Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-02-06
FASHIONS IN TEETH.
THE LATEST INNOVATION IN PRO-
GRESSVE DENTISTRY.

Making the Tint Suit the Compienion--A
| Dentist Talks 20 Man with an
| Aching Bi-cmspid Teeth for Elderly
| People.
On a steel ring about twice as big as q
key ring, which hangs ON the wall In
| Twenty-third street dentists office, are
about leo human teeth mounted on thin
steel swiyels 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, IL ached 80 bad, stared at
| the ring aud wondered IL IL held trophies
of the Doctors art, and IL the jumping
/ tooth would soon be added TO the collec-
ton. 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, aud the man
/ with the jumping bi-cuspid saw him go
through u maneuver that he thought ex-
ceedingly strange. He stood In front of
his patient and, selecting a tooth from the
ring, he would hold IL by the side Of her
face, and then look at her as though he
were In some impossible way contemplat-
ing the effect Then he would take an
other and go 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
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. II was trying TO find tooth
that would suit her complexion. No, you
needn't laugh. IL isn't Joke. It's the
latest fad In dentistry, and when you
come to understand 1t, yon will wonder
somebody hasn't thought OF IL before.
Haven't yqu occasionally noticed that
somebody whom you have met has set
of false teeth, and you know 1t perfectly
well, though you can't tell whys There
Is something about the appearance of the
| teeth, you don't know what Ii Is, that
tells you, and In 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,
peariy and even. Did you ever guess
| what was the matteri
1.-THE trouble was that the woman's
false teeth, though excellent In every
other way, no doubt, and costing a sum
that probably made her husband vince,
were not OF tint TO suit her complexion.
know OF scores OF women, and no doubt
there are thousands and thousands OF
them I'm New York, who have uncon-
sciously made perfect spectacles OF them
selves that way. Now just think how
woman with black hair and an olive COM
| plexion would look with perfectly white
teeth. The effect IL the ghastliest thing
| you ever saw, when you come to think of
| 1t. Yet I'll bet there are 10000 black
haired women In New York who are
1 wearing false teeth AS white AS u sepul-
chre. Then what would you think OF a
blonde with blue eyes and light hair and
! yellow teeth like thesei That would look
/ nice, wouldn'tits Well, Just notice how
/ many blonde women you see dstigured in
/ Just that way. Think of the spectacle a
red headed woman makes when she opens
her mouth 10 laugh and shows the teeth
some blacksmith OF dentist Lnade as yell
low as South Brooklyn ague victiml 1t
Is dreadful To all persons of cultivated
sensibilities. Dark complexi0ned 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
persons look best with o sort of cleaning
white that il not just n dead white, but
IL not at all yellow.
'sIt,s the same way about the ages OF
people. An old man with q wrinkled
skin and gray hair looks hideous with
white teeth. It's unnatural, and think
i A..4 A.
know that such a man has false teeth,
and Ill made false teeth at that. The
way we do now Is 10 notice the complex
lou carefully, and then strike tint
that agrees with 1t. These teeth that You
see ON the ring are made OF porcelain
They are Of every shade and variety of
tint known 10 the profession. Each one
Il numbered. AZ soon rs we find out the
shade that IL wanted for q customer we
send the number 10 the factory, and the
whole set In made of that tint.
THAT'S considerable advance In the
dentists' art, but IL Is small compared
with some other things that have been
accomplished since the days when false
teeth plate and all. were all carved out
of a solid piece of ivory
when was thatfe
about a century ago There IL such q
set, or, rather, two such sets, one for the
| upper and one for the lower jaw. TINT
were made for George Washington. In the
possession Of New York dentist They
were carved with almost Infinite labog out
Of solid ivory. On eaeh side at the back
were little gold springs that kept pressing
the two sets apart. That prevented their
Slipping out, hut made them terribly tire
some TO the unfortunate man who wore
them, and II 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