Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-28
FASHIONS IN TEETH.
THE LATEST INNOVATION IN PRO
 GReSSIVE DENTISTRY.

tAaking the Tint Suit the COmplexion-A
 Dentist Talks to Man with an
 Aching Bi-cuspid-Teeth for Elderly
 People.
 On a steel ring about twice as big as key ring, which hangs on the wall in Twenty-thifd street dentsst's office, are about 15O human teeth mounted on thin steel swivels about two inches long. A man who sat in the dentists office the other day, holding with both hands a tooth that he thought was likely to jump out of his head, it ached so bad, stared at the ring and wondered if it held trophies of the doctors art, and if the jumping tooth would soon be added to the collec- tiOn. The dentist in the meantime was holding an animated discussion with a fair woman patient who sat in the big chair of torture. Pretty soon he took the ring of teeth from the wall, and the man with the jumping bi-cuspid saw him go through a maneuver that he thought ex- ceedingly strange. He stood in front of his patient and, selecting tooth from the ring, he would hold it by the side of her face, and then look at her as though hs were in some impossible way contemplat- ing the effect Then be would take an- other and go O'through the same operation Finally he made an entry of some kind in little book, told his patient to come Tuesday, and hung the ring up on the wall again.
 When the man with the bi-cuspid had climbed out of the chair with the fierce edge of his toOthache dulled little by a big wad of savory creosote, he asked the dentist what his curious operation with the castanet of teeth might mean.
 Ut was very simple matter" said the artist of the forceps and the nerve ex- tractor. ''I was trying to find tooth that would suit her complexion. No, you needn't laugh. It isn't a joke. It's the latest fad in dentistry, and when you come to understand it, you will wonder somebody hasn't thought of it before. Haven't you occasionally noticed that somebody whom you have met has a set of false teeth, and you know it perfectly well, though you can't tell why? There is something about the appearance of the teeth, you don't know what it is, that tells you, and in a vaguely unpleasant sort of way, that they are false. You see some otherwise good looking woman laugh, for instance, and the first glimpse you get of her teeth strikes you as disa- greeable, although they may be white, pearly and even. Did you ever guess what was the matter?
 '"The trouble was that the woman's false teeth, though excellent in every otiier way, no doubt, and costing sum that probably made her husband vince, were not of tint to suit her complexion. I know of scores of women, and no dOUbt there are thousands and thousands of them in New York, who have uncon- sciously made perfect spectacles of them selves that way. Now just think how a woman with black hair and an olive con- plexion would look with perfectly white teeth. The effect is the ghastliest thing you ever saw, when you come to think of it. Yet I'll bet there are 10000 black haired women in New York who are wearing false teeth as white as a sepul- chre Then what would you think of a [ londe with blue eyes and light hair and yellow teeth like these? That would look nice, wouldn't it? Well, just notice how many blonde women you see disfgured in just that way. Think of the spectacle a red headed woman makes when she opens her mouth to laugh and shows the teeth some blacksmith of dentist made as yell low as South Brooklyn ague victimi It lO dAl pCloOAo OL NLlAtAN0 0NCO sensibilities. Dark complexioned persons should have teeth of about this shade" showing a yellowish tinted tooth on the ring. Light complexioned persons should have lighter tinted teeth. Red headed l persons look best with sort of gleaming white that is not just @ dead white, but is not at all yellow.
 ''It's the same way about the ages of An old with n yvrinEin6 skin and gray hair looks hideous with white teeth. It's unnatural, and I think that even the East river oysters must know that such a man has false teeth, and i'll made false teeth at that. The way we do now is to notice the complex ion carefully, and then strike a tint that agrees with it. These teeth that you see ou the ring are made of porcelain They are of every shade and variety of tint Known to the profession. Each ono is numbered. As soon as we find out the shade that is wanted for Q customer we send the number to the factory, and the whole set is made of that tint.
 That's a considerable advance in the dentists art, but it is small compared with some other things that have been accomplished since the days when talse teeth, plate and all, were all carved out of solid piece of ivory"
 f'When was that?''
 "AbOut a century ago. There is such a set, or, rather, two such sets, one for the upper and one for the lower jaw. that were made for George Washington, iu the possession of a New York dentist. They were carved with almost infinite labor out of solid ivory. On each side at the back were little gold springs that kept pressing the two sets apart That prevented their slipping out, but made them terribly tire some to the unfortunate man who wore them, and if he ever went to sleep with them in his mouth they pried his mouth open and made him snore. They were very clumsy teeth, we would think, and only to be used on state occasions. ."-New York Commercial Advertiser.