
t~crials. He ccluld live veuy nicely NJ
IS not make quite so large a percentag
h'ys, naturally he doesn'a choose to
s1."
$40 woruen like the gold to show
at sheir teeth?H
oe s.Well, l should say so. There a
very few os them who do not put
5h that proviso when they arrange for o.
WI services. There's q woman East SON
whnrn vrk.,, Is hov;Mot Nav tnoth gil