The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-02-27
FALSE TEETH.
Made Very CheapIy
in Job Lots.
MOLiRS SOLD FOR A FEW CENTS.
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some FsetS Conserving IN Industry
That Ma orevs 10 Enormous
Propertiens.


Hundreds OF thousands OF artif.
clal teeth are manufactured and
eald every year. What becomes OF
thems 1t 10 like asking wha, be.
comes OF the pins and other things
which are practically indestructi'
BILE
neforu making a guess /, Ia worth
while 20 eonridef how artificial
teeth are made. The story IN told
whistler until he lost one ot his
front teeth by accidental contact
with a behaving pin. For some
time - bemoaned hts lost accom-.
piishment. until he found that he
could whistle very well with an ar
tineiai tooth whitfield out OF n piece
OF wood. when a performance was
desired he would calmly carve out
an inelsor ard put u Ia position.
Then the audience would walt until
the tooth was swelled b, the mois.
tnre Of hts mouth 50 that Il would
not slip out
When plates We're discovered and
IN. expert dentist was able 10 sup.
pts whole tnsuthful OF new teeth.
the teeth themselves we're carved
out % ivory, But constant grinding
would wear away the livery. and
these elephant teeth we're not salts,
factory.
Taday all artificial teeth are male
OF paFesialu and viii aatlast Me.
thnssIah. Those which are known
IA the trade as store teeth. BEING
carried Ia stock by big dental sup.
ply houses. are manufactured In
enormous Quantities
The porcelain material which eor.
tNinA various mineral proportions.
Il worked up like sort OF dough
or plaster. forced Into fnolda aad
fused BY an intense heat In fur.
nasc. Each tonih ~ covered with
enamel metal pins IN The back 20
hold II TO the plate.
In large lots these teeth can be
made very cheapiy. but there II one
item Of expense that cannot BE- over.
ecgne. and that is the cost 81 the
metal holding pin. The only metal
which will stand the Intense hea, 81
OF the porcelain furnace IA plat.
mum. and .ha; costa at the rate ot
cent a pin slmpiy for the rAw mater.
iai. A great deaf OF money has beou
spent in experiments TO discover
some Hahstltute for platinum. but
nothing has re, been found.
CHEAP Teeth ~ the rses.
While a cheap grade OF store
teeth esn be bought for few cents
spieeo. they are no, nearly a. eai'
isfaetory AZ the standard conner.
eiai article which II ussd by mnsg
dentiAfs A big supply company
viii carry hundreds OF samples oi
teeth. all of standard qualities. but
differing generally In sire, shape
and color. In color alone from y
20 100 variasi1as' fsssy b. presented.
hut aa there are people who nrv
not satisfied with ready made cloth.
ing. 80 there are people who are nor
satisfied with ready made teeth.
False teeth may look just ah well
or better than reel ones. but public
speakers. singers. ard other proml'
nent people want their own teeth
reproduced In I'll their peculihritisa.
both o; form and color. and Filings
70 they have them. They want
teeth that cannot he toih as false.
ard they ret them -~uot all ~ once,
perhapa. but one by one. m the orig.
lnals give out.
In teeth that are made to order
nothing IL impossible. from tht
short, .hi,c teeth OF normal youth.
to the long, d.scolored ones OF CT.
IRENE age. and the prices range with
these OF Watches.
The teeth are act In plates OF rub
her. gold. and aluminium. but the
highest achievmcai IL considered 20
be q platinum plate upon which has
been fused a lining of tinted porce-
lain similar 20 that usad for gum
work. Tinted plstes have been
made OF the same material ~ the
teeth. but. as the porcelain shrinks
In the airing. the fitting OF such
plates Ia uncertain.
And nov for the answer TO the
question What becomes OF the old
teeth ?" Sometimes they are Lost.
sometimes stolen, and sometimes
left ne family legacy. Generally,
however. they are buried win the
owner. and lie forever. hidden In
the ground
n II occasionally suggested that
there y quite business ia sScond
hand asise teeth, but II theirs "a
Eaeh 4 traffie II IL not Of large pfet
portions. Secondhand teeth are
valuable only for the platinum wire
they contain. and when they lall IN
to the hands OF the regular teeth
makers they are smashed up 10 get
the platinum out.
Not long ago n man who found a
double set OF teeth went with them
10 a dealer. thinking that he had
prize. Tho finder waa surprised
when the dealer refused 20 make an
offer. and said that ten cents set
was nil they we're worth 10 anyone
but the person whose mouth taey
fitted.
The expensive teeth are no. mar.
ketable, and he marketable teeth
are not expensive. That rs the
whole thing IN n nutshell
Yet teeth have been used over. A
lady went 10 dentist with a set
OF teeth which had belonged 10 her
mother who was dead. She SAID
that she had always admired thove
teeth when her mother wore them,
and now that her own were Roao
abe wanted the old set romounted
for herself.
II was done.
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