Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-11-26
NOVELTIES IN DENTISTRY.
Artificial Teeth HAZE No~ BecomS .
Cheap Luxury:

Cheap Luxury:
1--WE sold one million more false teeth |
last year than we ever disposed OF be- ,
fore in q twelvemonth," said the man |
sger Of the greatest dental srrply es- |
tablishment in the world to Star re- |
porter the other day. ~ don't imagine
that it was becacse people are losing
their teeth more rapidly now than here
tofore, although IL Is unquestiorably
the case that the enduring duality OF
the human chewing APPARATUS has be;
come progressively less from genera
ton to generation in this country. 1t
Is more the fashion now than 1t has
ever been in the past to wear false
teeth. partly for the reason that the
public has come TO realize what excel.
lent substitutes they are for real ones,
and partly owing to the fact that tooth
lessness excites much more disgust than
it did in old times, when such an affic-
tion was commonly observed and was
regarded as unavoidable
'It is very rare to see a person nova
days, whether a man or q woman, visi-
| bly, disfigurcd by the absence of teeth
| Anybody whose grinders fall out will,
| in nearly every case, go to a dental sur
geon and procure artificial ones. They
don't cost much You can get a COM
plete double set for from SO up to s75.
| Probably a fashionable dentist will
charge you the latter price. His mar
| gin of profit is considerable, inasmuch
! as the teeth themselves cost only from
fifteen to eighteen cents apiece They
| are made of porcelain, of kaolin usual
| ly, baked in an oven For the plates
the material best approved is rubber.
The handsomest plates are made of cell
4 4, I,,.,, ~, OF
lightness in weight, but celluloid does
not resist well the acids with which it
comes in contact in the mouth. Alumni
MUM has been tried, but it is affected
by vinegar and salt, as well as other
substances that are eaten, the resul (
being the development of a salt of alu-
| minium, which is thought to be juri-
Gus to the system.
"rhe enamel of artificial teeth is
composed of metallic oxides, and the
finishing processes to which they are
subjected are so delicate that no two
teeth produced can be made exactly
alike in point Of coloring. Among al
the hundreds of thousands of teeth
which we keep in stock, probably NJ
two would match to absolute perfec
| ton. But those that are most nearly
alike are put together SO that the eyt
of nobody but an expert would dctec
any difference.
! After all, natural teeth exhibi
marked dissinilarities in an individual
1t does not do to make false teeth looI
too handsome, lest they appear un
|, natural, and dental surgeons cnmmonl
: carry their imitation of nature SO far a
: TO make teeth, in many instances, loo
more or less defective, the better I
, carry out the deception. What is calle
: bridge work consists in inserting
: false tooth in a gap between two natura
ones in the jaw, fastening il in place b
I gold bands around the adjoining teeth
r Gold crowns are frequently put on oil
: roots nowadays this device having til
advantage that the crown can be readil
: removed at any time for the purpose c
9 keeping the root beneath in good cor
: dition.
I The latest important invention i
:, the line of dentistry is n machine b
2 which steel cxcavating burs are made
Hitherto these delicate little instru
a ments had to be manufactured by hanC
! You can only perceive how very del
= cate they are by examining them III
|; der powerful magnifying glass. I
4 make them by hand was a very labo
e ious process, and not less than six hui
@ dred thousand dollars was spent in e,
perimcnts before the machine for pre-
n ducing them was successfully COZ
q structcd. 1t turns them out with sue
n rapidity that they only cost ten CEN
d apiece now."-Washington Star.